Executive Legibility for CISOs
Show up in the room. Show up on the page. Show up in the market.
Making Your Leadership Legible
Executive Legibility is structured one-on-one coaching for cybersecurity leaders who need their leadership to be seen and understood at the right altitude. Where executive presence is about how you show up once you’re in the room, executive legibility is about whether others can clearly recognize your intent, value, and fit—on the page, in the market, and in the minds of decision-makers—before you speak.
This isn’t résumé polish or branding spin. It’s authentic self-translation that closes the gap between how you operate and how others perceive your value in high-stakes decisions.
Why It Matters
Most security leaders try to prove themselves through detail and volume—dense résumés, long lists of credentials, endless proof points. Executive audiences don’t read for detail; they read for clarity. They want to see how you lead, what you influence, and where you fit in existing decision structures.
Executive legibility shifts the focus from what you’ve done to how you operate, and from everything that’s true to what must be visible. It’s not polish or performance—it’s making your leadership readable at the altitude where decisions are made.
What We Do
The work is tailored but practical:
Translate how you lead into language decision-makers recognize.
Position your experience with clarity, not volume.
Navigate opportunities without borrowed scripts.
Balance technical depth with executive stance.
Test and refine market fit if you’re building a business.
Build trust and visibility without cold outreach or gimmicks.
Structure engagements and decisions around sustainability.
The aim: making your leadership legible—before, during, and after you’re in the room.
What You Leave With
A clear edge positioning in your company or the market.
A framework to evaluate opportunities and decisions.
A philosophy of self-translation you can apply everywhere—résumés, bios, LinkedIn, or investor decks.
Tools to overcome the resistance that blocks accurate framing of your leadership.
This isn’t about waiting to be picked. It’s about becoming clear enough that the right people can’t miss you.
Getting Started
The first step is a conversation. We’ll look at how your leadership is currently perceived, where clarity is missing, and what needs to become visible.
Looking for support on how you show up once you’re already in the room? Explore executive presence for focused work on authority, influence, and leadership in action.