Your company was never teaching you the skills that actually get you promoted. And the ones that used to try? They've quietly stopped.

McKinsey's latest: only half of companies still prioritize women's advancement. One in six have already cut the programs that housed this training entirely. One HR leader said it out loud: "We don't have a women's leadership program anymore."

This episode names the five power skills that drive the move from IC into leader — strategic self-advocacy, the difficult conversation, delegation as leadership, influence without authority, and Emotional Intelligence as strategy — and diagnoses exactly why the system failed to invest in any of them. Plus: what almost nobody's connecting about where the org chart is heading, and why the role shapes women have been building all along are the ones the future rewards.

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