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The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
Lucas and Luna examine the mechanics of career advancement beyond performance metrics. Each episode dissects a single promotion case — from a manufacturing manager at Siemens who secured a VP role without a formal MBA to a product lead at Stripe who built executive presence through internal board presentations. Lucas maps the specific visibility tactics these professionals used: how they identified sponsors, which meetings they requested, and how they framed their contributions in budget…
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The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive PresenceThe Promotion Math That Most People Skip
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dig into the surprisingly specific math behind promotion decisions—why a single quantified impact story…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Sponsorship Map Landed a Senior Director Role
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dig into the mechanics of sponsorship — not mentorship — and how one product leader used a structured…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Metrics Audit Landed a Senior Director Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a senior product manager who used a career metrics audit to finally secure a Senior…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
The Career Metrics That Actually Predict Promotion
In Episode 170 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna tackle a question most career advice sidesteps: which metrics actually catch a promotion committee's…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Checklist Landed a Senior Manager Promotion
Episode 169 of The Promotion Memo digs into the overlooked power of the humble checklist in career advancement. Lucas and Luna dissect the story of a senior…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
The Career Visibility Audit That Fixed Her Promotion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the story of a product operations manager who kept getting passed over for a senior role. Her performance reviews were…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Gap Map Landed a Senior Manager Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna unpack a promotion case that started with a career gap map. They explore how a senior analyst at a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Recognition Gap Delayed a Senior Manager Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna examine why one financial analyst missed a senior manager promotion despite strong performance reviews…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Impact Log Landed a Senior Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how a senior analyst at a mid-sized logistics firm used a career impact log to finally get the…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
The Reverse Reference Check That Landed a Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive career move: conducting a reverse reference check on your own promotion case…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
Why Your Job Description Is a Career Signal
Lucas and Luna explore a fresh career angle: treating your job description as a live career signal rather than a static document. They unpack a specific case…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Visibility Map Landed a Senior Manager Promotion
In Episode 162 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna break down the story of Priya, a senior analyst at a mid-sized logistics firm who spent two years feeling…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Narrative Led to a Senior Director Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the power of a career narrative in landing a promotion, using the story of a product manager at a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Preparation Audit Landed a Promotion
In episode 160 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dig into a specific case: a senior analyst at a regional bank who used a career preparation audit to land…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Pivot Log Landed a Senior Manager Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna unpack the career pivot log—a structured record of skills, projects, and decisions made during a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Sourcing Log Landed a Promotion
In Episode 158 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how a marketing manager named Priya used a career sourcing log—a living document of every person…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
The Promotion Case That Started With a Career Pause
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how a deliberate career pause—a sabbatical that was initially seen as a risk—became the catalyst…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Pause Led to a Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive career strategy: taking a deliberate pause to recalibrate before a promotion…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Visibility Audit Landed a Director Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a senior manager who landed a director role by conducting a career visibility audit…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Decision Log Landed a Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-level manager used a career decision log to document every pivot, risk, and choice over…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Exposure Log Landed a Promotion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a powerful but often overlooked promotion tool: the career exposure log. They explain how tracking visibility…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
Why Your Promotion Needs a Career Decision Log
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore a surprisingly effective promotion tool: the career decision log. Anchored in the story of a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Shadowing Log Landed a Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore a promotion strategy that often flies under the radar: career shadowing. They unpack the story of…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Contract Landed a Director Promotion
In this milestone 150th episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna break down a promotion strategy most people overlook: writing a career contract. They…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How to Write a Career Elevator Pitch That Lands the Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna break down the art of the career elevator pitch—the 30-second story that gets you noticed for promotion…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Sponsorship Map Landed a Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how one employee used a career sponsorship map to secure a director-level promotion. They break…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Elevator Pitch Landed a Director Promotion
In Episode 147 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dive into the art of the career elevator pitch—a concise, compelling summary of your value that can open…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Signals Audit Landed a Director Promotion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a senior manager who earned a Director title by running a career signals audit. Instead of adding another…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Establishing a Career Feedback Loop
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Sarah, a marketing manager at a mid-size tech firm who was stuck at her level for three years despite…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Defining Career OKRs
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-level project manager at a SaaS company used the OKR framework to secure a director…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Leadership Narrative Landed a VP Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how product director Sarah Chen used a leadership narrative document to secure a VP role at a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Opportunity Map
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore how Sofia, a senior analyst at a mid-sized tech firm, used a career opportunity map to land a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Stakeholder Map Landed a Promotion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one product manager used a career stakeholder map to secure a promotion. By identifying the six key people who…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Redesigning Their Job
When a marketing manager at a 400-person B2B SaaS company noticed a 22% quarterly churn rate, she didn't wait for a mandate. She spent six weeks…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Portfolio Landed a Promotion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down how a senior analyst named Maria built a career portfolio—a curated collection of her key projects, metrics, and…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Finding a Career Sponsor
Priya, a senior product manager at a mid-sized tech firm, spent three years being passed over for promotion despite strong performance. She had mentors, but no…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How to Get a Promotion by Doing a Career Gap Analysis
Sarah, a product marketing manager at a B2B software company, was passed over for promotion twice. Instead of guessing, she mapped her target role's…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Branding Statement Landed a Promotion
Lucas and Luna explore how a career branding statement can be the missing piece in your promotion strategy. They share the story of Priya, a senior financial…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Career Risk Register Landed a VP Promotion
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a promotion strategy that hasn't been covered before: the career risk register. They follow senior analyst Sarah…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How to Write a Career Executive Summary for Promotion
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the career one-page executive summary—a concise document that distills your impact for senior…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Writing a Career User Story
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the power of framing your career contributions as user stories, inspired by the product development world. They unpack…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Dashboard
In this episode of The Promotion Memo with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a mid-level data analyst at a regional bank who got promoted by…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Creating a Career Playbook
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the power of a career playbook—a strategic document that outlines your career vision, key moves, and measurable…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Case Study
Lucas and Luna explore the power of the career case study: a structured narrative that shows how you solved a specific problem and delivered measurable…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Personal Board of Directors
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore a tactical approach to career advancement that doesn't rely on a single mentor: building a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Scorecard
Lucas and Luna break down the career scorecard—a structured, data-driven framework that one product manager used to track 12 key performance metrics over 18…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Trust Account
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a 'career trust account' — the invisible currency of credibility and reliability that…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How a Product Manager Got Promoted by Creating a Career User Manual
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a promotion strategy that flips the script on self-promotion: creating a career user manual. They break down how a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Blog
In episode 125 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Sarah Chen, a senior marketing manager at a consumer goods firm who got promoted to…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Glossary
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…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Press Kit
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a mid-level product manager at a mid-size SaaS company who created a 'career…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Trajectory Map
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of Ajay, a senior analyst at a mid-sized logistics firm who felt stuck despite strong performance reviews. He…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Narrative Arc
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the power of narrative arcs as a career strategy. They dissect the case of Priya, a product…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Heat Map
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the career heat map — a visual tool that helps employees identify where they have high…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Creating a Career Support System
In episode 119 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a mid-level marketing manager who built a career support system—a small group of…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Impact Log
In episode 118 of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Maria, a mid-level product manager at a midsize B2B SaaS company who landed a…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Creating a Career Brag Book
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a 'career brag book' — a curated collection of wins, testimonials, and…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Influence Map
In this episode of The Promotion Memo, Lucas and Luna explore a specific tactic for getting promoted: building a career influence map. They walk through the…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Building a Career Playbook
In this episode of The Promotion Memo with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Maria Chen, a marketing manager at a mid-sized fintech firm who…
- The Promotion Memo with Fexingo: Getting Visibility, Sponsors, and Executive Presence
How One Employee Got Promoted by Writing a Career Memo
In this episode of The Promotion Memo with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of a mid-level product manager at a Fortune 500 retailer who got…