How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Glossary

The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence · Jul 19, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode of The Promotion Memo with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh visibility strategy: building a career glossary. They tell the story of a marketing manager at a mid-sized tech firm who documented the acronyms, jargon, and unwritten rules of her organization into a shared glossary. The result? She became the go-to translator between engineering, sales, and executive leadership, accelerating her promotion to director. Lucas breaks down the three-step process: identify knowledge gaps, create a living document, and socialize it without ego. Luna shares a counterexample from her…