Leadership Workshop: ‘Elevate Your Career’

Citigroup, Paris.

OVERVIEW

Partnered with the Citi Women’s Leadership Initiative in Paris to design and deliver a career workshop for 35 Vice Presidents at Citi to help them strategically explore career pathways and elevate their professional profiles.

Objective

  • Equip participants with practical tools to align personal aspirations with organizational impact to advance in their careers and stretch their influence.

Results & Key Takeaways

  • VPs uncovered personal traps holding back their growth, shifting from frustration to focus.

  • Participants left with a tailored career case, linking their expertise and aspirations to Citi’s—like competitiveness among market players and product innovation.

  • The future-back strategy sparked plans to overcome barriers to stretch their influence among key players.

Roadmap

I. Initial Consultation and Tailoring

Partnered with the Citi Women’s Leadership initiative in Paris to:

  • Explore VPs’ latent aspirations for career advancement and promotion in their roles.

  • Introduce my three-stage approach for career progression and adapt it into a 90-minute workshop, blending framework and exercises.

    • Highlighted two career pitfalls of high-achievers—drifting without an intentional plan for advancement and chasing metrics and status over meaning and organizational impact.

    • Introduced the three stages to career progression: Clarify, Strategize, and Promote.

    • Outlined two strategies to master these stages with bespoke resources:

      Take a Stand: Defined their career journey at the intersection of organizational and personal aspirations, promoting their value within Citi’s needs.

      Future-Back Strategy: Envisioned success beyond barriers, working backward to foster resourcefulness.

II. Delivery and materials

A 90-minute interactive keynote, blending content, self-reflection, and Q&A:

Strategic career reflection

“Susana’s session was a wake-up call—I had been drifting in my career without an intentional plan. Her practical roadmap and tools helped me rethink my career strategy, promote my profile, and strengthen my positioning among business stakeholders.”

— Sophie, VP Trading at Citi, Paris.

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