Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #78: What the Summer Exodus Means for You, Your Team – AND Your Career There is a major shift happening in the corporate world right now, and in this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I will be giving you practical strategies and advice on how to navigate these changes AND still set yourself up for an exciting change of your own. I’ll show you how to use this summer to re-evalua...

Ep #77: The 5 Biggest Career Lessons I’ve Learned from Running My Executive Ahead of Time Program When I first started my coaching career many years ago, I was focused on giving my students the tools they needed to become better leaders. And it worked! My students developed their skills, became time management experts, and were better able to have difficult conversations with their teams. But… Whi...

Ep #76: BS Business Speak (and Other Nuggets of Career Wisdom) with Jill and Bob Wiltfong Bob Wiltfong is a corporate consultant and the author of a best selling book on Amazon called The BS Dictionary: Uncovering the Origins and True Meanings of Business Speak. Bob joins me today alongside his wife, Jill Wiltfong, who is the CMO at Korn Ferry and a total corporate badass. On this episode of Maxim...

Ep #75: How Tolerating Your Own Bad Behaviors is Holding You Back From Your Next Promotion  Whenever someone reaches out to me for help, it usually goes something like this: They’re stuck in their careers and they’re blaming it on external issues like a bad boss or their organizational structure. But what if instead of placing all the blame on the things happening around us, we looked inward and c...

Ep #74: Executive Relationships Part 3: Building Your Personal Board of Directors No, advocating for a promotion does not mean that you do not deserve it. I see so many corporate women leaders with this mindset, and they’re playing small as a result. They think that if they need to ask for a promotion, they must not be ready for it in the first place. But that’s not how it works. I’ve talked to co...

#073 - Executive Relationships Part 2: Advanced Networking Secrets The networking advice that got you to this point in your career were just the basics. You need advanced networking strategies to make it to that next level. That’s why I’ve dedicated this episode to revealing the next-level networking secrets that you definitely don’t know. These are secrets I’ve given my clients so they could adva...

#072 -  Executive Advocacy with Kim Blue In this episode, Kim Blue and I dive into how executive advocacy will help you own your value, step into your next interview with confidence, and excel in whatever role you’re in. Kim is a Human Resources Executive and the Global Head of People Experience Partners At Zoom, where she has been leading the company's worldwide team of HR business partners...

#071 -  Executive Relationships Part 1: The Fastest Way to Build Trust with the Leadership Team Want to know one of the fastest ways to get a competitive edge in your organization? Schedule a 1:1 meeting with a member of the leadership team. Not only is it a great way to really step into the driver’s seat of your career, it’s also one of the absolute best ways to immediately establish trust and po...

#070 -  Seven Beliefs Holding You Back from Your Next Promotion I’ve discovered these beliefs after years of working with brilliant corporate leaders (like you) who have all the potential in the world to get themselves into higher level leadership positions, but are missing key strategies that are right in front of their faces. In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I reveal sev...

#069 -  How to Get Promoted by NOT Focusing On Yourself A lot of people fear that trying to get ahead in their careers requires them to be selfish. But guess what? Getting ahead for selfish reasons doesn’t work anyway. So if you want to get ahead, you need to really tap into those other desires you have. The desire to make a greater impact. The desire to have a voice at the table because you have...

#068 - Being Unapologetically Ambitious with Shellye Archambeau Shellye Archambeau has cracked the code on what it takes to get to that next level of leadership, and she has recently poured everything she’s learned into a book on the subject called Unapologetically Ambitious. On this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, Shellye joins me to explain exactly what unapologetic ambition is...

#067 -  Want to advance your career? Stop focusing on the WRONG person Building a relationship with a good boss can help you make major progress in your career. But a bad boss? Well...not so much. The reality is, you may be focusing all your time and energy on a boss that is never going to help you get ahead. That’s why I’ve dedicated this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer to showin...

#066 -  Passed over for a promotion? Here’s how to move forward In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I'm going to show you why getting passed over for a promotion has the potential to be the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to you. AND I'll break down how to get back up, dust yourself off, and do things better after being passed over for a promotion. Join the...

#065 -  How to Manage Your Time Like a Senior Executive Leader There are very specific things you can do in your career to free up more time, and I’m diving into each of them in this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer. I’ll show you how to think about and manage your time like a senior executive leader (starting today) AND I’ll also give you practical time management tips that will h...

#064 -  Executive Essentials Part 3: How to BECOME the Executive Ahead of Time I’ve invited my client, Jennifer Fisher, onto this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer to show you what becoming the Executive Ahead of Time looks like in real life. In this episode, we’ll take a peek behind the curtain to see exactly what Jennifer did to become the visionary leader she is today AND how she...

#063 -  Executive Essentials Part 2: How to COMMUNICATE Like an Executive Leader Executive leaders don’t have one-off conversations about their professional development, they don’t wait for someone to solve their problems, and they know how to set boundaries around where they spend their time. And here’s the really exciting news: You can change your communication style in an instant. That’s why I’...

#062 -  Executive Essentials Part 1: How to THINK Like an Executive Leader Executive Essentials is a 3-part podcast series designed to help you build the skills you’ll need to advance to a senior executive level. In each part of this series, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to be in my Executive Ahead of Time program AND you’ll have access to some of the tools and tips that I...

#061 -  How to Communicate to the Leadership Team that You’re Ready for Growth In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I’m giving you the tools you need to stand out from the pack and show the leadership team that you’re ready to do what it takes to grow. I’ll also dive into the reasons why you haven’t landed your next promotion already (even though you’re a talented, qualified p...

#060 -  Becoming the Author of Your Career (and Life) with Brig Johnson Brig Johnson is a friend and colleague, an absolute force to be reckoned with, and a mindset coach for high achieving Black women who has had the honor of being dubbed the “Beyonce of life coaching.” In the latest episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, we dig into the power of being the author of your career and lif...

#059 - Why You Need to Surround Yourself with Leaders Who Inspire You Having a strong group of role models and supporters who can help you advance your career needs to be a top priority for you if you want to step into a senior executive position someday. Not sure how to find them? You’re in luck. In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I show you how to start building these conn...

#058 - How to Lead a Team of Leaders In this episode, I’ll dive into how to create a plan that will help you be a better leader of your team, how to step into this higher level leadership role with confidence (instead of trying to prove yourself), plus super practical techniques on managing down to your team. Whether you’re already leading a large team and want to step up your game, or you’re hopi...

#057 - How to Stand Out as a Leader with Netflix’s Naphtali Bryant In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I sit down with Netflix’s Naphtali Bryant to discuss how to stand out as a leader by focusing on adding value. Naphtali is a thought leader and innovator in the learning and development space and he is showing up as a leader in a big way at work, on stage, and online. Naphta...

#056 - How to Never Get Passed Over For a Promotion Again In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I will be revealing strategies and insights that I usually only give out to my paid clients. You’ll learn content from Module 3 of the Executive Ahead of Time group coaching program that’s designed to help you manage your emotions so you can think and communicate like a senior execut...

#055 - My Biggest Career Takeaways From 2020 (With Real Life Examples) In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I reveal the top career lessons I learned from my clients over the course of 2020. These are clients who committed to their professional development last year, said ‘yes’ to growth before they said ‘yes’ to feeling safe, and accomplished HUGE things as a result. So wheth...

#054 - My Simple Process for Hitting All Your Goals Next Year When it comes to building your career, are you moving forward, falling behind, or staying stuck? In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I’ll show you a simple process for elevating how well you did at achieving your goals over the last 12 months, how to determine where you are in the process of advancing your career n...