How to Tell If Your Career Is Stalling

Hosted by Temidayo Afonja

Thu, Aug 20, 2026

11:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Spot when strong performance is masking stalled growth

See why doing excellent work does not automatically mean your role is expanding your judgment, skills, or future range.

Test whether being indispensable is building your options

Recognize when being highly valued inside one organization is not increasing what you can carry elsewhere.

Use recent evidence to find what deserves a closer look

Use one example from your last 90 days to identify what deserves a closer reading before a larger career move.

Why this topic matters

You can be performing well in a role that has quietly stopped building you. Strong reviews, greater responsibility, and being indispensable can all hide a loss of learning or future options. This lesson helps you recognize three patterns before a reorganization, an external opportunity, or a change in your role makes the question urgent.

You'll learn from

Temidayo Afonja

Organizational capability strategist & author

Temidayo Afonja is an organizational capability strategist and founder of The Density Group. For nearly two decades, she has worked across PwC, Deloitte, EY, and senior enterprise leadership in roles spanning talent, employee experience, organizational capability, cybersecurity, and transformation. Her work has placed her inside the rooms where performance, promotion, capability, and organizational change are assessed. Today, she studies a question many capable professionals encounter but struggle to name: whether the work they are performing well is still building the judgment, skills, and future options they will need next. She developed Capability Formation to make that position easier to read. She is the author of The Capability Audit.

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