Become Indispensable: Get Your Career Progress Unstuck
Sudha Ranganathan
19+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn
What's Actually Stalling Your Career Progress
You're working hard and delivering results. And your career still feels... stuck. Your ratings, scope, and promotions haven't moved.
The issue is not 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 important, 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 everyone in the org, but if you skip the ones that matter, 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 operating system, 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 you’ll learn
How to close the gaps between your effort and visible impact
Focus your energy where you deliver unique value and business impact
Distribute your capacity selectively by priority type instead of peanut-buttering your energy across them all
Protect priorities from shifting context and competing asks, or choose to pivot for the right reasons
Navigate differing points of view with stakeholders, without being 'too collaborative' or 'too difficult'
Know which stakeholders to prioritize for alignment as you move towards execution
Engage the right stakeholders at the right time for the right reasons, so misalignment doesn't derail impact
Anticipate and decode the real ask, without becoming high-maintenance or an order-taker
Get input and advocacy on your work, without blowing up scope or timelines
Equip your manager to speak to your impact, even in rooms you're not in
Build reputation with senior leaders so they can see your impact, speak to it, and advocate for it
Learn directly from Sudha
Sudha Ranganathan
18+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn | Trained Coach and Workshop facilitator
Who this course is for
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're accountable for more than before and you need to prove impact in a new capacity
Prerequisites
You're a Senior IC or People Manager in a complex organization
At your level, strong work alone isn't enough. The onus of delivering visible impact and earning advocacy falls on you.
You're willing to do the work between sessions
Including stakeholder conversations and applying what you learned in live sessions to your work.
You believe you have room to grow, and want to
This is for strong performers who are self-aware and eager to operate at the next level
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Sudha Ranganathan in a real-time, interactive format.
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.
Classroom exercises
To help you build and apply the skills you're learning in class
Homework exercises
For real-time application to your unique business, team and organizational context.
Leave behind templates
To help you easily reference and track progress against the skills you learned, even after you've exited the course
Real-Time Coaching on Your Real Situations
A learner favorite from Cohort 1! Bring the situations you're actually facing right at work and get asynchronous coaching from Sudha on how to apply frameworks from class to your specific business, team, and organizational context.
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Course syllabus
4 live sessions • 25 lessons
Week 1
Apr
18
Session 1: Live Cohort
Map your team's work to business impact and understand your stakeholder system
Integrated workbook for classwork and homework
Session 1 Slide Deck
Framework for further prioritization within Tier 1s and 2s
Week 2
Apply Session 1 frameworks to your work context before Session 2
Free resource
Managing Your Manager: How to Deliver Value AND Extract It
Deliver Indispensable Value to Your Manager
There's a gap between what's asked and what's needed. Learn to close it.
Extract Value Most Leaders Leave on the Table
Your manager has context and access you're not using. Learn how to activate them as your strategic asset.
Diagnose Where You're Leaving Value on the Table
A quick diagnostic to pinpoint where you're leaving value on the table and action plan accordingly.
Schedule
Live sessions
3 hrs / week
Interactive workshops with frameworks, exercises, and peer discussion
Sat, Apr 18
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Sat, May 9
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Sat, May 23
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Sat, Jun 6
4:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1-2 hrs / week
Conversations with your manager, stakeholders, and team—guided by interview maps and question banks I provide
Async content
1-2 hrs / week
Apply frameworks to your real context using structured templates I provide for each session
Testimonials
- Sudha's was easily the best session of the 2-day conference. Actionable, intelligent, candid and precise insights. While other presentations felt canned and theoretical, Sudha invited questions and ensured everyone learned things useful to them. I walked away with steps I put into practice.
Ana Maria Romay, Attendee at past workshop on Strategic leadership
Creative director - Product, Brand, UX - Your framework for architecting influence was eye-opening. I often think my approach is efficient, but I don't always gain true alignment—people do as I ask without real buy-in. Seeing your approach helped me realize what I was missing and gave me a clear path forward.
Attendee at 2023 workshop
Entrepreneur - The section on elevating the team to business partner resonated with me most. It's second nature to get stuck in an inbound request holding pattern without feeling empowered to push back. The portion on turning objectives into OKRs was immediately useful.
Karl Henrik Smith, Attendee at past Workshop
Ex-Marketing at Okta, Cloudfare, Currently MBA student at London Business School - I really enjoyed how you gave tangible steps to gain influence and be strategic in an organization - it made me realize that it doesn't need to be as complicated as everyone makes it seem. I'm looking forward to utilizing the steps from the working portion, when I need to ruthlessly prioritize or make a bigger stakes decision.
Stephanie Sullivan, Attendee at past workshop
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