Career Momentum Lab: Network, get unstuck, and create opportunity

Ivana Wang

Solutions Consultant | Pivot Strategist

Nora Michalski

Tech Leader | Career Mentor

+ Ryan McNeely

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Tactics get you started. Mindset and science get you unstuck.

Most career workshops give you a system and send you home. You take notes, feel motivated, open your laptop the next day, and then something stops you. The message goes unsent. The follow-up never happens. The momentum disappears.

That gap between knowing and doing is not a tactics problem. It never was.

This workshop covers three layers that every other career program treats separately, if at all. Ivana Wang opens with the GPS System: a proven networking methodology that gets tech professionals into the hidden job market through strategic outreach, not job boards.

Ryan McNeely goes deeper with the mindset layer most career programs skip, drawing on decades of study in ancient wisdom and human performance. Nora Michalski closes with the confidence and consistency layer, guiding you through her multidisciplinary Greenlight Protocol™ to identify and shift the internal resistance that keeps you from taking confident, consistent action in your networking and career.

Three instructors. Three disciplines. One complete system for unlocking the career you have been building toward.

What you’ll learn

Go from avoiding outreach to executing a system built around how you actually think and communicate.

  • Use a structured framework to build your target contact list and expand your network in a meaningful way

  • Learn LinkedIn branding, what to write, when to follow up, and how to get a meeting booked

  • In person networking mastery: show up to any in-person setting with clarity, intention, and build genuine connections

  • Break through the fear, self doubt, and negativity that stop most professionals before they even begin

  • Learn to handle rejection with grace and keep moving forward without losing momentum or going quiet

  • Build the inner foundation that makes everything you do externally land with greater impact

  • Shift into a calm, focused state before networking conversations, interviews, and negotiations.

  • Use breath and awareness tools to quiet self-doubt, handle rejection, and stay grounded in an uncertain job market.

  • Execute your plan inside a structured 21-day sprint with live support and hot seat coaching on Day 14

Workshop agenda

  • Why Tactics Alone Are Not Enough

    Ivana opens with why smart tech professionals follow all the career advice and still feel stuck. Sets up the three-pillar framework: modern networking, ancient wisdom, and quantum science.

  • Online Outreach: The Updated LinkedIn Framework

    Learn what changed on LinkedIn and why old outreach no longer works. Build your target contact list live and draft your first message using the updated framework that gets responses.

  • In-Person Networking: Five Settings, One System

    Conferences, meetups, coffee chats, internal events, casual settings. Each has a specific approach covering who to approach, what to say, and what to do in the 48 hours after.

  • Break

    10 minutes

  • Mindset Reset: Break Through Fear and Self Doubt

    Nora leads the Fear Audit to name what has been stopping your outreach. Learn how to handle rejection without losing momentum and rewire your confidence before you ever hit send.

  • Break

    10 minutes

  • The Science of Calm Action

    Ryan explains how meditation, breathwork, and brain-state training help you move through hesitation, rejection, and pressure so you can take clearer action in your career.

  • Hot Seat Q&A with All Three Instructors

    Live coaching from Ivana, Nora, and Ryan on real situations from the room. Three perspectives on the same career challenge is something you cannot get anywhere else.

Learn directly from expert instructors

Ivana Wang

Ivana Wang

Career strategist, 4 pivots across 4 industries, tripled salary landing in AI

Inter-American Dialogue
FinDev Canada
Valsoft Corporation
McGill University
Nora Michalski

Nora Michalski

Silicon Valley mentor helping high-achievers move from stuck to strategic

Apple
Intuit
Logitech
Ryan McNeely

Ryan McNeely

Tech founder, 15+ yrs Silicon Valley, blends ancient wisdom with career strategy

Salesforce
Meta
Slalom
UC Berkeley
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Who this workshop is for

  • Tech professionals who have been applying for months with little to show for it and know networking is the answer but not where to start.

  • Tech professionals planning a career pivot who want to access opportunities before they are ever posted publicly.

  • Introverted tech professionals who have tried networking, felt drained and awkward, and quietly concluded it just is not for them.

What's included

Three instructors, one session

An AI career strategist and a Silicon Valley career mentor guide you through both sides of career growth: the external strategy of networking and the internal work of taking action with confidence.

Personalized outreach audit

Get your real LinkedIn messages reviewed live. You’ll learn what to change, why it matters, and how to make your outreach feel natural, credible, and effective.

Inner resistance breakthrough

Learn how procrastination, fear of rejection, and hesitation can quietly block your highest-leverage career actions, and how to move through them with more clarity and self-trust.

Complete career toolkit

Leave with a Fear Audit worksheet, personalized outreach target list, AI-era message frameworks, and follow-up templates you can use immediately.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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