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Executive presence training in the UK has a definition problem. The thing it is trying to teach gets described in terms that cannot be taught. Confidence. Gravitas. Charisma. These words gesture at something real, but they offer no entry point. You cannot work toward a feeling you cannot locate, and you cannot measure whether you have arrived. I have been working with executives, barristers, and senior leaders for over twenty years. What I find, consistently, is that peop

A million young people in the UK are not in employment, education or training. The Guardian reported this week on some of them: a former pub manager in Warrington who has applied for two thousand jobs without a single offer; an Oxford languages graduate who can't get past the first round; a 20-year-old in Peterborough sending out forty to fifty applications a month and hearing almost nothing back. The easy explanation is that the economy is hard right now. That's true, but it