The Unspoken Rules of Promotion · Free Live Masterclass
Without bragging, politicking, or turning into someone you're not.
For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women are, and what's holding you back isn't competence, it's perception. In one free live hour I'll show you the three shifts that get you seen, sponsored, and into the conversation for your next big role, as yourself.
What You'll Learn Live
You've been playing by a rulebook nobody actually follows: do great work, keep your head down, and wait to be noticed. The women who get promoted are playing by a different one, and it comes down to three shifts that happen in a specific order. Here's what I'll show you live.
Why the most capable person in the room is so often the last one promoted. You were handed a quiet promise early on: do excellent work, and it gets noticed. That promise is exactly what's failing you now, because your best work keeps getting credited to someone louder. I'll show you what's actually being evaluated when a promotion decision gets made, and it isn't what you were taught.
Get known for the value you bring, without bragging or turning into someone you're not. It's a learnable skill, not a personality. Being the hardest worker in the room is invisible by design. Being known for that work is something you can build on purpose, and I'll show you where it starts.
Walk into a room and get read as a leader before you ever have the title. It's the difference between doing the job and being seen doing it. When the decision-makers picture you in the role instead of picturing you exactly where you are, the conversation changes. I'll show you what shifts that picture.
Become the obvious, differentiated choice for your next role instead of one more qualified name on a list. It's the reason you keep hearing "you're so close" without ever quite closing the gap. It isn't more time and it isn't more work. I'll show you what actually closes it.
“A coach talks with you, a mentor talks to you, and a sponsor talks for you.
Why you feel over-mentored and under-sponsored, and what actually moves the needle. Most women get plenty of advice and almost no advocacy in the room where the decision gets made. I'll show you how that room really works, and where your name has to come up.
Women spend up to 200 more hours a year on non-promotable office housework, and none of it shows up in a promotion (Babcock et al., "The No Club"). One free hour points that effort at what actually gets you seen.
Credibility
These are women who came in exactly where you are now, doing the next level's work and watching the title go somewhere else, and moved into the conversation for the role they'd already been performing. In their words.
Real client stories are being gathered and will appear here in their own words. In the meantime, the credibility behind this masterclass is 30 years of doing exactly this, from the inside.
Individual experiences vary and are not a promise of any promotion, raise, or specific result. Figures cited reflect third-party research, available on request.
The Shift, In You
You don't become a different person here. You become the same woman who finally sees the game clearly, and plays it as herself.
Same woman. Same capability. A completely different position on the board. The difference is one hour and a map you were never handed.
TEDxPurdueU Speaker · Author of "Taboo Topics"
Your Guide
Not from a book about corporate. From 30 years inside it.
I spent 30 years in corporate, and the smallest company I ever worked for was a $14 billion company. I built my career in global sales and marketing leadership across the consumer packaged goods world, in senior roles at Procter & Gamble, Hershey Foods, Kimberly-Clark, and Newell Brands, and I reached the VP level. So I'm not teaching you this from the outside. I was in the rooms where these decisions actually get made, watching who moved up and who stalled, learning the rules the hard way, because nobody writes them down.
And here's the part I most want you to hear: I was overlooked in those rooms too. I did the work and watched the title go elsewhere, and I spent a long time wondering if the problem was me. It wasn't, and it isn't for you either. What I finally figured out is that being passed over is a perception problem, and a perception problem has a fix. So I cracked the code, the same code nobody had handed me, and that code is exactly what I'm going to hand you.
I took what I learned to a TEDx stage, at TEDxPurdueU, and into a best-selling book, "Taboo Topics." I stopped waiting to be noticed, I learned the rules, and now I teach them. If I can do it, you can do it too.
You already know how waiting ends: another cycle, another "you're so close," another title going to someone who was simply seen more clearly. It's a real, documented pattern, and it ends the moment you learn the three shifts.
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