Executive presence coaching for the meetings you already run.
Presence is a set of trained behaviors, and you practice them every week in rooms nobody reviews. GameTape is a Mac app that records the meetings you choose and hands back the ones worth a second look. $95 a month.
You choose which meetings to record. Meeting audio goes to a transcription provider; screenshot fallbacks use an AI provider. Review capture and privacy controls.
Behavior you can review.
Presence shows up as behavior, and behavior leaves a record.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett writes about executive presence in Harvard Business Review. She names three parts: gravitas, strong communication and the right appearance.
Jess Todtfeld coaches presence in New York. He puts the same idea in working terms.
Executive presence is a set of observable, trainable behaviors: how you open, how you pause, where your eyes go, how you hold pressure.
Observable means reviewable. You already ran this week's meetings, so the material exists.
GameTape records the meetings you choose. The next morning it hands back the ones worth a second look.
Sources: Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Harvard Business Review, January–February 2024 and Success in Media. Both accessed 8 September 2026.
Start with one room.
Presence changes with the room, so the behavior worth practicing changes too.
A board update asks you to hold a line under pressure. A customer question asks you to answer it. A hard 1:1 asks you to leave space.
Pick the room that matters this quarter. Work on that one. A 1:1 gets a different read from an investor call.
The meeting review hub covers the wider loop, from the record to the follow-up.
What the review actually says.
Every number here compares you with your own median for that meeting type.
Series A partner call · 10:30am. You asked 2 questions in this partner meeting against your usual 6.
Weekly team sync · 2:00pm. You held 64% of the airtime in this team meeting against your usual 41%.
1:1 with Sam · 4:00pm
An illustrative morning in GameTape's review format. Your rows are built from your own tape.
The third row carries no finding, and most meetings carry none. GameTape stays quiet when a meeting sits inside your usual range.
One behavior at a time.
Change one thing, then check the next meeting of that type.
Record the room. You choose which meetings GameTape records, and you can pause it from the menubar.
Read the finding. One meeting and one measurement, set against your own record for that meeting type.
Change one thing. Ask before you answer. Stop at two minutes. Hand the next decision an owner.
Check it next week. The same measurement runs on your next meeting of that type.
Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan measured 86,000 survey responses. They came from 11,480 managers at eight companies. The leaders who talked about their goals with colleagues and then followed up improved. The leaders who skipped that step showed gains close to chance.
Source: Goldsmith and Morgan, “Leadership Is a Contact Sport”. Accessed 8 September 2026. A finding about follow-up in leadership development, not a test of GameTape.
Ask for the number before you book.
Of the five providers checked, one publishes a price.
Success in Media publishes a range of $1,000 to $15,000 by scope and format. KNP Communications, Maxwell Leadership, Eve Coaching and Amy Eliza Wong publish no price. You ask for a quote.
Ask what one session costs. Ask how many you get. Ask what happens between them.
Jess Todtfeld / Success in Media
Executive Presence Coaching: $1,000–$15,000 stated engagement range.
Virtual sessions or in-person intensives; scope by quote. Follow-up and between-session review depend on scope.
Provider-stated range; request an exact quote. Cancellation not specified on the cited page.
Provider source · Accessed 2026-09-08.
KNP Communications
Private Executive Presence Coaching: Not published on the cited page.
One-to-one coaching; cadence not specified. Between-session support not specified on the cited page.
Contact provider for price, scope and cancellation.
Provider source · Accessed 2026-09-08.
Selected examples, not a market average or a ranking. Amounts use the provider's dollar notation; confirm currency and taxes. Older rate sheets need reconfirmation. Missing terms mean the cited page does not specify them. Download all eight offers and the sampling method (JSON).
GameTape costs $95 a month. It covers the working days in between. Compare coaching costs and session arithmetic before you commit to a package.
Prices read from each provider's own page on 8 September 2026. Maxwell Leadership, Eve Coaching and Amy Eliza Wong were checked for a published price and carried none; they are not in the offer sample above.
Where a presence coach still wins.
A great deal. If a presence coach is within reach, hire one.
A presence coach sets up the practice. They film a baseline. They name the two behaviors costing you the most authority. They run the exercise until the change shows on camera. That is coaching. At $1,000 to $15,000 you are paying for it.
Todtfeld's own page puts lasting change at one to three sessions plus practice between them. That practice is yours to run.
GameTape covers that stretch. It reviews the rooms you were already in. It measures the behavior against your own record. Bring a row to your next session and decide together what to try.
You control your tape.
You choose what goes on the tape, and you can stop it from the menubar.
GameTape uses macOS accessibility for text observation. A screenshot fallback goes to our AI provider for description. It covers the few surfaces accessibility misses. The provider then deletes it. No screenshot reaches GameTape servers. You choose which meetings to record and you can pause observation. See how →
GameTape counts your airtime, your questions and your longest unbroken stretch. It flags a decision that left the room with no owner. It cannot tell you how the room felt about you. Ask the people who were there.
Straight answers.
Executive presence coaching is one-to-one work on how you come across as a leader. Coaches work on your voice, your body language and how you hold pressure. Ask what the sessions cover and who they suit.
Most providers quote for the work. Success in Media publishes $1,000 to $15,000, by scope and format. KNP Communications, Maxwell Leadership, Eve Coaching and Amy Eliza Wong publish none. Prices checked 8 September 2026. Ask for the session count and the terms in writing.
It depends on the behavior and how often you practice. Success in Media puts lasting change at one to three sessions plus practice between them. Pick one behavior. Try a change and ask the room whether it helped.
Yes, up to a point. You can review your own meetings and pick one thing to change. A coach adds judgment, live feedback and rehearsal. GameTape gives you the material and a measure against your own past meetings. Many people run both.
No. GameTape reports counts from a meeting you recorded: your airtime and your questions. It flags a decision that ended with no owner. Each count compares you with your own past meetings of that type. There is no presence score and no industry average.
$95 a month. The first week is free.