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Your career changes when you learn how to influence the people who influence your career.

And when it does, everything accelerates. You stop hoping the right people notice you work and start knowing they will. Opportunities find you. Advocates speak up for you. You go from working hard to being chosen. 

The Promoted Academy is a 10-week live experience that teaches ambitious corporate professionals the people skills that become increasingly critical the higher you go: how to read people, adapt your communication, build trust and become more influential with the people who shape what happens next in your career.

READ THE ROOM.

BUILD INFLUENCE.

CHANGE THE OUTCOME.

You've already proven you can do the work.

The next level requires something different.

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Your career changes when you learn how to influence the people who influence your career.

  

The Promoted Academy is a 10-week live experience that teaches ambitious corporate professionals the people skills that become increasingly critical the higher you go: how to read people, adapt your communication, build trust and become more influential with the people who shape what happens next in your career.

READ THE ROOM.

BUILD INFLUENCE.

CHANGE THE OUTCOME.

You've already proven you can do the work.

The next level requires something different.

JOIN THE PROMOTED ACADEMY

influence
noun · /ˈÉȘn·flu·əns/

1. the capacity to change what happens in a room you're not in, regardless of title.

verb

2. to read a person accurately, adapt how you communicate to reach them, and build enough trust and respect that they listen, back your ideas, and act on your behalf.

The higher you go, the more your career becomes a people game.

 

Early in your career, being smart, dependable and great at execution can take you pretty far.

But eventually, everyone around you is capable.

And the things that begin separating the people who keep advancing from the people who stall are different:

Can you read a room?

Can you understand what matters to someone who thinks nothing like you?

Can you make your ideas land?

Can you disagree without damaging trust?

Can you get buy-in when you don't have authority?

Can you change someone's perception of you?

Can you navigate powerful personalities without shrinking—or bulldozing?

Can you build relationships with people who advocate for you when you're not there?

Those aren't “soft skills.” They're career skills.

And most companies never actually teach you how to develop them.

The Promoted Academy does.

 

I spent years in the rooms where careers were decided.

I sat with CEOs and executive teams discussing who was ready, who wasn't, who had potential and who we were willing to bet on.

And after hundreds of those conversations, I saw the same thing over and over:

Being great at your job was the price of admission. It wasn't what ultimately separated people.

 

The leaders who kept gaining responsibility weren't always the smartest people in the room.

They knew how to work with people.

They could read what was happening around them.

They understood different personalities.

They knew when to push and when to listen.

They could make their ideas land.

They built trust.

They navigated conflict.

They understood power and perception.

And critically, they built relationships with people who advocated for them when they weren't in the room.

In other words: they had influence.

And here's the part most leadership programs miss:

Influence is learnable.

That's why I created The Promoted Academy.

 

People skills aren't soft skills. They're how work gets done.

Your ability to succeed increasingly depends on your ability to create results through and with other people.

Your boss.

Your peers.

Your team.

Your boss's boss.

The skeptical CFO.

The territorial colleague.

The executive who barely knows you.

The stakeholder who can greenlight—or quietly kill—your idea.

You don't need to manipulate any of them.

You need to understand them.

Because when you understand what matters to someone, how they process information, what creates trust for them and what creates resistance, you can make better choices about how you show up.

That's influence.

And influence changes what becomes possible in your career.

You don't need another leadership program. You need to get better at the moments that actually shape your career.

Maybe...

✓ You know exactly what you want to say—but can't seem to make it land with your boss.

✓ You're great at execution, but senior leaders still don't see you as strategic.

✓ You struggle to push back, disagree or say what you really think when the stakes are high.

✓ You find yourself overexplaining to certain personalities and shrinking around others.

✓ You watch people with less experience command more attention and wonder what they understand that you don't.

✓ You're doing great work, but too few influential people actually know how good you are.

✓ You have a difficult stakeholder whose perception of you is affecting your ability to get things done.

✓ You've been told to improve your “executive presence,” “communication” or “visibility”—with very little explanation of what that actually means.

These may look like different problems. They're not.

They're all people problems.

And the higher you go, the more expensive it becomes to be brilliant at your job but ineffective at navigating the humans around you.

 

I’ve sat in hundreds of meetings with C-Suite executives discussing individual leaders - what made them effective, what’s holding them back, and whether or not we’re going to promote them. In The Promoted Academy, I bring you behind the curtain and share exactly what these conversations are about...and how you can begin standing out from your peers. 

I’ve worked at some of the world’s most prestigious companies, and sadly not one of them taught the unspoken rules of the game. The lucky leaders who intuitively “got it” rose to the top while countless talented professionals were overlooked and left behind.
 

But I’m going to let you in on THE SECRET...

 

These skills can be learned, and I can teach them to you. 

Stop wondering what you should be doing to get noticed, and start playing the game by the unwritten rules.

Because working harder and longer won't get you promoted.

You’re SICK and TIRED of hearing elusive feedback from your boss..


Feedback like:

“you should be more strategic”, or

“work on your executive presence”, or

“strengthen your communication and/or relationship building skills”. 

 What are you supposed to do with this kind of feedback?

The answer is realistically...Nothing! This vague feedback is usually because your manager doesn’t even know themselves how to articulate what they’re not seeing. They’re just not seeing it. It’s not fair, but it’s part of the game. 

But not for you. Not anymore.

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After sitting in and leading hundreds of conversations about promotions, I saw the same thing over and over:

Being great at your job was the price of admission. It wasn't what ultimately separated people.

The leaders who kept gaining responsibility knew how to work with people.

They could read what was happening around them.

They understood different personalities.

They knew when to push and when to listen.

They made their ideas land.

They built trust.

They navigated conflict.

They understood power and perception.

And they built relationships with people who advocated for them when they weren't in the room.

In other words, they had influence.

 

And influence is learnable.

Introducing 

 

READ THE ROOM. BUILD INFLUENCE. CHANGE THE OUTCOME.

A 10-week applied influence experience for ambitious professionals who want to become dramatically more effective at navigating people, power and perception at work.

Over 10 weeks, you'll learn how to understand yourself, read the people around you, adapt how you communicate and intentionally build greater influence with the people who matter to your success.

Not by becoming someone you're not.

By developing a much wider range of ways you can show up.

 

 

 

10 weeks from now, you'll walk into work differently.

â–ș You'll understand how other people experience you—and recognize when your natural behavior is helping or hurting your influence.

â–ș You'll become better at reading different personalities and understanding what they need from you.

â–ș You'll know how to adapt your communication without feeling fake.

â–ș You'll make recommendations more persuasively, disagree more effectively and navigate difficult personalities without losing your authority.

â–ș You'll understand how to build relationships with people who can advocate for you when you're not in the room.

â–ș You'll know how to begin changing a perception of you that's no longer accurate.

â–ș And you'll leave with a 90-day strategy for turning greater influence into the career outcome you want next.

I’ve spent the past 20 years advising CEOs on their talent strategy, and I’ve climbed the corporate ladder myself - from Admin Assistant to SVP and Head of HR.

I’ve made it my mission to teach other ambitious corporate leaders the real truth behind what it takes to get promoted.

 

10 weeks from now, you'll walk into work differently.

You'll understand how other people experience you, and know when your default behaviors are helping or hurting your influence.

You'll become much better at quickly reading different personalities and understanding what they need from you.

You'll know how to adapt your communication without feeling like you're performing.

You'll communicate differently with a skeptical executive than you do with a relationship-driven colleague—because you'll understand why you should.

You'll know how to make recommendations more persuasively, disagree more effectively and navigate difficult personalities without losing your authority.

You'll understand how to build relationships with people who can advocate for you when you're not in the room.

You'll know how to change a perception of you that's no longer accurate.

And you'll leave with a 90-day strategy for turning your increased influence into the career outcome you want next.


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3 Part Framework:

AWARENESS 

AUTHORITY 

ACCELERATION 

Inside Module 1 you'll discover:


AWARENESS 

Understand yourself. Read the room.

You'll uncover how your natural behavioral and communication style affects the way others experience you—and where your greatest strengths may actually be limiting your influence.

You'll learn to read observable behavioral cues, recognize what different personalities need and understand what's happening beneath the surface of important workplace interactions.

You'll stop asking:
“Why don't they get me?”

And start asking:
“What does this person need from me for this to land?”

Inside module 2 you’ll discover:
 

AUTHORITY 

Change how powerful people experience you. 

Build your range. Build your influence.

Knowing your style isn't enough.

You'll learn how to adapt your behavior and communication based on the person, situation and outcome—without becoming fake or abandoning who you are.

You'll practice communicating with authority, getting buy-in, managing up, disagreeing effectively, navigating difficult personalities, leading through others and staying composed when the stakes rise.

You don't need a different personality. You need greater range.

Inside Module 3 you'll discover:

ACCELERATION   

Put your influence to work.

Influence isn't the destination.

It's what allows you to create movement.

You'll learn how to strategically build visibility, strengthen important relationships, create advocates and sponsors, navigate organizational power and change outdated perceptions of you.

Then you'll turn it into a 90-day strategy designed around the outcome you want next:

Promotion. More authority. Bigger opportunities. Better compensation. Greater visibility. More autonomy. A seat at the table.

Read the Room. Build Influence. Change the Outcome.

 

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Your career is too important to leave in one person's hands.

Your boss can leave.

Leadership can change.

Organizations reorganize.

And one skeptical decision-maker can have an outsized influence over what happens next.

That's why part of TPA is learning how to build career equity across relationships: so more of the right people know your value, trust your judgment and are willing to advocate for you when you're not in the room.

The goal isn't to make sure you never encounter a blocker. It's to make sure no single blocker gets to determine your future.

Taken DiSC before?

Good.

We're going much further.

 

Maybe you already know you're a D, i, S or C.

Interesting.

But knowing your style isn't what changes your career.

Knowing when your natural style is helping you—and when it's costing you influence—is.

Inside TPA, Everything DiSCÂź becomes a diagnostic, not the destination.

You'll learn:

Where does my natural style give me an Influence Advantage?

Where am I paying an Influence Tax?

Why are certain personalities so much harder for me to influence?

How does my boss likely experience me?

When should I dial my natural style up—or down?

How do I recognize behavioral cues when I don't know someone's DiSC style?

How do I adapt without feeling fake?

Then your killer line from our earlier work:

You know your style. Now build your range.

 

(Have no clue what I'm talking about? Don't sweat it. You're in for a real treat!)

 

 

Inside The Promoted Academy, we use Everything DiSCÂź as a diagnostic, not the destination.

Your Influence Advantage — where your natural style makes you more effective.

Your Influence Tax — where that same natural style can begin costing you influence.

The question isn't simply “Who am I?”

It's:

“Given who I am, who they are and what I need to accomplish, how should I show up?”

This isn't just another development program.

These are the skills proven to finally transform careers. 

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If after 6-months of the program ending you don't believe you got your money's worth, I'll refund you 100% of your investment. I am so convinced that this works, I'm willing to assume all of the risk. Show me you did the work, and if you haven't transformed you'll get every penny of your investment back. 

I understand that if you’re like most ambitious corporate leaders, you’ve been disappointed in leadership development programs offered by your company in the past. I’ve been there. 

That’s why I created The Promoted Academy. This experience is unlike anything you’ve experienced before because we start with you, not with theory. We’re about transformation, not about check-the-box attendance. I am confident that this program works, if you work it. I guarantee that I’ll deliver practical direction and action ideas, but I can’t guarantee what you’ll do with them. Because I don’t want to attract leaders who aren’t committed to their success and willing to do the work, I don’t offer a money back guarantee. Instead, if at any point during the program you feel you aren’t getting value, I will personally work with you to ensure you’re getting the value you expected.

This community is meant for ambitious, action-oriented leaders who are ready to do something different to propel their careers. If that’s you, let’s get to work. 

But wait!

There's more:

BONUS #1:

4 Mastermind group coaching calls hosted by Courtney. You’ll have an opportunity to submit a question or challenge to work through with Courtney live on a call. This is one of the most valuable ways to learn as a group of peers.

BONUS #2:

Access to a closed Facebook group where you can connect with other ambitious corporate leaders. This site is actively moderated by Courtney and is a valuable opportunity to deepen your network and get advice from peers on real-time challenges.

BONUS #3:

Scripts and talk-tracks for the most challenging conversations you need to start having today.

BONUS #4:

  • Complementary access to Courtney's mini-courses, Own Your Path to Promotion where you'll learn how just one conversation can change the course of your career. (This is the exact step-by-step process I took to get a $25k pay raise!) and The Executive Voice, where you learn exactly how to start speaking like an executive. 

 

BONUS #5:

  • 2, 1:1 sessions with Courtney to ensure the successful integration of the new skills and awareness you'll be learning (Note: this is only available to Founding Members!).

So let's Recap:

When you join The Promoted Academy, you get invited to an exclusive group of ambitious corporate leaders just like you to embark on a transformative journey that will not only change your experience at work, but will have positive effects across all dimensions of your life. Get ready to be transformed from burned-out and frustrated to calm and confident - playing at a new level. 

So let's Recap:

When you join The Promoted Academy, you get invited to an exclusive group of ambitious corporate leaders just like you to embark on a transformative journey that will not only change your experience at work, but will have positive effects across all dimensions of your life. Get ready to be transformed from burned-out and frustrated to calm and confident - playing at a new level. 

Here's Everything Inside The Promoted Academy

Now it’s time for you to make one of two moves...

 

The first move is to do nothing.

And as you already know, if you choose nothing...then nothing changes.

But if you already know that you want to grow your career...

 

and be seen and recognized as the leader you know you are, then your move is obvious: join us inside The Promoted Academy and start your transformation to becoming the confident, successful leader you know you’re meant to be.

 

Simply click the button below and my team and I will be waiting for you on the inside!

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Meet your expert guide

COURTNEY O'CONNELL

For over 20 years, I climbed the corporate ladder starting as an administrative assistant and working my way up to SVP and Head of HR at a Fortune 500 company. I sat in boardrooms with CEOs, advising them on who should get promoted and who shouldn’t. And time after time, I saw talented, hardworking leaders passed over...not because they lacked skill, but because they didn’t know how to play the game at the executive level.

 

That’s why I created The Promoted Academy - to pull back the curtain on how promotions really happen. I teach ambitious corporate leaders the unspoken rules of the C-suite, the strategies executives use to command respect, and the leadership presence that makes decision-makers take notice.

Here’s the truth: Hard work alone won’t get you promoted. But once you understand how the game is played, everything changes. You’ll finally step into the leadership role you’ve been working toward. Not just with more authority at work, but with more confidence, freedom, and balance in your life.

If you’re ready to stop waiting for someone to recognize your potential and start getting the recognition, respect, and rewards you deserve, let’s make it happen. Your next level starts now.

Here are the answers to the most frequent questions we get from leaders like you.

 

If for some reason your question isn’t addressed below, don’t hesitate to send an email to support@thepromoted.com and a member of our team will get back to you.