The Knownership™ System

The missing link between capability and leadership outcomes.

The missing link between capability
and leadership outcomes.

The Knownership™ System

A diagnostic-led, curriculum-based executive presentation system embedded within leadership development — designed to make capability visible, comparable, and promotable across talent pipelines and succession planning.

Trusted by Australia’s leading organisations for 20 years.

Female executive leading a board meeting: executive presentation skills and strategic communication workshops for leaders.
Female executive leading a board meeting: executive presentation skills and strategic communication workshops for leaders.
Female executive leading a board meeting: executive presentation skills and strategic communication workshops for leaders.

Ad Hoc Training Creates Ad Hoc Results.

Ad Hoc Training Creates
Ad Hoc Results.

Executive presentation and communication training has traditionally focused on isolated moments — preparing leaders for individual presentations, speeches, or performance events. While useful in the short term, this approach does not change how leadership capability is consistently recognised, compared, or trusted across an organisation.

"Leadership Outcomes Aren’t Shaped by Performances. They’re Shaped by Patterns."

"Leadership Outcomes Aren’t Shaped by Performances. They’re Shaped by Patterns."

Leadership progression is determined by how capability is consistentally communicated over time — across meetings, forums, stakeholder interactions, and decision environments.

When executive communication is treated as a system, leadership readiness becomes visible, comparable, and promotable — which is why Knownership™ moves executive presentation and communication beyond training into a diagnostic-led, curriculum-based system embedded within leadership development and succession planning.

Leadership progression is determined by how capability is consistentally communicated over time — across meetings, forums, stakeholder interactions, and decision environments.

When executive communication is treated as a system, leadership readiness becomes visible, comparable, and promotable — which is why Knownership™ moves executive presentation and communication beyond training into a diagnostic-led, curriculum-based system embedded within leadership development and succession planning

Why Executive Communication Capability Stalls

Why Executive Communication Capability Stalls

When executive communication capability is developed reactively, owned in silos, or offloaded to individuals, leadership progression stalls — regardless of underlying expertise.

Reactive, Ad-Hoc Training

Reactive, Ad-Hoc Training

Reactive, Ad-Hoc Training

Triggered by urgency.

Function-Led Development

Function-Led Development

Function-Led Development

Owned in silos.

Self-Funded Gap Filling

Self-Funded Gap Filling

Self-Funded Gap Filling

Carried by individuals.

From Capability to Recognition:
A Trainable System

From Capability to Recognition: A Trainable System

The Knownership™ System is a structured, executive-grade presentation capability system — combining curriculum, diagnostics, and application to ensure expertise is seen, trusted, and rewarded.

Knownership Equation (KE)

Knownership Equation (KE)

The Method

What it defines

The four executive presentation capabilities that determine how leadership is judged: Narrative, Voice, Presence,

and Agency.

The four executive presentation capabilities that determine how leadership is judged: Narrative, Voice, Presence, and Agency.

How it operates

The Knownership Equation™ sets the standard for how leaders design and deliver executive presentations — communicating thinking, authority, and intent with clarity and impact in high-stakes forums where credibility is tested and leadership judgments are made.

What it achieves

A shared standard for executive presentation capability that can be developed, observed, and strengthened over time — not left to instinct, confidence, or personal style.

The four executive presentation capabilities that make leadership capability visible and credible.

NARRATIVE
VOICE
PRESENCE
AGENCY (X3)

The Method

The four executive presentation capabilities that make leadership capability visible and credible.

NARRATIVE
VOICE
PRESENCE
AGENCY(X3)

The Method

The four executive presentation capabilities that make leadership capability visible and credible.

NARRATIVE
VOICE
PRESENCE
AGENCY(X3)

The Method

Knownership Quotient™ (KQ)

Knownership Quotient™ (KQ)

The Metric

What it reveals

The gap between what a leader knows and how their executive presentation capability is actually perceived in leadership decision environments.

How it operates

The Knownership Quotient™ provides a structured diagnostic view of how presentation capability is seen across Narrative, Voice, Presence, and Agency — replacing assumption with evidence in how visibility and credibility are assessed.

What it achieves

Targeted development based on insight, not guesswork — enabling organisations to focus investment where executive presentation capability is least visible and most limiting leadership progression.

The diagnostic that shows how executive presentation capability is seen, trusted, and judged.

Narrative

82%

Voice

68%

Presence

45%

Agency

30%

X3

The Metric

The diagnostic that shows how executive presentation capability is seen, trusted, and judged.

Narrative

82%

Voice

68%

Presence

45%

Agency

30%

X3

The Metric

The diagnostic that shows how executive presentation capability is seen, trusted, and judged.

Narrative

82%

Voice

68%

Presence

45%

Agency

30%

X3

The Metric

Knownership Archetypes™ (KA)

Knownership Archetypes™ (KA)

The Style

What it reveals

The communication styles shaping how a leader’s presentation capability is interpreted and evaluated.

How it operates

The Knownership Archetypes™ surface recurring communication patterns that influence how authority, confidence, and credibility are perceived — making style visible rather than unconscious in executive presentations.

What it achieves

More deliberate calibration of presentation style, enabling leaders to communicate authority and credibility effectively across contexts, stakeholders, and decision forums.

The communication styles that explain why equally capable leaders are perceived differently.

SUPPORTER
INFLUENCER
OBSERVER
PERFORMER

Low Experience

High Experience

High Agency

Low Agency

The Style

The communication styles that explain why equally capable leaders are perceived differently.

SUPPORTER
INFLUENCER
OBSERVER
PERFORMER

Low Experience

High Experience

High Agency

Low Agency

The Style

The communication styles that explain why equally capable leaders are perceived differently.

SUPPORTER
INFLUENCER
OBSERVER
PERFORMER

Low Experience

High Experience

High Agency

Low Agency

The Style

Knownership Sequence™ (KS)

The Sequence

What it reveals

The underlying structural pattern that effective executive presentations follow.

How it operates

The Knownership Sequence™ makes presentation structure explicit — guiding how ideas are introduced, understood, and taken forward in executive forums, replacing ad-hoc slide building with repeatable presentation architecture.

What it achieves

Clearer, more intentional executive presentations — designed to drive understanding, alignment, and action.

The presentation structure that underpins effective executive leadership presentations.

The Sequence

The Sequence

The presentation structure that underpins effective executive leadership presentations.

The Sequence

The presentation structure that underpins effective executive leadership presentations.

The Sequence

The four executive presentation capabilities that make leadership capability visible and credible.

NARRATIVE
VOICE
PRESENCE
AGENCY(X3)

The Method

“Isolated training creates isolated results.
Systems create sustained leadership impact.”

Experience the Knownership™ System in practice.

From Capability to Recognition: A Trainable System

The Knownership Quotient (KQ) offers individuals a first view into how their executive presentation capability is currently perceived.

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Ready to Be Known?

Start with the free assessment. Discover your rating across four imperative executive communication and presentation capabilities, and get a personalised roadmap for building the visibility your capability deserves.

Ready to Be Known?

Start with the free assessment. Discover your rating across four imperative executive communication and presentation capabilities, and get a personalised roadmap for building the visibility your capability deserves.

Ready to Be Known?

Start with the free assessment. Discover your rating across four imperative executive communication and presentation capabilities, and get a personalised roadmap for building the visibility your capability deserves.