So let me bring you in…
here’s the BTS version of my story
I started in corporate after six years in the advertising agency world… working on brands like Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ford Racing.
Then I walked into a 50,000+ employee organization and realized I had no idea how corporate actually worked.
It was a whirlwind of acronyms, a zillion colleagues in almost every time zone, bureaucracy that was hard to understand, and managers who had no idea how to develop the people under them.
And me… a single mom of a toddler at the time, trying to learn the unwritten rules nobody was teaching while also just trying to survive it.
Then came the layoff. I had done everything my manager told me to do, and yet, it didn’t matter.
That was the moment I stopped waiting for someone to hand me the real rules…
Fifteeen years ago, I went looking for them myself.
FAST FORWARD TO NOW…
I negotiated a $50,000 sign-on bonus
I tripled my corporate 6-figure compensation
I’ve been offered premium relocation packages to two states (Florida to Michigan, and Michigan to Oregon)
I received an MBA that I paid $0 for thanks to an employer
I earned my second Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and my employer paid $$$ to support my future
I earned a 4.0 & 3.9 gpa in two Master’s programs while working full-time
I consistently received strong, positive feedback in performance reviews
I have built a reputation that has execs proactively offering to be my mentor
HOW I DID IT (& YOU CAN TOO)
This came from earning a seat at every level of the table… as an individual contributor, the manager, a director, and a CCO’s Chief of Staff…sitting next to executives while also being the one making the tough calls that affected everyone below them.
Learned to think like a leader before anyone gave me the title or the budget to prove it
Read the room while it was being rewritten — every reorg, every leadership change, every shift in what was getting rewarded
Figured out my positioning… what made me the obvious person for the room, the role, the conversation
Got on the radar of decision-makers without playing politics or losing myself doing it
Built relationships with the people who had real influence, not just the ones with the biggest titles
Understood how to make my work land with leadership… not just deliver it and hope they noticed
Developed the kind of executive presence that got me pulled into rooms most people only heard about secondhand
Navigated matrix organizations without a map… and eventually became someone others came to when they needed one
If you’ve read this far, you know what to do next.
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The Friday Briefing is where I put everything together for you… what’s changing at work, how leadership is actually thinking about it, and what that means for how you move now. Not a recap of AI headlines. Not generic career advice. The stuff your manager doesn’t know how to tell you and your HR rep doesn’t know exists.
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