Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #127: How to Paint a Vision that Makes Your Next Promotion INEVITABLE There is so much more to getting promoted than the ‘how’. The how is the nuts and bolts that gets you there. But your vision? Your vision gives you the inspiration and commitment you need to reach your big goals and uplift every area of your life in the process. And when you have clarity on your vision for your career AND you...

Ep #126: How to Embody Self-Awareness as a Leader with Jay Fields Jay Fields is an embodiment educator who has devoted her life to helping people manage their emotions more effectively so they can have their own backs at work and in life. And she does so in a way that is grounded, playful, empathetic, and intelligent. In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, Jay and I discuss how...

Ep #125: How to Transition into Executive Leadership by Treating it like a New Career Path If you are trying to advance into executive leadership but you feel stuck, you need to do THIS:  let go of your OLD career. The career you had as the subject matter expert with all the skills and responsibilities that went along with it. This is where we draw the line in the sand. The line between the techni...

Ep #124: How to Overcome the ‘Aggressive’ Label at Work Do you worry about receiving feedback that you’re too aggressive at work? This is a topic that came up on a panel I was presenting on recently, and the way the women in the audience fixated on this problem was a big red flag for me. Because, how are you going to raise your hand, speak up more, share your opinions, ask directly for that promot...

Ep #123: How Bad Feedback is Killing Your Career You’re going to get a lot of feedback over the course of your career, about all kinds of things, and from all kinds of people. And the ability to solicit golden nuggets of feedback – while avoiding the types of feedback that are simply distractions or, worse, career landmines – is going to become increasingly important as you make your way to the to...

Ep #122: Reach Your Peak Performance WITHOUT Burning Out with Julia  Julia Arndt is passionate about helping others reach their peak performance without having to burn out, sacrifice, or compromise. On this episode of Maximize Your Carer with Stacy Mayer, Julia shares the peak performance and stress management strategies that will help YOU thrive at a whole new level of your career and life. Let&a...

Ep #121: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at My Executive Reboot Process I’m always looking for ways to get better and better results for my Executive Ahead of Time students. Recently, I noticed that in addition to the trainings and modules inside of Executive Ahead of Time, there were a lot of really cool things happening on our weekly coaching calls, too. We were taking the teachings from my program and...

Ep #120: How Being ‘Irreplaceable’ is Sabotaging Your Career The fact that you’re irreplaceable in your role is ruining your chances of getting promoted. Look at it this way: When you are irreplaceable, it’s easier for your organization to hire someone NEW to fill the role you want than it is to promote you and find a replacement (or, let’s be real, three replacements) to take over the work you ar...

Ep #119: 3 Promotion Strategies Your Boss Will NEVER Tell You Right now, your boss is probably giving you advice on how to manage your team better, hit your deliverables, and manage your time...but these aren’t the skills the leadership team is looking for when deciding whether or not to promote you to the executive suite. But that totally-against-the-grain work I love to do? That kind of advice s...

Ep #118: How to Get Multiple Job Offers with My Executive-Level Interview Strategy One of the most popular things I teach inside my Executive Ahead of Time program is my Interview Mastery course. As a direct result of this training, my students are getting multiple job offers for high-level leadership positions from multiple organizations on the regular. So if you want to follow suit, if you want...

Ep #117: How Women Leaders are Changing the Face of Tech with Maxim Cramer Maxim Cramer is a corporate badass and the founder and CEO of MENNENIA, a company dedicated to eradicating barriers for women in tech. She’s helped brilliant women leaders create technology that addresses some of the most important issues our world is facing today, including sustainability, domestic violence, and childhood...

Ep #116: Why Titles Matter (And ALSO Why Titles Don't Matter At All) Titles DO matter when it comes to taking charge of your own career. But…they also DON’T matter, too. Because, yes, you don’t need a higher title to start having the impact you want to be making right now. But on the flipside… Your title can open doors for you. It can help you have a seat and a voice at the table, so you can...

Ep #115: How to Get Exactly What You Want at Your Performance Review What if, instead of walking into your performance review filled with dread or feeling pretty ‘meh’ about the process…you could instead walk in feeling confident because you know exactly what you’re going to get? No guessing. No doubts.  You’ve already planted the seeds of your next promotion, you’ve nurtured them, and now it’s ti...

Ep #114: My Unconventional Strategy For Pulling Yourself Out of the Weeds Getting out of the weeds has 0% to do with getting better at managing your time. All it really requires is a 5% shift in how you are communicating to your boss, to the executive team, and around the leadership table. In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I'm breaking down exactly how you can start to...

Learning how to manage my emotions is the best thing I have done for my career and life in the past few years. But, I used to really suck at it. So today I am sharing the tips and tricks that have had the biggest impact for me. This is the final episode of a three-part series I’ve lovingly named: Things I Suck At. In each episode, I focus on something I am terrible at and share practical advice so...

Ep #112: Things I Suck At  Part 2: My Rocky Road To Becoming An Influential Strategic Thinker This is part two of a three-part series I’ve lovingly named: Things I Suck At. In each episode, I’m focusing on something I am terrible at and sharing practical advice so you can stop sucking at this too. In this episode of Maximize your Career with Stacy Mayer, I'm getting super raw and vulnerable a...

Ep #111: Things I Suck At Part 1: Setting Boundaries The vast majority of the time I am coaching corporate badasses on things I WOULD do. But some of the time I am giving advice on things that I know from experience will get them massive results…but I struggle to implement these things myself. So in the name of transparency, I have decided to create a 3-part podcast series dedicated to the things...

Ep #110: How To Reach The Executive Suite By Tapping Into Your Authentic Power Tapping into your authentic power is a game changer for you and your career. That’s because there are so many knock-on effects of stepping into your authentic power, and once you fully embrace this state of being, everything else becomes almost effortless. In this episode of Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer,  I&apo...

Ep #109: Where You Need Straight A’s (and B-’s) In Your Professional Development This week on Maximize Your Career with Stacy Mayer, I’ll reveal  how to use the traditional grading system to figure out where you need a higher grade in order to advance your career and where it would actually benefit you to go for a lower grade. Join us inside my group coaching intensive, Executive Ahead of Time . B...

Ep #108: How to Escape a Toxic Workplace By Focusing on Yourself Do you work in a toxic environment? Chances are if you work with other people, you are going to experience some form of toxicity. That’s because all human beings have some form of unconscious bias. And once you understand that toxic environments happen at work – that it’s the nature of us as inherently flawed human beings to bring ou...

Ep #107: How To Be Recognized For Your Powerful, Executive-Level Decisions Corporate badasses like YOU are already making big, bold decisions that make a serious impact at your organization All. The. Time. Yet…you’re still struggling to be recognized for it. Why? It’s because making executive-level decisions are meaningless unless you are able to COMMUNICATE them with the leadership team. But, I h...

Ep #106 - Get Promoted to the Executive Suite Before Your Next Performance Review (Live Webinar) Many corporate women get stuck transitioning into senior executive leadership, not because they aren’t qualified but because they don’t know what it’s really going to take to get there.  In this recording of my most popular webinar, I will teach you my proven Promotion Blueprint that will help you go f...

Re-Release: 5 Things Executive Leaders Do Differently Than YOU In today’s re-release episode, I am sharing the five key differences between what senior executive leaders are doing to advance their careers, and what leaders like YOU are doing right now. Now, I want to make this super clear: You have so much in common with these senior executive leaders. But, there are a few tweaks you could start m...

Ep #105: Our Most Exciting Breakthroughs in Women’s Leadership in 2021 Oh, the things we have accomplished this year! As we approach the end of 2021, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on everything we have done to help powerhouse corporate women (like you) advance to a higher level of leadership this year – and I want you to use these wins as inspiration for what is possible for you in 20...

Ep #104: When Women Earn, We All Win with Eleanor Beaton Eleanor Beaton is on a mission to 2X the number of women entrepreneurs who generate over $1 in sales by 2030. But before she worked solely with women entrepreneurs, she worked with very influential women CEOs of major corporations. And do you want to know what she noticed? These senior executive leaders had missions, too, and they were out-d...