The EQ blind spot: What senior leaders get wrong about executive presence

Every leader wants stronger executive presence. Most start in the wrong place. Bates, a company acquired by BTS, built the only scientifically validated model of executive presence: The Bates ExPI™. With 90 items across 15 facets, tested with thousands of leaders, BTS used AI analysis to surface the three patterns that keep showing up across these reports:

1. Leaders overestimate how much their own expertise matters.

2. Their stakeholders rank emotional intelligence as the top driver and the top detractor of presence.

3. Men and women each misread their own biggest blind spots, in different ways.

The leaders who most need this feedback are usually the ones most convinced they already have executive presence figured out. This paper breaks down the data.

Download now to see where your own blind spots might sit, and what closing the gap does for your team.