63: Why You Keep Getting Passed Over For Promotion

SisterSmart Leadership · Oct 1, 2026 · 17m

You are good at your job. Nobody is arguing about that.

So it stings when the promotion goes to someone else and nobody can really tell you why.

You ask for feedback and get told you are doing great. Then you get handed another big project, and another year goes by.

Your skill was never the question. What they are weighing is whether they can hand you something big and then stop thinking about it.

And that gets decided in small moments you never see, by people talking about you when you are not in the meeting.

Most executive presence advice is about how you come across while you are there…