Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Is Your Energy Lifting the Room or Weighing It Down #shorts

9 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Susan Drumm delivers a short coaching monologue about how a leader's internal state shapes a room's atmosphere. She advises leaders to look inward when the team feels off (low energy, tension, confusion) and to practice self-regulation—arriving grounded, clear, and connected—because people 'rise to presence' rather than pressure. Practical cues: pause before speaking, check your state, and lead from alignment not adrenaline so the room will 'rise with you.'

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If the room feels off. Low energy, tension, confusion. Don't just look around, look inward. Because the fastest way to shift a room is to shift yourself. Leaders often try to fix the team without checking in to their own state. But your presence sets the emotional tone. People don't rise to pressure. They rise to presence. And when you regulate yourself, when you walk in, grounded, clear, connected, that's the energy they sync to. So before you speak, before you solve, pause, where are you right now? Because your energy is in the invitation. Lead from alignment, not adrenaline. And watch the room rise with you.