THE LEADERSHIP ADVANTAGE : Presence. Influence. Performance.

THE LEADERSHIP ADVANTAGE

Presence. Influence. Performance.

Thursday, 19 November 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM | Nairobi, Kenya

The Leadership Advantage is an immersive executive masterclass designed for CEOs, C-suite executives, Business Leaders, and Heads of Department who want to elevate their presence, strengthen their influence, and lead with greater impact.

This is not another lecture-based leadership programme. It is a practical, highly interactive experience where you will practise new behaviours, receive real-time feedback, and work with experienced coaches to translate insight into action.

Whether you are presenting to the board, leading a critical conversation, articulating a strategic vision, or developing your next generation of leaders, the way you show up matters.

Spend a day strengthening the leadership skills that shape how you are heard, how you influence, and how your people perform.

What You'll Experience

1. Executive Presence: Lead with Gravitas and Influence

Develop the confidence, composure, and credibility to command attention without demanding it. Practise communicating with clarity and authority, managing how you show up under pressure, and ensuring your ideas receive the attention they deserve.

2. Audience Engagement: Make Every Message Matter

Learn to read your audience, adapt your delivery, and hold attention. Strengthen your ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, present with conviction, and move people from understanding to action.

3. Executive Storytelling: Turn Ideas into Influence

Great leaders do more than share information; they make ideas meaningful. Learn to structure compelling stories, connect with audiences, simplify complex messages, and communicate a vision that builds trust, inspires belief, and motivates action.

4. Coaching as a Leadership Practice: Develop People Who Deliver

Move beyond solving every problem yourself. Learn when to coach, direct, advise, or collaborate. Practise active listening, ask more powerful questions, and apply the GROW framework to strengthen accountability, ownership, and individual performance.

Your Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 AM | Warm-Up: Connect and Engage

Begin with interactive exercises designed to energise the room, challenge familiar habits, and establish a learn-by-doing environment.

9:30 – 11:00 AM | Executive Presence: Lead with Gravitas and Influence

Build confidence, credibility, and composure. Practise communicating with clarity and authority in high-stakes situations where how you show up matters as much as what you say.

11:00 – 11:15 AM | Morning Break

11:15 AM – 1:00 PM | Engage Your Audience: Make Every Message Matter

Strengthen your ability to capture attention, adapt your delivery, and communicate persuasively in boardrooms, strategic presentations, and everyday leadership conversations.

1:00 – 2:00 PM | Lunch and One-on-One Executive Coaching

Enjoy lunch alongside opportunities for individual coaching conversations with Austin Walker and our Kenyan coaches. Bring a leadership challenge, explore a professional development goal, or gain a fresh perspective on an issue you are navigating.

2:00 – 3:00 PM | Tell Captivating Stories: Turn Ideas into Influence

Discover how to make your ideas memorable through compelling storytelling. Learn to simplify complex messages, connect with your audience, and communicate your vision in ways that build trust and inspire action.

3:00 – 3:10 PM | Afternoon Break

3:10 – 4:10 PM | Coaching as a Leadership Practice: Develop People Who Deliver

Explore when to coach, direct, advise, or collaborate. Practise active listening, powerful questioning, and the GROW framework to turn everyday conversations into opportunities for development, accountability, and stronger performance.

4:10 – 4:30 PM | Reflection, Application and Close

Consolidate your insights, identify specific actions, and leave with practical strategies to apply in your leadership and team interactions.

What You'll Walk Away With

By the end of the masterclass, you will have practical tools to help you:

• Strengthen your executive presence — project greater confidence, credibility, and composure.
• Communicate with influence — engage audiences, articulate ideas clearly, and make your message count.
• Tell stories that move people — turn information into compelling narratives that inspire belief and action.
• Develop people who deliver — use coaching conversations to build accountability, confidence, and ownership.
• Apply insights to your own leadership — gain individual coaching perspectives and identify actionable areas for growth.

The LifeHikes Difference

LifeHikes uses an experiential learning methodology that gets leaders actively involved rather than simply listening. Through repeated practice, real-time feedback, and reinforcement, participants develop behaviours they can apply in real leadership situations.

With 1,600,000+ leaders trained across 1,200+ companies in 47 countries, LifeHikes brings a proven, practice-led approach to leadership and communication development.

Meet Your Coach: Austin Walker

Head Coach, LifeHikes

Austin Walker is an executive life coach and facilitator who helps leaders strengthen their communication, executive presence, and personal effectiveness.

A former global top sales achiever in the technology sector and founder of RAW Coaching, Austin combines practical business experience with a strong focus on behavioural development.

Since joining LifeHikes in 2018, he has coached senior leaders at Mastercard, IBM, Meta, and Universal Pictures. He also leads a partnership with the Mastercard Foundation to train 12,000 young people across Africa by 2027.

Austin's work focuses on executive presence, communication under pressure, and leadership resilience, helping leaders move beyond theory to practise the behaviours that make a measurable difference.

Who Should Attend?

This masterclass is designed for:

• CEOs and Business Owners
• C-suite Executives and Senior leadership teams
• Heads of Department and Functional leaders
• Partners, directors, and senior professionals & Leaders responsible for developing people and driving organisational performance

What to bring: A willing spirit to learn and connect, Also a charged phone, please arrive ready to start at 9:00 AM. To make the most of the experience, keep your laptop away and come prepared to participate, practise, and engage.

Important Information

The event may be recorded for service improvement, quality assurance, internal training, and publicity, subject to applicable consent and privacy requirements. Unauthorised recording or photography of the training session and protected materials is not permitted. Event materials remain subject to applicable intellectual property rights.