Executive Momentum
Build the strategy, positioning, relationships, and capabilities required for what comes next.
Some career challenges are bigger than a single interview, a promotion conversation, or a networking push.
They involve building capabilities that remain key as your leadership, responsibilities, and ambitions grow.
Executive Development Programs provide deeper coaching around two areas that become increasingly important as careers advance: sponsorship and strategic relationships.
These programs are personalized around your goals, organization, existing relationships, and plan for what's next.
Every engagement begins with an Executive Strategy Call so we can determine what you need and how to shape the program around your situation.
Sponsor Ready
Your Career Leadership Team
Your Career Leadership Team
Sponsorship & Advocacy Development
Build authentic relationships with people who understand your value and will advocate for your advancement.
As careers advance, performance alone does not always create access to the assignments, conversations, succession opportunities, introductions, and roles that lead to greater responsibility.
Sponsor Ready helps you understand where advocacy already exists, where it is missing, and how to intentionally build relationships with people who can speak credibly about your leadership when you are not in the room.
This is not about asking someone to “be your sponsor.”
It is about becoming someone influential people know, trust, understand, and are willing to advocate for.
IDENTITY — Become Sponsor Ready
We may work on:
- What you want next
- What you want to be known for
- How clearly your ambition is understood
- The leadership value and potential others need to see
- Evidence that demonstrates your readiness
- Your current reputation
- What makes you a credible advocacy investment
- The leadership story someone could confidently tell about you
INFLUENCE — Build Authentic Sponsorship
We may work on:
- Mentors versus sponsors versus advocates
- Where sponsorship may already exist
- Identifying potential sponsors and advocates
- Understanding who has influence over the opportunities you want
- Building relationships authentically
- Trust and reciprocity
- Executive exposure
- Strategic visibility
- Communicating ambition
- Helping others understand where you want to go
- Providing credible evidence others can advocate from
- Developing multiple sources of advocacy rather than relying on one person
INTEGRATION — Put Advocacy to Work
We may explore how sponsorship and advocacy can support:
- Stretch assignments
- Strategic introductions
- Executive exposure
- Succession opportunities
- Promotions
- Expanded scope
- Internal opportunities
- External opportunities
- Important career decisions
We also look at how sponsorship changes as your career advances and how to maintain, expand, and evolve your advocacy relationships over time.
You leave with:
A clear sponsorship strategy, greater understanding of who can influence your advancement, a map of current and potential advocates, stronger messaging around your ambition and value, and a practical plan for developing authentic advocacy relationships.
Typical timeframe: 6–8 weeks
Investment starts at: $2,250
Your Career Leadership Team
Your Career Leadership Team
Your Career Leadership Team
Strategic Career Relationships
Build the relationships you need now and next.
As your career evolves, you may need different people around you for different reasons: someone who challenges your thinking, someone who understands the organization, someone who opens doors, someone who advocates for you, someone who tells you the truth, or someone who brings an entirely different perspective.
Your Career Leadership Team helps you stop thinking about networking as simply knowing more people and start intentionally building a relationship ecosystem that supports your leadership, development, influence, and advancement.
IDENTITY — Determine What You Need
We begin with where you are headed.
We may explore:
- Your career direction
- Leadership ambitions
- Development priorities
- The relationships already surrounding you
- Relationship strengths and gaps
- Where you need insight
- Where you need challenge
- Where you need exposure
- Where you need access
- Where you need advocacy
- Which relationships will become increasingly important at your next level
INFLUENCE — Build Your Career Leadership Team
Your relationship ecosystem may include:
- Sponsors
- Mentors
- Advocates
- Connectors
- Strategic peers
- Truth tellers
- Industry relationships
- Cross-functional relationships
- Executive relationships
- Potential successors
- Mentees
The emphasis is not on collecting contacts.
We focus on building relationships through trust, mutual value, curiosity, generosity, and meaningful connection rather than transactional networking.
Together, we may work on:
- Identifying priority relationships
- Strengthening existing relationships
- Reconnecting with valuable contacts
- Building relationships across functions and organizations
- Expanding your industry relationships
- Developing strategic peer relationships
- Creating greater reciprocity
- Becoming a source of opportunity and support for others
INTEGRATION — Evolve the Team as Your Career Changes
Your Career Leadership Team should not remain static.
We may work on how to:
- Maintain important relationships over time
- Give as well as receive
- Recognize when a relationship needs to evolve
- Expand your network as your responsibilities increase
- Build relationships before you need something
- Stay connected as roles and circumstances change
- Rebuild your relationship ecosystem after changing organizations
- Develop relationships appropriate to a more senior level
- Continue becoming a mentor, advocate, sponsor, and connector for others
You leave with:
A clear picture of the relationships your career needs, a personalized Career Leadership Team map, identified relationship gaps and priorities, and a practical strategy for building, strengthening, and maintaining the relationships that matter most.
Typical timeframe: 8–12 weeks
Investment starts at: $2,500
Development That Is Built Around Your Career
These programs provide a structure, but they are not standardized coaching packages.
One client may come to Sponsor Ready with several strong advocates already in place but no senior-level sponsor. Another may have substantial executive visibility but has never clearly communicated her ambition.
One client may need to expand her Career Leadership Team outside her company. Another may need stronger peer, cross-functional, or executive relationships inside it.
That is why every engagement begins with an Executive Strategy Call.
We will discuss:
- Where you are now
- Where you want to go
- What relationships currently surround your career
- Where the greatest gaps or opportunities exist
- What you want to strengthen
- The level and type of support that makes sense for you
Your career determines where we focus.
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