Career Advancement Roadmap

The room where they decide about you is not the room where they watch you work. At senior levels, advancement depends on whether your work shows you're ready for the next level, whether the right people know about it, and whether someone speaks up for you when the decision is made.

The Career Advancement Roadmap looks at all three. We work out where your advancement is getting stuck and put our recommendations in writing: where to focus, who needs to know your work, and what to do first. Then we work through the plan with you.

We think about careers the way a product team thinks about going to market: what you offer, who needs to know, and how they hear about it. Ian Christie, our founder, ran product management at Monster.com and more than 200 executive searches before building The Bold Career Project.

How it works

• Before we start: a short intake, your résumé and your LinkedIn URL
• Session 1, Diagnosis (45 minutes): what your next level requires, how you're seen now, and which bottleneck is holding you back
• Your written plan: a concise plan with our recommendations for your strategy and what you need to act on to make progress
• One review: written or video feedback on the document that matters most right now, such as your LinkedIn profile, bio, stakeholder map or performance summary, returned within 2 business days
• Session 2, Working the plan (45 minutes): your priorities, your stakeholders and your next conversations
• Session 3, Next steps (45 minutes): what's moved, what's in the way and what comes next

What we can cover

• Your next level: what it requires, and whether your work is evidence for it
• How you're seen: by your leaders, your peers and your market
• Your visibility: where your work is seen, and where it should be
• Your relationships: sponsors, champions and who could recommend you
• Your network: its strengths and gaps
• Your profile: LinkedIn and how you show up when someone looks you up

Also included: the resources you need for this work, including videos, workbooks and tools · 60 days of access to our career platform

A good fit if you're a senior manager, director or executive doing strong work and wanting more scope or a bigger role, and you want a clear plan you can carry out yourself. If a specific promotion decision is coming up, the Promotion Sprint is built for that.

Here is what we control and what we don't. We can't decide who gets promoted or what the market offers. We can give you a clear strategy and honest advice on what to do next.

Details: Your sessions and review are to be used within 30 days of your first session. One extension of up to two weeks is available on request. All sessions one to one, by video. Confidential.

Credit: Already had a Career Advancement Session with us? You pay the difference. Want to go further? You can move into a Sprint within 14 days of your Roadmap ending and pay the difference, and half your fee counts toward the Next-Level Role Program within 30 days.