Elevate - Your Executive Edge
Be Seen as Ready for the Next Level
A 6-week Leadership Influence Accelerator for senior leaders and executives
You’ve already proved you can perform.
Now it’s about how you’re experienced as a leader.
Elevate helps you strengthen your executive presence, communication and influence — so you create confidence with the right people and are seen as ready for greater responsibility.
- Next Round starts in October 2026
- Investment: $2,997 AUD
Elevate - Your Executive Edge
Be Seen as Ready for the Next Level
A 6-week Leadership Influence Accelerator for senior leaders and executives
You’ve already proved you can perform.
Now it’s about how you’re experienced as a leader.
Elevate helps you strengthen your executive presence, communication and influence — so you create confidence with the right people and are seen as ready for greater responsibility.
- Next Round starts in October 2026
- Investment: $2,997 AUD
You’re delivering.
But Are You Being Experienced as Ready for More?
At senior levels, performance is expected.
You’ve built the expertise. You know how to deliver. You’ve earned your seat at the table.
But the skills that got you here aren’t necessarily the skills that will take you to the next level.
Because as you become more senior, people are making judgements about your leadership capability in the moments that matter.
Someone challenges your recommendation.
A senior stakeholder pushes back.
You’re asked a question you weren’t expecting.
You need to disagree with someone more powerful than you.
You have 30 seconds to make your point.
The room is divided and people look to you.
What happens next sends signals.
How you communicate.
How you respond under pressure.
Whether you hold your position.
Your tone. Your body language. Your composure.
Whether you can influence the direction of the conversation.
Whether others trust your judgement.
Individually, these moments can seem small.
Collectively, they shape how you’re experienced as a leader.
And whether the right people see you as ready for what’s next.
Being Ready Isn't Enough.
You need the right people to experience you as ready.
That’s where leadership influence becomes critical.
It’s not about being louder.
It’s not about becoming more charismatic.
And it’s certainly not about becoming someone you’re not.
It’s about deliberately strengthening how you show up, communicate and influence — particularly when the stakes are high.
Because at senior levels, your ability to create confidence in your leadership becomes just as important as your ability to deliver.
Introducing The Leadership Influence System
Elevate is built around The Leadership Influence System — Sarah Makris’ practical framework for strengthening how you’re experienced as a leader.
Over six weeks, you’ll learn how to recognise and deliberately shape the signals you send through your:
Presence
Communication
Strategic Messaging
Response Under Pressure
Stakeholder Influence
Leadership Presence
And you’ll apply what you’re learning directly to the situations you’re navigating at work, right now.
This isn’t leadership theory.
It’s about changing how you operate in the meetings, conversations and high-stakes moments that shape how others experience you.
Designed to change how you’re experienced — in the moments that matter at work.
This is about how you communicate, contribute, and influence in real time — in meetings, conversations, and high-stakes situations.
Through practical frameworks and immediate application, you’ll upgrade how you operate day-to-day — so you’re not just contributing, you’re leading.
Each week, you apply what you learn directly in your role — refining how you communicate, how you hold the room, and how you influence outcomes.
No theory.
No waiting.
This is about changing how you’re experienced — now.
- Communicate with clarity and authority — without over-explaining
- Contribute with confidence in high-stakes moments
- Be taken seriously at the level you’re operating
- Be the person others look to when it matters
- Build trust quickly with senior stakeholders
- Shape conversations and influence outcomes
- Speak so people so people listen
- Shape conversations and influence outcomes
How you’ll show up differently — week by week.
Each week focuses on one shift that changes how you’re experienced — in meetings, conversations, and decisions.
Week 1 - Presence
Control the signals you send
Understand how you're currently being experienced and the spoken and unspoken signals that shape people's perception of your leadership.
Learn how to regulate your presence so you show up composed, confident and in control — rather than adjusting yourself to everyone else in the room.
Week 2 - Communication
Say less. Land more.
Communicate with greater clarity and authority.
Learn how to make your point without circling it, over-explaining, softening your message or disappearing into unnecessary detail.
Because at senior levels, how you communicate your thinking matters.
Week 3 - Strategic Messaging
Make your thinking easier to follow
Learn how to structure and articulate your ideas at an executive level.
You'll strengthen your ability to get to the point, communicate the strategic significance and make your message easier for senior stakeholders to understand, remember and act on.
Week 4 - Moments that Matter
Hold your own when the pressure is on Someone pushes back. You're challenged unexpectedly. There's disagreement in the room. You need to hold a position with someone more powerful than you. Learn how to respond to challenge, disagreement and unexpected questions without becoming defensive, retreating, over-explaining or losing your authority.
Week 5 - Strategic Influence
Build confidence with the people who matter.
Not everyone has equal influence over your success.
Learn how to identify the stakeholders who matter, understand the dynamics around you and deliberately build the credibility, trust and strategic relationships that increase your ability to influence outcomes.
Week 6 - Leadership Action
Be experienced as ready
Bring everything together. Presence. Communication. Judgement. Influence. Relationships. You'll develop a clear plan for how you want to show up going forward — so you're consistently experienced as someone capable of operating at greater scale and responsibility.
What Changes When You Elevate Your Leadership Influence?
You stop second-guessing how you’re coming across.
You make your point without over-explaining.
You stay composed when challenged.
You contribute with greater authority in senior conversations.
You understand how to read the dynamics around you.
You build stronger relationships with the people who matter.
You become more deliberate about the signals you’re sending.
You don’t simply participate in important conversations.
You help shape them.
And the right people begin to experience you differently.
Why Elevate Works:
It's Applied to Your Actual Role
You don't learn something on Friday and hope you remember it six months later.
Every week, you'll apply what you're learning to the meetings, conversations, stakeholders and leadership situations you're navigating right now.
It Makes Executive Presence Tangible
Executive presence can feel vague.
Elevate breaks it down into the behaviours and signals that shape how other people experience you — so you know exactly what to work on.
It Focuses on the Moments That Matter
Leadership capability is often judged when things aren't going perfectly.
When you're challenged.
When there's ambiguity.
When someone disagrees.
When the stakes increase.
Elevate helps you develop the presence, communication and influence to lead effectively in those moments.
It Builds Influence Where It Matters
You don't need everyone in the organisation to think you're brilliant. You need to build confidence with the right people. Elevate helps you understand who matters, how influence actually works and how to strengthen your credibility with the people who shape important decisions.
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Who Is This For?
Elevate is designed for senior leaders and executives who are already accomplished — but know their next level requires something different.
It’s for you if you:
- Know you're capable of operating at a higher level but aren't sure the right people see it yet
- Want stronger executive presence without becoming performative or inauthentic
- Need greater influence with senior executives, peers or key stakeholders
- Want to communicate with greater clarity and authority
- Find yourself over-explaining, holding back or second-guessing yourself
- Want to handle pushback and challenge more effectively
- Need to move from being valued primarily for execution to being trusted for your leadership and judgement
- Want to be seen as ready for greater responsibility
What You Get:
6 Weeks of Live Leadership Development
Six live group sessions with Sarah focused on practical application, feedback and implementation.
The Leadership Influence System
A structured framework to help you strengthen your presence, communication and influence.
Practical Frameworks & Tools
Scripts, frameworks, exercises and tools you can use immediately in your role.
Real-World Application
Apply what you're learning to the actual meetings, stakeholder conversations and leadership situations you're navigating each week.
Session Recordings
Access the sessions and program resources for 12 months.
About Sarah Makris
Sarah Makris is an Executive Positioning Advisor and Career Strategist who works with senior leaders and executives to strengthen their influence, communication and leadership presence.
Before establishing her advisory practice, Sarah spent more than 20 years working in senior corporate communications roles, advising CEOs and executive teams and operating in complex, high-stakes corporate environments.
Today, she brings that experience to helping leaders understand not simply what they’re saying — but how they’re being experienced by the people around them.
ELEVATE
Your next level isn’t about proving you can work harder.
It’s about strengthening how you’re experienced when it matters.
How you communicate.
How you influence.
How you respond under pressure.
How you build confidence with senior stakeholders.
And ultimately, whether the right people trust you to operate at greater scale and responsibility.
Elevate gives you six weeks to deliberately strengthen it.
Next Round: October 2026
Investment: $2,997 AUD
6 live sessions | Leadership Influence System | Practical tools & frameworks | 12 months’ access
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Elevate suitable if I'm already a senior executive?
Yes. Elevate isn’t about teaching basic leadership skills. It’s designed for experienced leaders who want to refine how they communicate, influence and operate in increasingly senior and high-stakes environments.
Is this an executive presence program?
Executive presence is an important part of Elevate, but it’s only part of the picture.
Elevate looks more broadly at leadership influence — how you communicate, the signals you send, how you handle pressure, how you build strategic relationships and your ability to influence people and decisions.
How practical is the program?
Very.
You’ll apply what you’re learning directly to situations you’re navigating at work — from important meetings and stakeholder conversations to pushback, presentations and high-stakes leadership moments.
What if I can't attend every session live?
Sessions are recorded and you’ll have 12 months’ access to the program materials.
How long is the program?
Elevate runs for six weeks, with one live session each week.
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Now it’s time to make sure that capability is being seen, heard and experienced by the people who matter.
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