Self-Advocacy for Growing Your Technology Career
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Master self-advocacy to authentically communicate your value. Confidently plan for the promotions, money, and job satisfaction you deserve!
Self-Advocacy for Growing Your Technology Career
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Master self-advocacy to authentically communicate your value. Confidently plan for the promotions, money, and job satisfaction you deserve!
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Course overview
Take the reins of your career into your own hands. Let's go get what you deserve
This is a weekend-immersive course with ~7 hrs of live sessions spread across 2 days in a single weekend.
Course outcomes:
🎯 Develop critical career skills that enables you to get rewarded for the value you add
🎯 Practice by applying frameworks that help you land a promotion, negotiate compensation, and optimize for happiness at work
🎯 Build your customized plan to ensure advocating for your career success never takes a back-seat
🎯 Evaluate the challenges you face with self-advocacy. Connect with Shailvi and peers in the course to come up with practical solutions
The course includes:
✔️ Frameworks (List coming soon)
✔️ Templates (List coming soon)
✔️ Sample scripts with specific words and phrases you can use/adapt to advocate for yourself
✔️ Case studies of successful and unsuccessful attempts at self-advocacy
✔️ Group discussions
✔️ Self-reflection exercises
✔️ Projects that draft your next key career outcome
✔️ Access to 1-1 time with Shailvi
✔️ An author-signed copy of the 'Self-Advocacy' book by Shailvi
This course is based on:
⭐ Conversations and the interactions I have had with 500+ students / mentees in the last 5 years
⭐ Almost 100 speaking engagements that reached 6000+ attendees
⭐ My best-selling book on Self-Advocacy that reached #6 in the Business and Negotiation Category on Amazon
Testimonials from past learners:
"..not only imparts practical strategies but also offers a profound shift in perspective, encouraging us to shed the cultural shyness that may hold us back from advocating for ourselves" - F Zhang
"Useful especially as you oscillate between fighting the imposter syndrome and practicing humility as well as finding your balance of mental health in corporate & professional settings." - Piyush M
"My favorite part of it is that it gives a very actionable framework and set of tools to learn and improve on self advocacy" - Anna
"[Shailvi] lays out such a clear path to identify what those needs are and how to reach a level of personal belief in your skills and worth that it seems impossible to fail at getting what you want and deserve." - Christine B
"Shailvi doesn't just preach; she shows you how this newfound skill can transform your career and life." - Jun
"Shailvi, thanks for the amazing session [..] on navigating job promotions! I've been reaching out to my school's alumni network [..] trying to hear some semblance to the advice you presented today" - Serena L
"It was eye opening and something I needed to hear at this point. The flow in content was just perfect and it was so impactful." - Ritika
"Self-advocacy is a topic that is not openly discussed and it should be. [..] The steps were also assertive but realistic at the same time." - LTP
Who will benefit from this course
01
Mid-career tech professionals looking to own their career growth, including members of underrepresented groups that lack supportive mentors
02
Anyone ready to create a plan to get promoted, be acknowledged for their work, get better work opportunities, or prioritize job satisfaction
03
Those who struggle to position themselves for success at work, due to underconfidence, introversion, shyness, fear, anxiety, or ineloquence
What you’ll get out of this course
Develop critical career skills that enable you to get rewarded for the value you add
Success depends on your ability to articulate your impact clearly and consistently. By the end of the course, you will learn frameworks and apply the formula to choose the most effective language to position your accomplishments in a way that can help land the desired outcomes.
Practice by applying playbooks that help you land a promotion, negotiate compensation, and optimize for happiness at work
Specific career milestones benefit from an intentional plan. Master the step-by-step frameworks that you can use for big career moments. Develop a plan tailored to your situation, and practice in live sessions by role-playing scenarios, and exploring case studies.
Build your customized plan to ensure advocating for your career success never takes a back-seat
Committing to being intentional about self-advocacy is a gift to yourself and an investment in your betterment. Design a plan to consistently improve your self-advocacy muscle until it becomes 2nd nature. Learn how to measure success on your journey to hold yourself accountable.
Evaluate the challenges you face with self-advocacy and brainstorm with peers on practical solutions
Improve your awareness of your challenges in advocating for yourself through group discussions and self-reflection. Prioritize building a supportive network that holds you accountable to relentless self-advocacy, starting with your co-learners in this course.
This course includes
3 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
20 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
2 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Self-Advocacy for Growing Your Technology Career
Course syllabus
Week 1
Feb
1
Day 1: Modules 1-3 [Self-Advocacy Techniques]
Feb
2
Day 2: Modules 4-7 [Landing Important Outcomes & Staying Intentional]
Post-course
Feb
6
Optional: Office Hours w/ Shailvi
1. Self-advocacy Language: Reframing the External Narrative
2. Proactive self-advocacy: Strategically Nailing Common Forums Every Day
3. Reactive self-advocacy: Opportunistically tackling challenges
Day 1 Project
4. Navigating a Job Promotion
5. Negotiating compensation
6. Happiness at work
7. Create an Intentional Self-Advocacy Plan
Day 2 Project
Praise from industry leaders
Mark Gainey
Mike Micucci
Meet your instructor
Shailvi Wakhlu
Best-Selling Author | International Keynote Speaker | Ex-Head of Data
Shailvi Wakhlu is an Author, International Keynote Speaker, and Technology Leader. She is the former Head of Data & Analytics at Strava and Komodo Health. Her sixteen-year data and engineering career has included companies such as Salesforce, Fitbit, and a software startup she co-founded. Shailvi’s self-advocacy expertise comes from being a practitioner at tech startups and large companies across three continents.
Wakhlu speaks on self-advocacy and data at twenty-five or more global conferences and Fortune 500 corporate events each year. She offers individual and group coaching and has helped hundreds of people grow their self-advocacy skills and reach important career milestones faster. She is also an investor and advisor to several high-growth startups.
Wakhlu grew up in India and studied Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech in Chicago. She loves to travel and has visited thirty-three countries. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, and their sixty plants.
Join an upcoming cohort
Self-Advocacy for Growing Your Technology Career
Winter cohort
$500
Dates
Payment Deadline
Course schedule
7-9 hours across one weekend
4 days before 1st session
1-2 hrs
The course opens for pre-reads and a self-reflection homework assignment.
Both days of live sessions
9:00am - 12:30pm PST
The required live sessions will be held across two days in a single weekend. Both days will cover 3-4 modules on each day, with breaks in between. Each day will end with a Q&A session.
Daily projects
30 mins/day
Both days of live sessions will include a project. While it is not required for the projects to be completed before the next class, completing them will greatly improve the value you can get out of our live time together.
Office Hours w/ Shailvi
15 mins slots
Each learner can sign up for a 15-minute slot with the instructor to get personalized suggestions at the end of the course.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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Join an upcoming cohort
Self-Advocacy for Growing Your Technology Career
Winter cohort
$500
Dates
Payment Deadline