How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Roadmap

The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence · Jul 8, 2026 · 10m · transcript

For Episode 100 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the career roadmap — a one-page visual that maps your path from your current role to your target role within a company. They anchor the episode in the story of a mid-level marketing coordinator at a consumer goods firm who wanted a director-level role but kept getting overlooked because she couldn't articulate her trajectory. She built a roadmap showing her current skills, the skills required for the director role, the projects she would take on to bridge the gap, and a timeline. She presented it to her boss and her…