How One Employee Got Promoted by Solving a Cross-Functional Bottleneck

The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence · May 31, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the story of a marketing coordinator named Priya who turned a chronic cross-functional bottleneck into a promotion-worthy initiative. By mapping the handoff between creative and product teams, she identified that 40 percent of project delays came from a single approval step. She automated a simple checklist in Slack, cut approval time from three days to four hours, and presented the impact to her VP, resulting in a new role as operations associate. The hosts discuss how to spot bottlenecks others tolerate, how to quantify the fix, and why this…