Focus Topic · Presence · fem:up
A presence that amplifies impact.
Making leadership and teams more effective, through personal presence and charisma as well. In the meeting, in the difficult conversation, on the stage of everyday work. An acting-based training that works on exactly that: deeply rooted in female empowerment, today also for mixed groups. Together with fem:up.
Presence and career training rooted in acting, our partner for presence.
The problem
Making yourself smaller than you are.
The substance is there. But in the decisive moment, in the meeting, in the difficult conversation, in the leadership situation, it does not land the way it should. So people adapt, hold back, take up less room than there is. And the usual trainings hand out rules of behavior that feel like a costume. This is where we start differently: no rules for how somebody has to be. We look at what is already there.
Familiar scenarios:
- Being talked over, even though the contribution was the better one.
- Bending yourself to appear professional, and losing your own impact along the way.
- The bigger the room, the quieter the voice. Your own position gets lost.
- In the difficult conversation, posture and words fail at exactly the decisive moment.
- Nervousness before a presentation or a stage moment; the body does not play along.
- A strong presence feels like effort, not like your own strength.
The approach
A strong presence does not have to be hard work.
We work with what is there: with exercises from acting, body and voice become tools you can use deliberately. At work, in difficult conversations, in leadership situations or on the stage of everyday life: presence stays authentic at all times. 99% of the training is practical exercise. Just do it. Real presence only emerges when your own personality flows into it.
How the training works
Practice, not theory.
A strong presence does not have to be hard work. We anchor individual skills in body memory, so they stay retrievable with ease even under pressure.
fem:up — Anna Röser & Tatjana Poloczek
Formats
From female empowerment to presence for everyone.
The root is the presence and career training for women, Embrace Your Female Strength (female only). fem:up now opens the same craft to mixed groups, men and leaders at every level. Groups usually up to 12 participants; focus areas are agreed in a preliminary conversation.
- Empowerment QuickyOne-day short training.
- Power training2–3 consecutive days.
- Intensive trainingFrom 5 sessions over a longer period.
- Follow-upDeepening for participants of the basic training.
- Leadership in ActionImpact as a leader.
- Virtual PresencePresence in the digital space.
- The Art of PresenceMen only.
- One-on-one training1:1 on presence, body language, voice, posture.
With whom — Die Dranbleiber × fem:up
The trainers.
Studied business and acting, trained as a systemic coach, lecturer and trainer for many years. Her mission: encouraging women to shape their career path authentically and to be present in their own way.
Founded the mobile theater “Der Kleine Container” in 2020; freelance lecturer since 2020, including at the universities of Paderborn, Heidelberg and Hamburg.
Two crafts that interlock.
Presence and substance reinforce each other: the acting craft makes impact tangible, our approach anchors it in mindset and daily work. Together, a presence emerges that holds.
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