About Me:
I’m Laurie - career coach + former Slack/Adobe/Salesforce leader. I spent 25+ years watching brilliant people get overlooked for reasons no one explained to them. Now I explain it.
Creator of The Stand Out Advantage™ + founder of Next Level Leadership Group. Coffee lover. Mom. Married to my high school sweetheart. New Yorker. Still figuring out the next chapter - and writing about it honestly.
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I spent 25+ years inside companies like Slack, Adobe, and Salesforce - in the rooms where career decisions actually get made.
Now I share what I saw: how promotions really work, what decision-makers are actually looking for, and how to stop guessing and start moving strategically.
I also write about what it’s like to navigate this chapter of life — the one where your kids leave, your parents age, and you’re rebuilding your identity outside the roles that defined you for decades. Because career strategy and life strategy aren’t separate conversations. Not really.
Free subscribers get:
Weekly essays on the career patterns I’ve witnessed firsthand — what’s actually happening and why you keep hitting the same walls
Paid subscribers get everything above, plus:
Twice-monthly tactical playbooks: the exact frameworks + strategies I use with coaching clients
Access to every playbook as I publish them - no paywalls, no “this one’s extra”
Comment access to ask follow-up questions and get my take on your specific situation
Founding members get everything above, plus:
My gratitude for backing this from the start. You’re building this with me and I won’t forget it.
If you’re a high performer who’s done everything right and still feels like the system isn’t working the way you expected - this is for you.
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