Vibhuti Sharma | Executive Presence and Influence Coach

Frameworks

The Influence GapTM

Why do some leaders have the expertise, experience and ideas, yet their influence doesn't match their value?

After years of observing leaders, I identified a recurring pattern.

The Influence Gap is the distance between the value you bring and the value others experience.

Where is your influence leaking?

Influence leaks at three critical points, Translation, Awareness and Perception

Your Expertise Knowledge, Experience, Ideas, Expertise
01

Translation

Can they see why your expertise matters?

Expertise → Impact
02

Awareness

What are you not seeing?

Success → Awareness
03

Perception

How are they experiencing you?

Presence → Influence
The Impact You Create Clarity, Trust, Connection, Action, Opportunity
TAP

The Three Influence Leaks, Translation. Awareness. Perception.

These are the three points I look at to identify where your influence is leaking, and what needs to be plugged.

T

Translation

Can they see why your expertise matters? This is where knowledge becomes impact, or gets lost in the space between what you know and what others understand.

A

Awareness

What are you not seeing? This is where success stops translating into awareness, and blind spots quietly shape how you are perceived.

P

Perception

How are they experiencing you? This is where presence either builds influence, or fails to carry the weight of everything you actually bring.

PIV

The Foundation to Bridge the Gap, Presence. Influence. Value.

PIV provides the foundation to strengthen how you show up, how you move people, and what stays with them.

P

Presence

How you show up

I

Influence

How you move people

V

Value

What stays with them

Together, they help you close the Influence Gap and make your value felt.

The Diagnostic

Where is your influence leaking?

Take the quick diagnostic to find out.

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Close the Influence Gap.

Make your value felt.

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