I work really hard at my role and manage multiple teams have been doing the job for a few years . I am peri menopausal and I guess my confidence is not what it used to be . I often speak to large groups of people and to senior stakeholders with aplom but in fairness I don’t relish or enjoy this and it’s something I have to work at but I get by . I use humour, I don’t rely too much on notes, I try to keep my presentations brief, engaging and interesting. I have always had good feedback . My Manager has the tendency to remove responsibilities from me at the drop of a hat and whilst I led on a specific Department wide meeting initially he removed it from me and started it to chair it himself following feedback - he wasn’t prepared to share it and wasn’t specific what this was !!! I found it humiliating. My Manager is super confident,a skilled orator, senior in the organisation and has taken to criticising me frequently recently about my inauthenticity and that I need to be more energetic in my public messaging and specifically to include storytelling to built my ‘personal branding’ . He previously fed back that I was performing really well in presentations so I don’t know where this has come from and he isn’t giving me many coherent examples of my lack of authenticity but it seems to be around taking shared responsibility for unpopular decisions - which I do ! . I don’t think I am inauthentic or unrelatable I work hard to build personal relationships and trust with my teams and I am genuinely interested in them as people and take time to give constructive feedback . I guess I am better one on one . Has anyone got any thoughts or tips as this is really denting my confidence and putting me off public speaking even more ! Do I really need to approach public speaking as if I was delivering a TED talk It wouldn’t come naturally to me and the thought makes me want to vomit actually . If I gave the context to these type of presentations think civil service HR.