A full-grain leather folder with twelve pockets, a notepad holder, and a document sleeve. Built for the pack you prepared properly: the market map, the pipeline analysis, the three shortlisted profiles. It is thick enough to look serious and elegant enough to survive being left on the table unopened until the meeting starts, at which point everyone forms a view of the market in real time anyway.
Prepare it well. Bring it. Accept that the room will improvise, and have the dossier ready for when they circle back to what you already wrote.
Part of The Waiting Room Collection, for recruiters trapped in the eternal loop of approvals, briefings, and meetings about meetings.