Building Executive Presence for Senior ICs
ProLeap shadows your meetings, discovers blind spots, proposes improvement roadmap, and tracks progress
Observation
The PM left feeling stupid and blocked, rather than informed and supported. You successfully proved the system is complex, but you failed to prove you are a partner in solving the problem.
You rejected solutions based on technical constraints without offering a viable alternative path until forced. The PM felt like they were fighting the engineering team to get a feature shipped, rather than collaborating on how to ship it safely.
Blindspot
You may also have been using "Accuracy First" logic — believing that being technically precise was more important than being directionally helpful.
Shift Needed
Shift from "The Gatekeeper" to "The Strategic Partner."
"No, that breaks the Thrift definition."
"To get you that 20-minute buffer without crashing the app, I need 3 days to update the core logic. Is that timeline acceptable for Friday?"
