In 2 hours, you’ll build the first draft of your Catbird Seat View: a practical read of your organization’s business pressures, leadership priorities, stakeholder dynamics, and advancement signals — so you can stop relying on effort alone and start moving with sharper strategic awareness.

This is where technical excellence becomes strategically legible

Inside complex organizations, leaders are constantly interpreting:

• What matters now
• What carries risk
• What deserves attention
• What deserves funding
• Who understands the bigger picture
  Who can be trusted closer to the decision
• Who is ready to operate beyond execution

Your Catbird Seat View helps you read that environment more clearly.

Not so you can become political in a performative way.

So your work and your words can become more dialed in.

More relevant.

More trusted.

More fluent in the context your leaders are already using to make decisions.

Because once you understand what the business is organizing around, you can connect your work to the outcomes leaders already care about.

That's how your expertise starts landing differently.

What We’ll Build Together

This is a working session, not a passive webinar.

You will use your own company, role, observations, and organizational context to begin building your first-draft Catbird Seat View.

Together, we’ll map:

• What the business is organizing around right now
• Where pressure, urgency, and risk appear to be sitting
• How leadership priorities are shaping opportunity and exposure
• Where decisions begin forming before they become visible
• What your organization says it values versus what behavior actually gets rewarded
• Which stakeholders most influence your career trajectory
• What those stakeholders may be listening for
• How your work can be positioned so it lands as business-relevant, not merely technically strong
• What to observe, question, and validate moving forward

The goal is not to create a perfect report, it's to give you a new operating lens.

It’s like putting subtitles on your organizational life: the same meetings, the same stakeholders, the same leadership dynamics — but now you can read the pressures, priorities, and interpretations moving underneath the conversation.

Why This Is Different

Most career advice focuses on the individual:

- Your confidence
- Your communication
- Your visibility
- Your performance
- Your personal brand

Those things absolutely matter, but they're incomplete without the system around you.

At senior levels, excellent work has to be interpreted correctly, and interpretation happens inside a business context.

A recommendation that sounds brilliant to another expert may sound too detailed, too risky, too slow, too narrow, or too disconnected to a leader carrying a different set of pressures.

That does not mean your work is wrong -- tt means the translation layer matters.

In the live session, one participant described being moved into a B2B commercial environment where she was speaking technically while senior leaders were speaking business. The work was high quality, but it was not resonating because the leaders were filtering for speed, feasibility, commercial pressure, and business movement. That is exactly the kind of moment the Catbird Seat View is designed to help you decode.

What Changes

This working session helps you move from:

“I know the right answer.”

to:

“I understand what this leader is solving for, what pressure they’re under, what risk they’re managing, and how to connect my expertise to the outcome they care about.”

From:

“I need to be more visible.”

to:

“I need to understand where leverage lives, whose interpretation matters, and how trust is actually forming.”

From:

“I need to explain it better.”

to:

“I need to translate it into the business frame they are already using.”

From:

“I hope my work speaks for itself.”

to:

“I can help the right people understand why this work matters now.” 

What You’ll Leave With

By the end of this working session, you will have:

• A first-draft Catbird Seat View of your organization
• A clearer read on the business pressures shaping leadership attention
• A stronger understanding of how your work may be getting interpreted
• A practical map of what to observe, question, and validate next
• A sharper lens on your key stakeholders and what they may be listening for
• A better sense of where your effort is most likely to translate into strategic impact
• A way to use AI thoughtfully without outsourcing your own judgment
• A new language for connecting technical contribution to business relevance

Most importantly:

You will begin seeing your organization differently.

And once you see it, you can work inside it much more effectively.

Who This is For

This working session is for women in STEM and Finance who:

• Are already delivering at a high level
• Are trusted with meaningful work
• Have strong technical, analytical, or functional expertise
• Are moving into more complex stakeholder environments
• Want their work to land with more strategic relevance
• Sense that larger dynamics are shaping opportunity around them
• Want to understand how advancement decisions actually begin forming
• Are ready to move from expert contribution to trusted business alignment

This is especially useful if you are:

• Preparing for promotion
• Recently promoted
• Working with more senior stakeholders
• Operating in a matrixed or complex organization
• Moving from technical work into commercial, strategic, risk, product, finance, or enterprise-facing conversations
• Noticing that “doing excellent work” is no longer the whole game

Why I Created This

I created the Catbird Seat View because I kept seeing the same pattern.

Smart, high-achieving women were doing excellent work.

But the work was not always being interpreted at the level they intended.

Not because they lacked capability.

Because they were often operating from the expert seat while the organization was evaluating trust, risk, business judgment, stakeholder alignment, and future leadership capacity.

My work is grounded in 20+ years inside Fortune 100 Talent, Leadership Development, DEI, and organizational environments, including work with senior leaders on talent evaluation, succession dynamics, advancement systems, and leadership readiness.

I have seen how careers move inside organizations -- not just through performance, but through interpretation, advocacy, and business relevance.

Through the ability to understand what leaders are actually solving for and communicate work in that frame.

The Catbird Seat View gives you a practical way to do that.