Executive Presence · Leadership Communication
Executive Presence · Leadership Communication
What journalists know about executive presence when pressure hits.
Lenn Almadin Thornhill · Journalist
I invited Lenn into this conversation because I worked beside her in a Trinidad newsroom more than a decade ago. Even then, she did something the rest of us were still figuring out. She could hold a story without performing it. The composure leaders pay consultants to teach, journalists like Lenn practice every night under the red light.
"The first thirty seconds in any room decide what the next thirty minutes are allowed to be."
Episode Cold Open · Samantha J. Best
Award-Winning Journalist · Multimedia Storyteller
Lenn Almadin Thornhill is an award-winning journalist, writer, and multimedia storyteller with extensive experience in breaking news, legal reporting, and human-interest features. Her on-air work has spanned major media organisations including Newsmax, Court TV, Fox News, ABS-CBN News, CCN TV6 and TTT in the Caribbean, and the Bilyonaryo News Channel.
She is a recipient of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union Award for Best Feature Report and a Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Fellow. Her specialisations include investigative reporting, broadcast scriptwriting, and editorial production across television and digital platforms.
Why the first three seconds on camera decide everything, and what most leaders never train for.
The Fifth Avenue moment that shaped how Lenn handles every high-pressure assignment since.
The one broadcast trick that calms any room, used by pros every night that almost no leadership coach teaches.
Why charisma alone is the disguise, not the discipline, and how the journalists always know.
The Q&A muscle nobody builds until it is too late, and what to do instead.
Why Lenn rejects the framing of "dumbing it down" for any audience that is not your industry.
The empathy move Obama mastered that technical leaders should borrow before their next crisis.
"Pause as a speaker. Just pause for a couple of seconds, look at the room, and respond."
Lenn Almadin Thornhill · Vol. 004
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