Success Story: Career Vision For Moms
Lauren’s Next Level Leadership: From Fortune 100 High Performer to a Leadership Lifestyle That Works
Unclear Vision
Lauren has no trouble executing. She’s one of those sharp, focused people who work tirelessly when given a goal. That’s how she’d risen through the ranks at her Fortune 100 company.
Yet when we met, she felt stalled, working very hard while being a mother to more than a couple of children. She had been working toward a promotion but couldn’t see how it could happen in a satisfying timeline. If it were possible to make it work at her current company, she would try. But barring that, she may have to explore external options.
No matter her plan, she needed to know that this uplevel would also be an upgrade. Once she had a plan, she could move forward. Without one, she found herself treading water, albeit furiously.
Vision Is Revision
When she envisioned her long-term career future, Lauren found herself defining a whole new sector of her field.
Three weeks into our engagement, she laid out a visionary roadmap for her niche in marketing–something only the most sophisticated companies could implement but, in her eyes, would make an exponential difference to businesses.
Set about creating an internal presentation for her boss, he also started researching other companies who might be open to this visionary message.
What she found wasn’t encouraging. The opportunity was new, very new. She’d have to spend a bunch of time convincing people to see the opportunity, let alone demand it. That was possible.
However, her timeline was shorter than that.
Then an internal reorg happened.
She had the option to change teams.
Her vision changed.
After being on a hard-driving leadership track for years, and in this particular season of life, this was the moment when Lauren realized her priorities had shifted.
If you try, sometimes, you get what you need
It seemed she was back where she had started. The answer to “What do I want?” had been answered and addressed.
But another question emerged: “What do I need?” a.k.a. “What do I actually want?”
Here were her answers:
Flexibility to work from home and spend time with her children
To get a senior leadership role that gave her broader exposure to other parts of the marketing business and set her up for a VP role if she chose to pursue one
A $100K bump
Within 2 months of making that decision, she had presented so convincingly of the opportunities at the next company that she signed a deal at a higher level than the role that was originally proposed and gotten the promotion at her original company.
Lauren’s a visionary in her field. Her ideas about moving her industry forward were ahead of their time. And her kids will only be young once. By reprioritizing and rightsizing her immediate vision, she still got exactly what she needed while keeping her leadership stance.
Can working womxn have it all? Debatable. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to try.
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