For twenty years she sat in the rooms where careers are decided. Now she is telling you what she saw, and the 26 moves that change the verdict.
Talent reviews. Calibration. Succession planning. Your name lands on a slide, stays there a few seconds, and your future moves or it does not. The work is almost never the reason. This is the field guide to everything around it.
Name the role before the room names it for you. Get found by the searches that fill seats before they are posted. Land the first fifteen seconds. Arm your advocate with the nine-second sentence. Each chapter ends with one concrete move to run this week.
Two decades in corporate HR, watching the strongest leaders in the building get passed over for one missing thing: a story in the room, and a person to carry it. Every chapter carries a true account from the other side of the table.
Each chapter names the pattern you cannot yet see, shows the research behind it, and hands you the exact move that closes the gap. Your work was never the question. This book fixes everything around it.
The book carries the same VIPER method Maddy teaches senior leaders one session at a time. If you want the diagnostic version first, the free Read tells you exactly where you stand in about two minutes.
Run your free Readiness Score →The Room Where You're Decided arrives on Amazon Jul 24. Reserve your copy, or start closing the gap today with the free Read.