In this episode of Keynote Expert Voices, Keynote Speaker & Presence Strategist, Founder of The Theatre of Leadership® - Simone de Haas - explores what happens in the critical moment just before leaders step into visibility, when doubt meets authority.
Drawing on more than four decades in theatre direction, performance psychology, and storytelling, Simone shares why leadership presence is not about confidence or charisma, but about how we arrive in the moment.

Simone explores how leaders unintentionally drift into “performing” competence - rushing, over-explaining, or trying to prove themselves - and why this weakens connection. Instead, she offers a different model of leadership: grounded presence, relational awareness, and the ability to settle a room before speaking.

A powerful reminder that influence begins not with performance, but with presence.

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Season 1: The Nine Archetypes is a mythic-modern journey through nine feminine archetypes inspired by Shakespeare’s women and the deeper dramaturgy of the feminine psyche.

This season is an intimate descent into identity, voice, lineage, and becoming.

A season for women who lead.
A season for women who create.
A season for women who are coming home to themselves.