Madison Butler

Author. Speaker. Former CPO. Champion for human-centered leadership.

Work Your Way: For High Performers Rethinking Success

Wiley-VCH

LinkedIn

Juneteenth Conference

Gravity Speakers

Learn whether you're building a career you want or chasing someone else's definition of success.

Why your career keeps stalling in “should” mode

Uncover hidden career patterns, question old assumptions, and design a path that fits you.

Permission/ Pattern/ Plan 101

Identify what's working, what's draining you, and what needs to change before making your next move.

Audit Your Career like a Strategist

Turn your values, strengths, ambitions, and constraints into a practical framework for making better career decisions.

Build Your Own Blueprint

You'll walk away with more confidence about what you want next and a roadmap for getting there.

Work/life expert and bestselling author

Simone Stolzoff

IDEO Design Lead and bestselling Author of The Good Enough Job

Cohort 10

Cohort 11

Design Thinking is a creative approach to finding clarity amidst ambiguity. In this course, you'll be guided through how to apply Design Thinking to your own career exploration.The course itself is broken down into four sessions: Ground, Diverge, Converge, and Plan which will help you articulate your values, explore the career possibilities available to you, design experiments to figure out what you want, and plan your short, medium, and long-term next steps.Instead of spinning your wheels about what's next for your career, you'll follow a step-by-step process to determine what you value and plan your next move.

Clarify what you want with the help of Design Thinking

A step-by-step framework for intentional career design

Tips for navigating job searches and career transitions

Research-backed tools becoming more fulfilled and resilient 

Curious explorers who are ready for a change in their life but aren't clear on exactly what they're looking for

Overworked professionals who move a mile-a-minute but don't have the space to take a step back and reflect

Passionate generalists who feel pulled in multiple directions but aren't sure which path they want to choose

How to close the gaps between your effort and visible impact so you become indispensable and unlock career progress: ratings, scope, promos.

19+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn

Procter & Gamble

Co-Active Training Institute

Sudha Ranganathan

Nearly 20 years leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn | Trained Coach and Facilitator 

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

You're working hard and delivering results. And your career still feels... stuck. Your ratings, scope, and promotions haven't moved. A. You're not imagining itB. The issue is not with your talent or effort It's actually 3 specific gaps standing between your effort and the visible impact that makes you indispensable to your organization. Gap #1: Your effort isn't pointed at what the org values: everything seems equally urgent, and shifting context, limited capacity, and new asks keep pulling you off course. Gap #2: Priorities lose momentum on the way to execution: you don't have time to align and inform everyone in the org, but skip the ones that matter, and their input or disagreement shows up mid-project, when it's hardest to manage. Gap #3: Impact doesn't translate into visible reputation: even when the work is impactful, the right people (especially your manager and senior leaders) can't see it, speak to it, or advocate for it. Knowing how to close these gaps isn't some innate trait.It's a learnable set of skills, whether you're an IC or a People Manager, and it's exactly what you will learn in this course. 3 live sessions: 9 AM to 1:30 PM PT on Oct 24, Nov 7, and Nov 14.

What's Actually Stalling Your Career Progress

Know how to prioritize and resource what matters to the business

Keep priorities on course amidst context shifts and new incoming asks

Protect momentum as you turn priorities into execution

Manage your manager: maximize value to and from your most critical stakeholder

Help your impact travel, even when you're not in the room

At your level, strong work alone isn't enough. The onus of delivering visible impact and earning advocacy falls on you.

You're a Senior IC or People Manager in a complex organization

Including stakeholder conversations and applying what you learned in live sessions to your work.

You're willing to do the work between sessions

This is for strong performers who are self-aware and eager to operate at the next level

You believe you have room to grow, and want to

Stalling Momentum Despite Strong Effort: You're an IC or Manager doing the work, but ratings, scope, and visibility aren't following.

Credibility in a New Context: You've been through a reorg or leadership change and need to re-establish reputation, as an IC or a Manager.

Recently Promoted, Newly Accountable: You've stepped into a larger scope and the stakes for visible impact are different, and higher.

When "successful on paper" stops feeling like enough.

Senior SWE @ MSFT & Licensed Therapist

Microsoft

Qualtrics

Univesity College London

Rachel Slater

Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Licensed Therapist

AI Advisor, Leadership Coach, ex-MSFT

Techstars

Air France

Siemens

Oumaima Talouka

AI Advisor & Leadership Coach | Director @ The AI Collective | Ex-Microsoft

You know the feeling. You've built solid experience and delivered results, yet something's off.The imposter voice keeps you playing small (louder than ever as AI reshapes what “valuable” means). Burnout drains your energy. The quiet plateau begins to feel less like stability, more like drift.You're not broken. You're navigating a market that shifted under your feet. Whether you're in transition, pushing for promotion, or tired of feeling stuck amid layoffs &amp; change, the old advice falls flat.That's why this 4-hour Career Lab exists. No fluffy motivation: a hands-on space for 2026 realities. We dig into what's holding you back, clear the noise &amp; fears, and help you see new possibilities.You'll audit what drains you vs. what lights you up, uncover your unfair advantage, craft an authentic narrative that opens doors, &amp; design experiments you can start tomorrow.By the end, the fog lifts. You leave with a concrete unstuck plan &amp; the edge that makes you stand out.Corporate professionals love the real traction. Those in transition love that it's honest &amp; doable when the market feels brutal.Spots are limited. If you're ready to stop spinning &amp; start moving forward, this is your entry point.

You've got the "perfect on paper" 9-5 job. But you're restless, stuck, and quietly done playing a role you've outgrown.

You're navigating a layoff, a career gap, or a pivot, and you're done waiting for clarity to magically arrive.

You've watched AI reshape the world of work. You're ready to get clear, get strategic, and take control of your next career move.

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

GTM Engineer | Networking Strategist

Inter-American Dialogue

FinDev Canada

Valsoft Corporation

McGill University

Ivana Wang

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

Tech Leader | Career & Mindset Coach

Salesforce

Slalom

UC Berkeley

Ryan McNeely

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

Financial Mentor | Vision into Value

Johnson & Johnson

Deutsche Bank

Tenant Inc.

Columbia University

Kevin Jaimes

CEO | Financial Mentor to Founders | Scaling Vision to Value

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. Kevin Jaimes closes with the science: a quantum mechanics framework that explains, with mathematical rigor, why your mental state directly shapes the opportunities you attract.Three instructors. Three disciplines. One complete system for unlocking the career you have been building toward.

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

Master the art of strategic networking and meaningful outreach

Master the inner resilience that makes your strategy sustainable

Master the science behind growth, setbacks, and lasting career success

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.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Getting promoted, navigating job transitions, and advancing to the next level in your career.