Job Search, Promotion, and Career Clarity: The Mid-Career GPS Podcast 310: Level Up Your Leadership: Michelle Myers’ Proven Strategies for Women to Stay Visible and Influential
In 2025’s rapidly shifting workplace, women leaders face a unique set of challenges: staff cutbacks, fewer advancement opportunities, and the persistent shadow of imposter syndrome. For mid-career professionals, the pressure to remain visible, relevant, and confident has never been higher.
In this episode of The Mid-Career GPS Podcast, John Neral sits down with Michelle Myers, a veteran leader at Women’s Leadership Today with over 20 years of experience developing women leaders, to explore how authenticity, adaptability, and strategic personal branding can fuel career growth at any stage.
Michelle demonstrates how continuous learning and mutual adaptation between leader and organization can lead to long-term career success.
Whether you’re navigating leadership visibility in a hybrid workplace, refining your professional brand, or battling the quiet creep of invisibility in your career, Michelle offers practical, actionable strategies to help you shine.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- The new leadership reality for women in 2025 and how to adapt to fewer opportunities and shifting workplace dynamics
- Why personal branding matters and how to make it about authenticity and clarity, not ego
- How to conquer imposter syndrome so you can confidently articulate your value
- Visibility tactics that work from optimizing your LinkedIn headline to volunteering for high-profile projects
- Conducting a skills gap analysis to identify the competencies you need for your next role
- The power of feedback and vulnerability in building trust and uncovering blind spots
- How male allies can support women leaders by amplifying their visibility and listening with authenticity
- The ABCV Framework: Authenticity, Brand, Clarity, and Value, the roadmap for sustaining leadership success
Resources & Links:
- Click here to learn more about Michelle’s work at Women's Leadership Today
- Connect with Michelle Myers, MBA, on LinkedIn
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