ABOUT
Laura Mixon Camacho, PhD helps high-performing leaders stop being overlooked and start being inevitable.
She is the host of Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence, ranked the #1 Business Communication Podcast by Million Podcasts, where she challenges ambitious professionals to communicate with clarity, authority, and strategic influence.
A certified introvert who built her career by mastering the psychology of positioning, Laura knows that talent is rarely the problem. Visibility is. Perception is. Narrative control is.
Brilliant leaders stall not because they lack expertise — but because they ramble in meetings, underplay their impact, soften their message, or fail to strategically position themselves with decision-makers.
Laura fixes that.
Through her signature Executive Presence Mastery System, she helps rising and established executives craft a powerful personal brand, command the room without arrogance, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate in ways that make promotion the logical next step.
Her clients don’t just “improve communication skills.”
They become trusted voices.
They get invited into higher-level conversations.
They shape strategy instead of reacting to it.
With more than 5,000 executive coaching conversations across startups, specialized firms like Catalyst Advisors and Atlas Technologies, and global brands including ABI, AstraZeneca, Biogen, Comcast, FIFA, Pernod-Ricard, The LEGO Group, Nestlé, and all the major tech companies, Laura has seen what separates high performers from high-impact leaders.
The difference is executive presence — and executive presence is trainable.
After a decade in academia and living abroad in three countries, Laura now works from Charleston, supporting high-performing introvert and ambivert leaders who are done hoping to be noticed and ready to intentionally position themselves for influence, authority, and advancement.
If you’re excellent at what you do but not yet perceived at the level you operate — that’s her specialty. Set up time to strategize with Laura here.
Laura’s experience includes over 6,000 coaching conversations
Author and Podcaster
She is also author of the Cultured Communication Workbook and The Practical Guide to Effective Communication. Her podcast, Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence, is ranked #1 in US for Business Communication podcasts.
4 Scary Uncomfortable Goals I’ve Tackled
Flourishing in Caracas, Venezuela, and becoming multilingual
The first time I moved to Caracas, the Internet was not really a thing. Price controls made ordinary products like flour and chicken disappear from the market for weeks at a time. I stretched so much it was incredibly painful but also rewarding. I also lived in Germany for two years, where my son was born.
Open water swimming under the Bridge (2.4 miles)
Swimming in open water means you can’t stop and rest. You KEEP GOING in the murky water and against currents pulling you off track.
One year I forgot my googles and someone lent me a pair. Another year a man took off his prosthetic leg just before diving in. Talk about inspiration! I have completed this event 5 times.
Starting a company at the age you’re supposed to be paying for your kids’ college.
On the heels of an unwanted divorce, in the middle of my PhD program, having just returned to the U S, I learned to keep moving forward.
This journey taught me to have presence, to connect, and to engage with people. Doing hard things builds confidence!
Joined a Latin Choir at church with no musical talent.
This experience has served me a mega dose of humility. At work I get so much gratitude for what I do. In my first months of choir, I was definitely tolerated (in a nice way) not celebrated. Still, the music inspires me to get better.
You can learn to sing at any age if you’re willing to invest and practice.
