For Women in Male-Dominated Industries: How to Grow Your Influence Without Burning Out
You don’t want just any kind of influence, but strategic influence because you like to be on purpose, and you have milestones to achieve that involve others.
What if the path to more strategic influence isn’t another leadership book, yet another how-to guide, or more efforting to prove yourself, pedaling hard when you’re already running on fumes?
Instead, you want to give yourself more choice, a wider range of responses when situations throw you off your game:
Suck-up Sam gets the project you wanted
Boisterous Bob cuts you off in a meeting, or
Petty Pat writes you a passive-aggressive performance review
Because the person with the most flexibility in a system has the most influence.
Until now, your default response may have been to freeze and shut down, or to double down on beating yourself up.
“What if this means I’m good enough,” says a judgy voice in your head.
That’s a narrow range of responses to situations with no clear-cut answers.
That’s why, in my bespoke executive coaching practice for women leaders, I support my clients in growing their response potential.
From pissed off and shut down, to letting the clarity of righteous anger help you set and keep boundaries around what’s acceptable and what’s not.
From internalizing blame and feeling overwhelmed, to open, grounded curiosity that helps you see the 10,000-foot view and maintain neutrality, no matter who’s being unreliable.
From overcompensating for perceived weaknesses, to assertively asking for and receiving support, because strategic influence is about growing your group of selected allies.
When your response potential and strategic influence grow this way, your future potential grows as well.
And you get to decide whether that future potential shows up in
How solid you feel in your day-to-day team leadership, because you know that you’re resourceful and choice-full
How effectively you advocate for your advancement and secure it, because your champions have already gone to bat for you
Or how you pave your own path out of unhappy jobs and become your own boss, build a business, or begin a completely new career
When you’re ready to stop absorbing the Sams, Bobs, and Pats of your workplace and start responding with greater choice, book a free one-hour consultation with me.
Here’s what you can do ahead of the consultation with me:
Bring one situation that’s been wearing you down.
In that hour, we’ll map out a custom strategy for responding to it with more flexibility, so you can build the strategic influence you’re after. Then we’ll explore the impact that will have on your life and career.
You don’t need to prepare anything else. But if you really like to do your homework, you can read through the pricing, process, and philosophy of my coaching, which are all spelled out here.