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Influence & Executive Communication for High-Performing Women

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Influence & Executive Communication for High-Performing Women

Shivani Berry

Fortune 500 coach to 5,000+ women

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July 31—Aug 10, 2026

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Aug 10—Sep 19, 2026

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Get buy-in. Confidently get promoted. Be leadership's go-to.

NOTE: THE COHORT IS SELF-PACED AND FULLY ASYNCHRONOUS. You'll get access to all the recorded content, plug-and-play tools, and bonuses on day one, and you work through it at whatever pace fits your life.

There are optional office hours where Shivani will coach you on your specific challenges.

Doing the work well is the part of your job AI is already taking over. Getting people to support your idea and seek your input is the part it can't. Influence is the job now, and it's what your next promotion or growth opportunity gets decided on.

You get told to "be more strategic" or "build executive presence," and no one tells you what to actually do differently in your next meeting.

Leverage the course to nail your next critical meeting. You'll apply the tools directly to your work challenges.

5,000+ high-performing women from top companies including Google, Anthropic, and Salesforce have used the tools to:

Confidently win over difficult stakeholders (especially dominant personalities)
Land promotions and raises
Get buy-in on their ideas in last-minute meetings
Strategically communicate ad hoc feedback in Slack

Companies have reported their participants get promoted 3.7x faster than their peers.

What you’ll learn

You'll get your recommendations approved, hold your own in senior rooms, and build a case that puts you on the promotion track.

Run ASCEND, the six-part buy-in framework, so stakeholders arrive invested instead of being asked to endorse a finished idea
Surface the real objection before the meeting, not during it
Line up allies before you're in the room, so the decision is half-made when you walk in

Word-for-word language for the moment you're asked something you didn't prepare for
Structure any message so senior people follow it the first time
Rehearse the hard questions with AI beforehand, which is why this works if you think before you speak

What to actually say when someone talks over you or dismisses your recommendation
How dominant personalities operate, and which approach works on which type
Say no to your manager, with options, without becoming "difficult"

Define your leadership brand in terms your manager can repeat when you're not in the room
Navigate the double bind with specific actions, not adjectives
Interrupt imposter syndrome with strategies thousands of women here have used

Deliver difficult feedback with the 8-step framework so it's received, not resented
Prepare for the defensive reaction before it happens
Become someone people give real feedback to, so you find blind spots faster

Turn six weeks into one Influence Roadmap: your allies, your visibility plan, your advocacy language for the next 12 months
Communicate your impact so it doesn't feel like bragging and doesn't get ignored
Reuse it every review cycle for the rest of your career

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Shivani Berry

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Shivani Berry

Coached 5,000+ women at Fortune 500 to get buy-in, get visible, and rise.

Shivani has coached 5,000+ women, from the Fortune 500 to high-growth startups, to get buy-in, get visible, and rise. Companies that sponsor her programs report their participants are promoted 3.7x more than peers.

She reaches a 110,000+ community, contributes to Lenny's Newsletter, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Nasdaq. She's a LinkedIn Learning instructor with an MBA from Harvard Business School, and spent years as a product leader in tech before founding Arise Leadership. Companies like Salesforce, HelloFresh, and Autodesk bring her in to develop their top women.

"When I got promoted to manager, I didn't ask for the raise. Nobody was doing that to me. I was doing it to myself. I built this to hand you the playbook I didn't have."

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Who this course is for

ICs in engineering, product, marketing, sales, etc. Minimum 3+ years of experience.
Managers. You have direct reports/dotted-line reports, or have to get buy-in cross-functionally without formal authority.
High-potential women with a review or promotion cycle coming up who want to ensure they don't miss another cycle or growth opportunity.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Shivani Berry in a real-time, interactive format.

Plug-and-play tools and scripts

Word-for-word language for the moments you freeze: the pushback, the ask, the interruption, the update, the conversation you have been putting off.

Bite-sized video lessons

Six modules of short, practical lessons with frameworks, case studies and real examples. No lectures, no theory. Watch one on your commute and use it that afternoon.

AI prompt packs

Leverage AI to prep the exec meeting, pressure-test your argument before someone else does, draft the hard email, rehearse the feedback conversation — without AI slop

Exercises and role plays

Applied to a meeting already on your calendar, which is why most members say it does not cost them extra time.

Lifetime access

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

Bonus: The Women Exec Interview Vault

Senior leaders candidly share failures, how they advocated for themselves and won buy-in, including Salesforce COO, Google SVP, Uber Engineering leader, and bestselling author of Radical Candor.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer and/or on LinkedIn.

Bonus: Recognition Toolkit

Actionable scripts, AI prompts, 1:1 and email templates to help you advocate for yourself.

Bonus: AI communications coach

Trained on 5,000 high-performers work — leverage it to draft a quality message in 2 minutes that would've taken you 20. Share updates that make your impact visible.

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Course syllabus

11 lessons • 2 projects

Week 1

Jul 31—Aug 2

Module 1: Storytelling Intensive

8 items

Week 2

Aug 3—Aug 9

Module 2: Lead with Impact

5 items

Schedule

Live sessions

1-1 hr / week

Optional live coaching sessions

Projects

1 hr / week

Applied directly to your existing work; self-paced.

Async content

1-1 hr / week

Self-paced. Bite-sized video lessons with practical frameworks and case studies.

Testimonials

I was promoted using the tools from this program. I used the skills I developed to clearly ask for an opportunity that I typically would have shied away from. I love that the templates and case studies are immediately actionable. They've helped me cultivate my leadership brand and take on more responsibility.
Ashleigh
Engineer, Atlassian
I landed a senior role within Google!The program tools gave me the confidence that I am the right person for the job and enabled me to be more structured in my responses. Before the program, I would ramble because I felt nervous. This helped me focus on facts and not feelings. The facts show that I can do the job.
Catharina
Lead, Retail Solutions, Google
I got $1M in funding for my team by using these tools. I typically shy away from speaking up in executive meetings, but the program tools gave me the confidence and structure to strategically advocate for my team in a C-level executive meeting and ultimately secure an increased budget. I was on top of the world when our CFO approved my ask instantaneously.
Satang
Principal Program Manager, Twilio
I was invited to a surprise fire-drill type situation yesterday that had very senior folks invited. I only had 1.5 hours to prepare, and I used the meeting prep worksheet. The meeting went so well that the CEO sent me a Slack telling me I did incredible. He used three exclamation marks.
Anne
Security Compliance Program Manager, FullStory
As an introvert, I had a difficult time pitching ideas. I was scared to generate conflict in meetings or that my proposals were too out there. Learning about buy-in was essential for me to advocate for myself and start co-creating with my team. It sounds pretty rudimentary, but it takes a lot of preparation, and the program gave me the structure I needed.
Zara
Software Engineering Manager, Salesforce
I was able to immediately apply my learnings to win over a Senior Director in a meeting He was impressed by how much structure and clarity I brought to the conversation. Before the program I didn't know the first steps in securing buy-in, and now I have a complete roadmap.
Deepthi
Product Manager, Zendesk

Trusted by 5,000+ women from the Fortune 500, Big Tech, and startups

Women from Google, Salesforce, Amazon, Uber, Visa, Atlassian, Twilio, LinkedIn, Slack, HubSpot, Zendesk, Autodesk, SAP, Box, Cisco and Shopify have trained with Shivani. Companies that sponsor Arise report their participants are promoted 3.7x more than peers.

Featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Nasdaq, First Round Review and LinkedIn Learning.

Frequently asked questions

Come when you can. Every session is recorded and the library is searchable, so if someone brings the exact situation you're facing, you can find it later.

Lessons are bite-sized and self-paced, so you set the pace. Most members watch a lesson or two a week and spend the rest of the time applying it to work they already had to do. There's no minimum you have to hit to get value.

People quit programs because they fall behind a cohort. There's no cohort here. Start when you enroll, pause when work explodes, pick it back up. And because the lessons are short and immediately usable, you get something out of the first one.

Women who are already good at the work and want their ideas backed, their scope to grow, and a real say in the decisions. Senior ICs, staff engineers, tech leads, new and first-line managers, and anyone with a review or promotion cycle coming up.

Anyone looking for a video library to half-watch, a shortcut instead of a real skill, or a program whose premise is that you need more confidence. That is not the premise here.

Yes. Getting buy-in without formal authority is the whole job on a staff or principal track. Nothing in this course assumes you have direct reports.

No. This is technique, not personality. The impromptu-speaking module was built for people who think before they speak, and you can rehearse the hard question with AI before anyone asks it.

Often, yes. It qualifies for leadership development budgets and AI upskilling budgets. You'll get a sponsorship letter template and tips when you enroll, and plenty of members have had the full tuition covered.

The Accelerator is a facilitated cohort program companies buy for their teams, with weekly live sessions and peer circles. This is the individual edition: the same curriculum and frameworks, on your schedule, with live group coaching instead of a fixed cohort.

Yes. Email shivani@ariseleadership.com to discuss.

No. You can be in a job or between roles. You should have current or past situations where you struggled to convince people to support your ideas and advocate for yourself.

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