Executive presence needs to be about how you as a leader show up to work with others, not how you look and perform as a heroic individual. When leaders are working as gardeners, leaders are focusing more on developing others and less on building their own charisma and authority.

For more about what executive presence means in today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, read It’s time to redefine executive presence, published by Forbes.com on June 28, 2018.