The Charisma Edge

A How-To Guide for Turning On Your Leadership Power. Describes 101 specific, repeatable, practical tips you can practice to get powerful executive presence and charisma. Outlines a 9-week program for development, including how to look, act and feel like a charismatic leader, and describes the underlying physical and psychological wiring of confidence, based on current neurological and body language research.

Provides insight on how to create an immediate, compelling connection with important people around you to move your mission and vision forward.

Topics include:
How to LOOK like a Charismatic Person
-- Charismatic Posture: How to stand and walk like a leader to be seen immediately
-- Charismatic Pants, Pearls and Piercings: Interpreting tribal rules around attire and appearance to create instant affiliation

How to ACT like a Charismatic Person
-- Charismatic Positions: Making powerful gestures and expressions that keep others paying attention
-- Charismatic Pairing: Developing a handshake and using physical contact to connect you with others
-- Charismatic Pitch: Learning to use the power of your voice to be heard as a significant person
-- Charismatic Pronunciation: Using he articulation of leaders so that each word gets its appropriate meaning across
-- Charismatic Prose: Choosing the right words to create a compelling message

How to FEEL like a Charismatic Person
-- Charismatic Poise: Mastering your adrenaline and nerves to stay focused and on track
-- Charismatic Person: Developing the attitude and identity of a leader and creating an internal role for success.

The book also contains two Charisma Assessment Surveys and information about the ways which our natural human physical systems derail or help us become more centered, focused and able to move our purpose forward.

Cynthia Burnham, called a "charisma coach" by her clients, bases her information on lessons learned over 30 years as an independent and corporate business person, including Senior Vice President, Director of Employee Relations and Learning for UBS Financial Services (formerly PaineWebber), sales and sales management with Duracell and Gillette, and executive coaching and training assignments with companies such as Sony, Merrill Lynch, State Farm Insurance, Illumina, Amoco, Northrop Grumman and others.