Your Presence IS Your Impact.™
How you show up shapes everything — the room, the decision, the team, the result, even how you feel. Leadership advisor, keynote speaker, and author Anese Cavanaugh (that's me!) helps leaders lead from grounded, intentional presence — not reactivity. The outcome? Solid business results, inspiring leadership (that creates more leaders), workforce and customer trust, innovation that takes risks, and a human-centered culture that knows how to lead and partner with AI, chaos, and flux. (Bonus: your family benefits too.)
24+ years advising and coaching executives, founders, athletes, and teams · creator of the IEP Method® · founder of the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative® · author of five books(+) · columnist for Inc. · podcast host · ceo, entrepreneur, and founder who's held every role in the company at some point, bodybuilder, avid learner, dog rescuer, mom, daughter of God · leads by intuition, grit, grace, gratitude, practice, wisdom, discernment, and years of doing it wrong, finding the lessons, and transmuting all for good...
- Harvard Business Review
- Forbes
- The New York Times
- Inc.
- Fast Company
- Investor's Business Daily
- Financial Times
- Goss Magazine
- Psychology Today
- Business Insider
- SmartBrief
- Apple News
What if alignment, vitality, and presence — not output — are the leadership skills that matter most today? What if these are THE key levers that amplify your output and impact? Wouldn't that be something?
Sustainable leadership isn't about doing more. It's about how you show up — your vitality, your alignment, your presence, your integrity. The leaders who last (and create environments for others to shine) aren't the ones who grind hardest; they're the ones who know how to manage and project their energy when the stakes are high. They understand that the "soft stuff" is key to inspiring trust, connection, loyalty, creativity, and healthy nervous systems. And they get that the stewardship of leadership is one of the greatest privileges and response-abilities that they will ever have with their lives.
Your intentions, energy, and presence shape everything. Deliberate action with grounded presence is what makes solid, sustainable results happen.
Awareness is the first step. What you do with it is where the leadership comes in.
"Anese's work isn't theory — it's the operating system underneath how we show up for our people. It changes rooms."
"Anese has been an invaluable teacher and partner. Her work on presence and energy is some of the most practical leadership work I've encountered in 40 years of business."
"She gives leaders tools they actually use — on Monday morning, in the hard conversation, in the moment it matters."
The IEP Method®
Intentional Energetic Presence® is the practical, repeatable framework behind the methodology that transforms leadership impact. A way to notice, manage, and shift your presence in real time, in real situations. Not inspirational fluff — embodied, working leadership practice.
The beauty of this methodology is this: when you make sure your IEP is right, any skill, conversation, or practice becomes that much more effective and more likely to create the impact you desire. When you couple solid IEP with solid leadership skills and strategy, you elevate the game. Of course, your IEP is just part of the equation. But it is foundational and once we have that humming, the bigger challenges get handled more easefully, powerfully, and effectively.
- 01Recognize your energetic state before it drives your decisions
- 02Reset your presence in moments that matter
- 03Lead from clarity instead of reactivity
- 04Build internal peace and alignment no matter what's happening externally
- 05Couple solid IEP with effective leadership skills, strategy, and communication
- 06Create the conditions where people do their best work
- 07Build your innovation, culture, and business results in a way that's inspiring, sustainable, and healthy
- 08Once you have your IEP solid and in practice, every other business and people challenge becomes easier to tend to
- 09Bring it home with you, your family, spouse, partner, and kid's soccer coach will be glad you did
"Presence isn't a soft skill. It's the leadership skill that makes every other skill land — in the room, in the conversation, in the result."
On your stage. From the page.
In your leadership.
Three doors into the same body of work — one built over two decades with leaders who carry a lot and want to carry it well.
Keynotes & Team Talks
Opening and closing keynotes, leadership offsites, and team sessions that leave people with language and tools they actually use on Monday morning.
Invite me to speakPrivate Advisory
Deep, confidential 1:1 work with senior leaders and founders — and select organizational engagements. Limited engagements each year, by application.
Apply to work privatelyBooks, Podcast & Column
Three books, the "Showing Up" column for Inc., the Your Presence IS Your Impact podcast, and Substack essays — the work, wherever you are.
Explore the workFor the leader whose presence sets the tone for everyone else.
A small number of confidential, high-touch engagements each year — CEOs, founders, and senior leaders navigating scale, succession, reinvention, or the quiet cost of carrying it all. Deep work on how you show up, what you're building, and who you're becoming while you do it.
24+ years helping leaders lead with clarity, humanity, and impact.
I created the IEP Method® to help people have more impact and feel good doing so. I believe in it deeply. It's been incredibly helpful to me and any clients who've applied it. I love this work. As I've grown with it, so has the nuance of it all, and along the way, new frameworks, principles, and structures to support human beings in being and feeling better have emerged. I hope you'll join me in leadership. Because we need excellent leaders to move us into the next chapters of humanity.
About MeTake the work with you.
Beyond the stage and the page — Anese shares the practice in real time, through the podcast and her Substack.
Your Presence IS Your Impact
Candid conversations and practical tools on presence, energy, leadership, and what it really takes to show up well — with the leaders, founders, and thinkers doing the work. New episodes wherever you listen.
Anese on Substack
Essays, notes, and reflections on what it takes to show up well — on the page, in real time.
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