Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #219: The Problem with Corporate VIPs and How to Become an MVP Instead

Are you on the path to becoming an MVP or a VIP at your organization? The difference may seem small, but focusing on the wrong path can create huge problems in your career. VIPs are the high-level leaders you may be looking up to at your organization right now. They have power and influence and they’re often respected and even revered. But here’s the problem: As you advance to higher levels of leadership...you may come to realize that you don’t actually like them. And when this happens – when you realize many of the VIPs you admired are actually total a-holes who don’t stand for anything as a leader – this can be incredibly demotivating for you and your career. But in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to help you bypass this problem completely by showing you another path. I’ll show you how focusing on being an MVP – NOT a VIP – will help you achieve everything you admire about VIPs (the title, pay, recognition, and voice) while also stepping into your authentic power and having a major impact as a leader.

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Ep #218: How Working Less Will Help You Get Promoted More

You know that person at work who has a seat at the table, gets paid well, has lots and lots of influence, and continues to get promotion after promotion…but they also seem to put in less hours, deliver less projects, and maybe even care less about the organization than you do? You may be annoyed with this person, but I actually want you to follow their lead. At the executive level, you’re not getting paid by how many hours your butt is in your seat. You’re getting paid for your ideas, your visionary leadership, your ability to make hard decisions, your ability to problem solve at a higher level and more. And the best way to have the time and mental bandwidth to do all of the above and more is to start doing less at work. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership, I’m going to walk you through the advanced executive skills I have been teaching my clients so they can work less while being rewarded more than ever before.

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Rerelease: How to Create a Workplace Where Everyone Can Belong with Minda Harts

In each episode, I have rereleased carefully selected podcast episodes that will help you nail your next executive-level job interview and land the high-level leadership role you already deserve. While this final episode in the series isn’t specifically about interviewing, it does touch on one of the most important parts of my Executive Interview Strategy: Belonging. Because the best thing you can do when you walk into an executive-level interview is believe that you belong there. But really, truly believing you belong can be hard for women – especially for Women of Color. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I am bringing you an interview with the brilliant Minda Harts. Minda is a former corporate leader turned speaker, award-winning author, and all-around brilliant thought leader who is on a mission to improve racial equity in the workplace. In this episode, Minda and I discuss the trauma Women of Color often experience in the workplace, how corporate leaders can truly commit to racial equity and create a workplace that works for everyone, and more.

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Re-release: How to Nail Executive-Level Job Interviews By Staying Curious

There is a powerful career tool I’ve been coaching my clients on for years that directly influences their ability to get promoted to executive leadership. But I’ve barely ever mentioned it on this podcast. And that something is: Curiosity. Or as I like to call it: The Curiosity Index. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m doing a deep dive into how you can use your curiosity to generate higher and higher levels of success AND create opportunities for yourself that you never even could imagine were possible before. This is Part 2 in my 3-Part Executive Interview series. In each episode, I am rereleasing carefully selected podcast episodes that will help you nail your next executive-level job interview and land the high-level leadership role you already deserve.

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Rerelease: 3 Advanced Interview Skills to Help You Land a Higher Leadership Role

Here’s a little-known truth about job interviews: The way you show up can completely transform – or totally stall – your career. I’m not talking about whether or not you land the role. I’m talking about whether or not you’re seen as an executive leader. Because the reality is: The way you show up to an interview can keep you trapped in a technical role…or set you up for the career of your dreams. A career where you’re seen as an executive leader who can solve problems, make powerful decisions, have a huge impact, and be a vital part of the conversation. For the next 3 episodes of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I am re-releasing carefully selected podcast episodes that will help you nail your next job interview and land the high-level leadership role you already deserve.

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Ep #217: Get Promoted Faster By Co-Writing Your Career Development Plan

Has your boss ever created a career development plan for you…and nothing really happened? Months or even years go by and you still don’t have the promotion or pay you want. Does this mean your boss doesn’t care about you? Nope. It just means that 1. It’s YOUR job to make your promotion happen, and 2. Relying on your boss to do all the work to get you promoted is usually a career dead end. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how to create a super effective career development plan with your boss and I’m going to give you my step-by-step process for turning that plan into reality so you can fast track your next promotion.

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Ep #216: Speak Up and Stand Out with Jessica Chang Irish

It’s not enough to have a seat at the leadership table. You need to have a voice. But let’s be real: Leading a presentation, introducing yourself at a networking event, or speaking on stage can not only feel stressful…it can feel downright dangerous. So how can you consistently put yourself out there when the idea of speaking into a microphone sends you into fight or flight mode? I’ve invited public speaking coach Jessica Chang Irish on this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer to show you how. Jessica is an Emmy-award-winning news reporter turned public speaking coach who empowers and trains women in leadership to look and sound confident and credible when speaking on stage, in the boardroom, or at networking events. And in this episode, she is going to give you inspiring and highly practical advice so you can speak up, stand out, and be recognized as the brilliant executive leader you already are.

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Ep #215: The Gender Pay Gap and Why It's Time for a New Conversation

The current discourse around the gender pay gap and how we’re going to fix it is in desperate need of an overhaul. Telling women to create boundaries, have a better work-life balance, and delegate their work is actually pretty useless unless we’re also giving women a practical, step-by-step guide for what it’s really going to take to advance themselves to higher levels of leadership. Here’s the thing: The corporate badasses I work with aren’t waiting for their bosses, their organizations, or society at large to change. They’re getting themselves promoted to positions of power and influence so they can create that change. If you’re sick of hearing the same boring and not-that-effective career advice…Or you’re just looking for real-world solutions for overcoming gender bias at work…This episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer is for you.

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Ep #214: Become Your Boss's Favorite on Your Terms

If you want to be your boss’s successor, it can feel super demotivating when they have a favorite – and it isn’t you. On the other hand, it can also feel icky and super inauthentic to become your boss’s ‘yes’ person in the hopes of winning their favor and getting the promotion you want. But there’s a middle way. You can become your boss’s favorite on your terms, while also: building trust that you can lead at a higher level by including your boss in conversations the right way; proactively creating alignment with the entire executive team so you understand what really matters to your organization; and increasing your political savvy so you can disagree with your boss and still be heard. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’ll show you very specific tips and tools so you can set yourself up to become your boss’s successor and receive the promotion you already deserve.

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Ep #213: The Goal Delusion Problem and How to Set Better Career Goals for 2024

Are your goals for 2024 achievable? Or have you fallen into the goal delusion trap? Goal delusion is so insidious, because it not only stops you from advancing your career…but it can also sabotage your attempts to: build meaningful relationships with executive leadership, advocate for the raise you already deserve, and show up like the corporate badass you are to executive-level interviews. So if you struggle to achieve the career goals you set for yourself each year OR you do achieve them, but nothing really changes…then you may be suffering from a case of goal delusion. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how to know if you’re being delusional about your goals AND how to set better ones so you can achieve bigger, better results in your career and life in 2024.

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Ep #212: Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors with Erica Anderson Rooney.

Welcome to 2024!!! I’m coming to you today with the perfect episode to kick off the new year. It’s with keynote speaker, author, Chief People Officer and gender equality crusader, Erica Anderson Rooney, and I’m so excited to share it with you because we dive into two topics that are near and dear to my heart: 1. This episode is going to arm you with the tools and knowledge you need to overcome your sticky floors (AKA: the things keeping you stuck in your current role) so you can smash the glass ceiling at your organization. And 2. The world – not just your company – needs your visionary leadership, and Erica is the perfect example of what it looks like when executive leaders put their powerful thought leadership out into the world. Let’s get started.

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Ep #211: How to Advance Your Career as a Woman in Leadership

You’re a corporate badass. You’re great at what you do. And in 2024, I want you to be rewarded handsomely for it. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m bringing you a training I did recently where I laid out exactly what it’s going to take to get the executive-level promotion you deserve (not to mention the recognition, money, and influence) in the new year. This is a back-to-basics episode packed with the exact promotion strategies that have helped my clients receive promotions, skip-level promotions, multiple six-figure salary increases (and more) without having to “work harder”, have all the answers, or be the smartest person in the room. We need you and women like you in the executive suite in 2024, and this episode is going to give you the fuel you need to get there.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #210: Women in Politics with Mary Hayashi

Mary Hayashi is a former California State Assemblymember and the author of Women in Politics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieve True Representation. And in our interview together, she shares that 100% of the women she interviewed for her book were motivated to use their positions of power and influence to advocate for others and make the world a better place. Sounds familiar, right? I know you want the title, recognition, and $$$ you deserve. But I know you want to do that while having a big impact, bringing more kindness and empathy to executive leadership, and lifting up diverse voices at your organization and beyond. So if you’ve ever wondered how to use your power and influence to make your organization and the world a better place, or you just want some major insights and advice from a brilliant woman leader in politics…this episode is for you.

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Ep #209: Reorgs and 5 Unexpected Ways to Use Them to Your Advantage

Reorgs suck. And they also offer incredible opportunities. But if your organization is going through massive layoffs…or your mentors and allies are all jumping ship…or that promotion you were promised just disappeared before your very eyes…I get that you may have a super hard time seeing – let alone acting on – these opportunities right now. So in an effort to help you get your career back on track OR help you be better prepared the next time a reorg comes around, I’m going to lay out some solutions that you’re probably not even aware of right now. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’ll show you 5 hidden and unexpected ways that you can use a reorg to your advantage and make massive progress in your career.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #208: Boost Your Value at Work Using These 3 Steps

You deserve to be rewarded highly for the value you bring to your organization. But…the leaders at your organization might not see things that way. Super frustrating, right? Here’s the good news: You have control over how you’re valued at work. And you don’t need a new job or to work even harder to receive the voice, influence, $$$, and title you deserve. There are small shifts you can make to completely change how you are valued. And in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I'm giving you 3 things you can do to increase your perceived value at your organization so you can make more money, get higher titles, and make a bigger impact as a result. You create incredible value at your organization and you deserve so much more in return.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #207: Management Skills Made Easy with Corina Walsh

One of my favorite things about the corporate badasses I work with is their commitment to making their organizations a better, kinder, and more equitable place. So it doesn’t surprise me that, after getting promoted to higher and higher levels of leadership, they come to me with questions like: How can I be a better role model for my team? How can I coach the leaders I manage to become better leaders for their teams? What tools and strategies can I use to create a great workplace environment and help our employees feel more valued and engaged? Because we don’t get promoted to do everything the same way. We want to be a catalyst for change. And the easiest way to begin to do that is to be a catalyst for change with our teams. And to help you do that, I’ve invited Corina Walsh onto this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer. Corina is an executive coach, podcaster, and author on a mission to revolutionize the relationship between managers and employees. And in this episode, we sit down to discuss the specific tools and strategies you can use to be a better manager for your team – and to inspire the next generation of leaders to become excellent managers of their teams, too.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #206: 4 Steps to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Relationships at Work

I love helping corporate badasses create beautiful, inspiring, and positive visions for the things they are going to accomplish and receive over the course of their careers. And because I have a glass-half-full approach to executive coaching, I usually avoid getting in the weeds about all the gross, negative, and frankly sh*tty things that can happen in the corporate world. But here’s the truth: Many women are dealing with a lot of toxic relationships at work. 90% of my coaching conversations with my clients include a difficult boss or an asshole coworker or just a negative situation that’s gotten totally out of control. So on this episode of Women Changing Leadership, I’m going to show you four ways to deal with toxic relationships at work so you can ditch the BS and get back to advancing yourself to your next level of leadership.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #205: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Approach Performance Reviews

Friendly reminder: Your performance review is NOT the time to negotiate a pay raise or a promotion. In fact, 100% of the women I work with knew they were getting promoted before their performance review. But with that in mind, you may be wondering: ‘What the heck am I going to do/talk about/say in my performance review if I’m not advocating for a promotion???’ Your performance review is actually the perfect time to showcase your corporate badass-ery, open the door to more professional development conversations with leadership, and find out what it’s actually going to take to get the promotion you want. And on this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how to do all of the above and more. If you’ve been staring at your self-evaluation, unsure of what to write, or you’re just feeling a little unsure of how to approach your performance review in general, this episode is for you.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #204: My Best Salary Negotiation Tips

You know you deserve more money, right? The gender pay gap is real. You’ve experienced it first hand. But what you may not know is how to actually go out and get it. Or you may be under the false belief that you need to leave your current company, or come armed with a laundry list of numbers and accomplishments to prove your worth. But you don’t. And I know this because I help my clients successfully negotiate higher salaries, bonuses (and more) Every. Single. Week. (I even had one woman simply see one of my posts on social media, use my tip to level-set her salary, and receive an additional 20K with very little effort.) But…I just realized I don’t actually have a podcast episode about this. So here it is:  An episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer that’s filled with some of my best, tried-and-true negotiation tools and tips that you can begin to use right away to get the salary you deserve.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).

Ep #203: Driving Change Through Community with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

If you’re the type of corporate badass who’s ready to move the needle for your organization while also creating far-reaching, important and positive change for your company and the world…then you need to listen to this super inspiring conversation with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis. Marielena is the President of the Community College of Denver, and in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, she shares how you can use the power of community to drive major change for yourself and others. Meaning: The community of leaders who are going to support you to show up as your authentic, badass self…and the community of people you are going to support once you’re able to have the impact you’ve always dreamed of making.

Are you ready to be promoted?  Take this free quiz and find out.  You could be closer than you think (or not).