Jamie Lee is an executive coach for smart women who hate office politics. She helps them get promoted and better paid without throwing anyone under the bus.
Featured in the Media
Publications
MS Now (Formerly MSNBC)
Quoted in the article: Two words that give your ideas instant credibility
“While phrases like ‘I think’, ‘I believe’ or ‘I sense’ soften our language and introduce subjectivity, using ‘I recommend’ — followed by a concrete suggestion — boosts our authority.”
The Actuary
Interviewed in: Advance Your Career When You Hate Office Politics
“The women who seek me out have big brains, big hearts and big intentions to be of service—all the crucial ingredients for the exact kind of leadership the professional world deeply needs.”
The Muse
Article: How to Deal With a Negotiation Bully
“Unfortunately, bad behavior happens more than you might expect at work—especially when it comes to negotiation. But while you can’t control the actions of others, you can control your response.”
Executive Woman Media
Quoted in the article: Executive Presence
“One of the best things you can do to feel confident is to borrow the thoughts and feelings of your future self: ‘I am valuable.’ ‘I have influence.’ You are the authority on your own career.”
Forbes
Interviewed in: The Truth About Self-Advocacy: Tips For Speaking Up and Earning More
Advocacy is not about selfishness or arrogance, but rather an opportunity to express the truth about your value and set the tone for a healthier workplace.
The Muse
Article: Getting Start-up Equity? Everything You Need to Know
Receiving equity in a start-up has its perks, but it is no simple matter. Here are some key questions to ask to make sure you know what you're getting.
Diversity Woman
Quoted in the article: Paying It Forward: The Do's and Don'ts of Asking for a Raise
“You want to tailor your communication so that it has their ears perking up. And you want to make sure you’re articulating it in a way that is future focused.”
The Muse
Article: My 3 Biggest Negotiation Mistakes (and How You Can Avoid Them)
“I am ultimately responsible for my own career—in fact, we all are. It's up to you to assume the power you already have, to speak up, to articulate your value, and to ask for what you’re worth.”
Podcasts
The Empathy Edge
Episode: Rewire Your Brain with Empathy to Better Stand Up For Yourself
“The brain adapts. The brain grows. It changes according to the practices that you expose it to. Compassion is the missing link that helps us be able to access those self-advocacy muscles for ourselves.”
She Thinks Big
Episode: Why Self-Advocacy Is the Secret to Confident Leadership
“We underestimate how much value we offer. The myth of confidence is that it should never feel awkward. Confidence is a result of having taken action, so the way to get to the result is taking action even before you have the confidence.”
Work From The Inside Out
Episode: Always Bet on Yourself: Learn to Ask for What You Want
“The more often people do mental rehearsal, the more easily they're they find themselves taking action It's a much smoother process that way.”
UnF*Ck Your Brain
Episode: Negotiation and Collaboration for Professional Women of Color (and Everyone Else)
“We have this mindset that’s like we’ve got to do that performance review. We’ve got to check the boxes really well. But then we miss out on the informal conversations that move the needle.”
The Burnout Club
Episode: Ditch Burnout - Get Bolder, Braver, and Better Paid with Jamie Lee
“First of all, working hard does not create burnout. Chasing a feeling or using a particular emotion as fuel to work really, really hard does lead to burnout. You know you’re in burnout when you’re physically ill.
Conversations with Seven Sisters
Episode: For Women Who Hate Office Politics but Want to Get Promoted and Paid
Jamie and Jen discuss how quitting a toxic job is often the right thing to do when HR and your boss don’t help. Jamie shares how her career was very non-linear, and how she has taken advantage of opportunities as they arrive.
THe Impostor Syndrome Files
Episode: Who Decides What Is Enough?
“What if I get to decide for myself what is enough? If you work with other people, think about how they are defining their enough. Or ask yourself, how is my work enough already?”
Negotiate Anything
Episode: How to Advocate For Yourself: Become Bolder, Braver, and Better Paid
“It is more selfish to hold back and not share what you want and need, because you're focusing on your internal emotional discomfort and not how your self-advocacy could be serving other people.”
Shameless Leadership
Episode: How to Amplify Self-Advocacy to Claim Your Power
“It's very common among highly-educated, ambitious women, that we find out some dude who's less qualified is making more, only because we didn't know how to speak up for our own professional value.”
Ways to Change the Workplace
Episode: How women leaders can cut through office politics!
“No one is born a negotiator. It's a skill that we all learn. There are tons of people out there, smart women who want to overcome the struggles they encounter in the workplace, so they can better speak up, communicate, advocate, and lead.
UnF*Ck Your Brain
Episode: Transitioning to Leadership + Navigating Office Politics
“Women are socialized to seek validation, and that gets mixed up with perfectionism. This can be really crippling because there is no perfection.”
Negotiations Ninja
Episode: Conquer Your Fear of Self-Advocacy
You have to be creative in your career. It’s less about proving yourself and more about conveying the value of what you can do. The people who can articulate the future value they offer—and how it benefits everyone—are the ones who get promoted.