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Lori Lalonde
Founder & Executive Coach at Her Executive Ascent Inc.

Women still face a structural gap in the kind of development they receive on the way up. Most leadership programs aimed at women focus on values-based skills like confidence, communication, and self-advocacy. Useful, but not the reason men advance faster. The real bottleneck is access to tactical, power-aware training. Women in middle management often aren’t taught how to operate at senior altitude: how to navigate organizational politics, influence resource allocation, manage enterprise risk, or build visibility with decision-makers. Add the lack of real sponsorship, and it becomes a pipeline problem masquerading as a ‘confidence’ problem. This is why I left corporate - to build the leadership program women in middle management desperately need right now which fills that gap.

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Lori Lalonde
Founder & Executive Coach at Her Executive Ascent Inc.

Women still face a structural gap in the kind of development they receive on the way up. Most leadership programs aimed at women focus on values-based skills like confidence, communication, and self-advocacy. Useful, but not the reason men advance faster. The real bottleneck is access to tactical, power-aware training. Women in middle management often aren’t taught how to operate at senior altitude: how to navigate organizational politics, influence resource allocation, manage enterprise risk, or build visibility with decision-makers. Add the lack of real sponsorship, and it becomes a pipeline problem masquerading as a ‘confidence’ problem. This is why I left corporate - to build the leadership program women in middle management desperately need right now which fills that gap.

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Lori Lalonde
Founder & Executive Coach at Her Executive Ascent Inc.

Women still face a structural gap in the kind of development they receive on the way up. Most leadership programs aimed at women focus on values-based skills like confidence, communication, and self-advocacy. Useful, but not the reason men advance faster. The real bottleneck is access to tactical, power-aware training. Women in middle management often aren’t taught how to operate at senior altitude: how to navigate organizational politics, influence resource allocation, manage enterprise risk, or build visibility with decision-makers. Add the lack of real sponsorship, and it becomes a pipeline problem masquerading as a ‘confidence’ problem. This is why I left corporate - to build the leadership program women in middle management desperately need right now which fills that gap.

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Lori Lalonde
Founder & Executive Coach at Her Executive Ascent Inc.

Women still face a structural gap in the kind of development they receive on the way up. Most leadership programs aimed at women focus on values-based skills like confidence, communication, and self-advocacy. Useful, but not the reason men advance faster. The real bottleneck is access to tactical, power-aware training. Women in middle management often aren’t taught how to operate at senior altitude: how to navigate organizational politics, influence resource allocation, manage enterprise risk, or build visibility with decision-makers. Add the lack of real sponsorship, and it becomes a pipeline problem masquerading as a ‘confidence’ problem. This is why I left corporate - to build the leadership program women in middle management desperately need right now which fills that gap.

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Lori Lalonde
Founder & Executive Coach at Her Executive Ascent Inc.

Women still face a structural gap in the kind of development they receive on the way up. Most leadership programs aimed at women focus on values-based skills like confidence, communication, and self-advocacy. Useful, but not the reason men advance faster. The real bottleneck is access to tactical, power-aware training. Women in middle management often aren’t taught how to operate at senior altitude: how to navigate organizational politics, influence resource allocation, manage enterprise risk, or build visibility with decision-makers. Add the lack of real sponsorship, and it becomes a pipeline problem masquerading as a ‘confidence’ problem. This is why I left corporate - to build the leadership program women in middle management desperately need right now which fills that gap.

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