Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #151: Stop Using Diversity as a Selling Point and Start Being Diverse Instead I have always been different. As a child, I stood out from other people at my school. I had bright red hair, freckles over my entire body, and I rocked a set of braces all through high school. And I was also always louder, more emotional, more dramatic, more creative, and more driven than most of the people around me....

Ep #150: How Women like YOU Are Changing Leadership Welcome to the inaugural episode of Women Changing Leadership! We are saying goodbye to Maximize Your Career. But we are saying hello to a new podcast that will offer the same great content you’ve been receiving for the past three years…but in a much larger , more empowered , and more mission-driven way. So in this episode of Women Changing Leade...

Big Announcement! Say goodbye to Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer And say hello to Women Changing Leadership! In this short bonus episode, I share some big and important changes happening with the Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer podcast. And don’t worry: if you want to advance to the executive suite, have a powerful voice at the table, and change the way your organization is run from th...

Ep #149: Using Master Mentors to Transform Your Career with Scott J. Miller Every single successful person has someone who inspired them to get to where they are today. And being the absolute corporate badass that you are, I know you’ve had quite a few inspiring people in your life too. Maybe you were inspired by a leader at your organization. Or maybe it was a friend or family member. Or, as Scot...

Ep #148: Why Being a Female Executive is a Powerful Form of Social Activism Women like you having influence and a real voice at the executive leadership table is still not widely accepted. And women like you reaching these roles while also bringing your true, authentic self right along with you is even rarer. This really sucks, right? But how do your feelings around this shift when you realize tha...

Ep #147: Stop Trying to Fix Your Boss and Advance Your Career Instead Which would you rather do: Fix your boss? Or get promoted to the executive suite? Because you can only pick one. The problem with fixing your boss is that it holds you back from doing what you need to do to advance your career. And the solution is to stop working on your boss and to start working on yourself . So in this episode...

Ep #146: How to Accelerate Your Executive Presence in Just 15-Minutes a Week Have you been told you need to work on your “ executive presence ”? I’ve spent most of my career avoiding this term because ‘ You need to work on your executive presence ’ often translates to ‘ You need to act more like the rest of the people in the room ’. (And spoiler alert: the rest of the people in the room are men.)...

Ep #145: Why Women Need to Go For the ‘BIG, Happy, Holy WOW Money’ with Serena Hicks While you’re out there being a complete badass and changing the way business is run from the C-Suite out, I want you to remember two things: 1. You deserve an incredible title to match the incredible leader you are becoming. 2. You deserve to be paid handsomely for it, too. That’s why I invited my very dear friend...

Ep #144: What The New Dawn of Executive Leadership Means for YOU A new dawn of executive leadership is here. An era where you don’t have to claw your way to the top by “acting like a man”. An era where badass women like you can advance your career while being authentic to the leader you want to become, writing your own path, and bringing more diversity to the leadership table. And you’re going to...

What The New Dawn of Executive Leadership Means for YOU Let’s be honest. Getting passed over for a promotion frickin’ sucks . But what if you could get passed over for a promotion…and know that you have what it takes to get right back on track? Sure, you can still feel disappointed when you get passed over. There may still even be tears.  But what if you could build an incredible kind of resilienc...

Ep #142: How Working Remotely Actually Helps You Build Better Executive Relationships There’s a popular idea out there that it’s harder to collaborate, build key relationships, and get promoted when you work remotely. And I’m calling BS . Getting promoted to the executive suite has nothing to do with how much face time you put in around the water cooler. But it has everything to do with getting in...

Ep #141: Solving Complex Problems as a Leader with Everett Harper It’s a total understatement to say that we’ve been living in uncertain times the last few years, right? How have you been dealing with that uncertainty? For me, I look for corporate badasses who are bringing new and exciting ideas to the table. And whenever I find a leader like this, the first thing I do is invite them onto this pod...

Ep #140: Working with Assholes Part 3: How to Stop Being an Asshole to Yourself Welcome to Part 3 of Working with Assholes! In each episode of this series, I deal with a different group of assholes who may be making things hard for you right now and I’ll give you strategies on how to deal with them. And I am closing out this 3-part series by sharing strategies and inspiration to help you deal with...

Ep #139: Working with Assholes Part 2: How to Free Yourself from Your Asshole Boss Are you dealing with an asshole boss at work? A lot of women come to me for help because their asshole boss is literally the #1 thing standing between them and their next promotion. But there is a way out. In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I’ll show you how learning how to swim in your own la...

Ep #138: Working with Assholes Part 1: How to Stop Stressing About Jealous Peers When you get in control of your career and start actively going for your next promotion, your relationship with some of your peers will start to shift. That shift can lead to a lot of judgment and jealousy on the part of your peers, and a lot of fear and anxiety on yours. And this sort of negative attention stops a LO...

Ep #137: Stories and Strategies from 3 Corporate Badasses Who Are Transforming the Future of Leadership Want a front row seat to the magic that happens when you become the Executive Ahead of Time? In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I am bringing you three incredible corporate badasses who are achieving big things in their careers right now. Things like: growing and absolutel...

Ep #136: The Myth of Mentorship (and Why You Need Allies Instead) Having a mentor can help you get promoted. But only if you look like everyone else in the room. So in this week’s episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I debunk the myth that you need a mentor to get promoted into senior executive leadership positions and I share how building 15-Minute Allies is not only more effective,...

Ep #135: 5 Magical Ingredients for Landing a Promotion This Summer In the first two weeks of July alone, five different corporate badasses have emailed me to celebrate that they were being promoted to VP positions . Want to know the best part? Each and every one of them received their promotion while on (or about to start) their summer vacation . I’ve dubbed this summer: The Summer of Magic. The s...

Ep #134: Trusting Your Voice with Karen Laos Karen is a corporate leader turned professional speaker and all-around communication badass who helps women in business speak with clarity and stand out with unshakable confidence. Plus, she’s worked with incredible clients like NASA, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Sephora, AT&T, Levi’s and United Healthcare. In this episode, we dive into tips and strat...

Ep #133: My 30-60-90 Day Plan for Killing It In Your New Role The first 90 days in your new role is the perfect time to put your head down, check all the boxes on your to-do list, and really prove yourself, right? WRONG!! I call this approach the ‘being-a-good-employee’ mindset. But remember: corporate badasses don’t settle for being a ‘good employee’. We show up to our new roles thinking, communi...

Ep #132: 5 Women's Leadership Tips You Can Use to Advance Your Career Right Now Earlier on in my career, I was a cookie cutter leadership coach for corporate women. And this experience of training women to be amazing leaders is the foundation for all of the work I do today. But…It has its downsides. I’ve seen first hand how the standard women’s leadership advice could help women get better at...

Ep #131: My 3-Year Plan for Advancing to the Executive Suite AND Making a Massive Impact Right now, as you read this, you are three years (or less) away from really, truly loving your job, having way more autonomy at work, being happier in your career and life, being able to make a bigger impact than you ever thought was possible before, AND using your position as a high-level executive to transfo...

Ep #130: How Women are Redefining the Economy with Katrine Marçal There’s a belief in economics that self-interest is the thing that motivates economic activity. But what if that’s… wrong ? I know YOU want the title, the pay increase, and the recognition. And sure, that IS self-interest. And that’s great. But we both know that you want so much more than that. You want to land the promotion AND you...

Ep #129: How Your Fear of Micromanaging is Stopping You from Leading like an Executive You are not micromanaging your team enough. Now before you say, “But Stacy you told me to get out of the weeds?!” Yes, that is true. BUT part of the reason you are in the weeds is because you are not micromanaging your team enough. Now hear me out.  I know you cringe at the idea of being called a micromanager. B...

Ep #128: The REAL Reason Why You Need to Go for the Promotion If you’re getting lots of accolades, landing promotions, securing higher and higher pay raises, you may start to look around and wonder…what’s all this REALLY for? The truth is, a lot of women stop advancing in their careers once they hit the senior manager level. And it’s not because they don’t have what it takes to advance to upper le...