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KEYNOTES & PROGRAMS
Angelina Darrisaw is the Founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach. For more than a decade she has helped leaders build the habits that move a business forward: checking assumptions, making a calibrated ask, delegating well to people and to AI, and recovering quickly when the answer is no.
Signature Talks
What Are You Assuming?
Why Curiosity Is a Leader’s Most Practical Skill. Most leadership mistakes begin as an assumption. A leader decides an employee is the problem, assumes a peer’s priorities match their own, or concludes they already know why a project failed, and then acts on it. Angelina Darrisaw calls curiosity a leadership superpower because it limits the projection of our own ideas onto other people. A curious leader finds out what is true before deciding what to do.
The Calibrated Ask
Executive Presence for Senior Leaders. When a CEO or board member says a senior leader lacks executive presence, the comment usually traces to four fixable failures: the opening didn’t earn attention, the point wasn’t tied to what the listener cares about, the ask wasn’t calibrated, or something felt off in the delivery. Angelina Darrisaw teaches senior-level presence as a discipline of substance, because every executive hearing a proposal has the same three questions: why are you telling me, what do you want, and is it reasonable?
Your AI Slop Is a Performance Review
Good leaders are careful with company resources. They watch budgets, protect people’s time and expect a return on every tool they buy. AI deserves the same discipline, and few organizations apply it. The evidence is AI slop: unverified drafts, abandoned chats, unreviewed agents, and compute spent on work no one uses. Angelina Darrisaw shows how slop grows from the habits of a poor delegator (vague briefs, no example of what good looks like, no review before work goes out) and why using AI well is a leadership competency that can be coached.
I Hope You Lose
Self-Belief, Discipline and Falling in Love With Yourself. Most of us stop trying new things because the moment something doesn’t work, we decide we aren’t capable. One failure becomes a story about who we are. Angelina Darrisaw carried that story for years, through building a business, losing a marriage and starting over, and this talk is about how she put it down.
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