How to Actually Win

The system behind promotion, power and positioning

Most career advice tells you to work harder, speak up more, find a mentor. None of that is wrong. None of it is the reason promotions happen.

Promotions happen because someone with budget authority has already formed a view of you. Because your name came up in the right conversation, at the right moment, with the right advocate behind it. Because the formal process, the review, the meeting, the conversation, confirmed a decision that was already made.

This programme teaches you how that system actually works, and how to build the structure that changes your outcome inside it.

I spent fifteen years inside UBS and Credit Suisse in senior HR and Reward leadership. I ran calibration cycles. I managed 24,000 bonus decisions working directly with the UBS CTO and presenting to the CEO for sign-off. I led Technology HR through the CS/UBS merger integration across 13,000 people.

I also navigated the system from the inside, promoted twice within banking, from AVP to VP, then VP to Executive Director. I know what the decision-makers are weighing, because I was one of them. The research confirms what I observed. This framework is built from the observation.

Who this is for:

For Senior Manager and Director level women inside large organisations in financial services, technology, and professional services. Remote. Six Wednesday sessions, 12:00–13:30 CET.

Six weeks. Six sessions. One framework.

Read the real power map — not the org chart. Who controls the outcome before the formal process opens.

Know how you are actually seen — by the people making the decision, not the people giving you feedback.

Map what deteriorates if nothing changes — sponsorship, perception, market window, identity.

Build real sponsorship — not support, not mentoring. The advocacy that spends political capital on your behalf.

Execute a sequenced plan — internal and external moves, timed correctly, with the reputation considerations built in.

Negotiate before the conversation opens — because by the time it does, most of what was negotiable has already been decided.

You leave with a clear understanding of how the system actually works, a plan built around your specific situation, and the confidence to implement it.

Join the Waiting List

Register your interest. Places are limited. I'll be in touch personally once the list is open.

Founding cohort: CHF 2,000 (CHF 2,500 from Cohort 2)

Six weeks. A power map, a readiness audit, a sponsor landscape, and a sequenced plan of moves. Everything you need to stop waiting and start building.

What's included