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What if becoming a better leader isn’t about talking more, making faster decisions, or becoming more extroverted—but learning when to listen, wait, and let others speak first?
As you move higher in your career, the skills that made you a successful individual contributor may not be the skills that make you an effective senior leader. T. Rowe Price Chief Investment Officer Sébastien Page explains why leadership requires a fundamental shift from relying on your own expertise to bringing out the best thinking in other people. And if you’re introvert-ish, you may already possess some of the qualities that can make that transition easier.
In Laura’s conversation with Sébastien Page, you’ll discover:
🪝When speaking last in meetings helps you make better decisions, empower your team, and avoid unintentionally influencing what others tell you
🚀Why asking for feedback, staying curious during disagreements, and focusing on positive feedback can strengthen both your leadership and your team’s performance.
🧩Two practical habits you can start immediately to increase your visibility, and demonstrate senior-level leadership.
Play the episode to learn the counterintuitive leadership habits that can help you make the leap from high-performing manager to influential senior leader—without pretending to be someone you’re not.
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About our guest:
Sébastien Page is Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer at T. Rowe Price. He has more than two decades of leadership experience and has conducted extensive research on positive, sports, and personality psychology. He currently oversees a team of investment professionals actively managing over $500 billion in assets under management.
Page has written two finance books—Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know and the co-authored Factor Investing and Asset Allocation. He has also won six annual research-paper awards: two from The Financial Analysts Journal and four from The Journal of Portfolio Management.
He appears regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and was named a Top Voice in Finance by LinkedIn in 2022. He has been quoted extensively in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Barron’s. His latest book, The Psychology of Leadership, was published by Harriman House.
The Speak Up Podcast helps high-performing professionals develop executive presence through strategic communication, executive confidence, and leadership influence. Each episode provides practical strategies to help you speak up in meetings, communicate with senior leaders, present ideas with clarity, build executive visibility, strengthen your leadership presence, influence without authority, stop overexplaining, answer difficult questions with confidence, and become a trusted executive leader.
Whether you're preparing for your next Vice President promotion or looking to communicate with greater credibility and gravitas, you'll learn actionable executive communication skills that accelerate career growth.
Topics covered in this episode:
- How to speak up in executive meetings
- Executive Influence
- How to communicate with senior leadership
- How to develop executive presence
- How to be seen as VP material
- How to influence executives
- How to stop overexplaining at work
- How to answer executive questions concisely
- How to handle pushback from senior leaders
- How to increase visibility with leadership
- Director-to-VP transition
