Frederick Gilbert's book "Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations" shows you how to handle presentations to top-level executives. As a project manager, there will be times when you need to make presentations to high-level executives. But presentations to those in the C-Suite are very different than those to your project team. It's critical that you're well prepared for getting your message across skillfully to this distinct audience. In this episode I quickly run through Gilbert's “7 Deadly Challenges” of executive meetings, and how to handle them. You'll be far more poised and ready to make a great impression on even the toughest top-tier executive.