Stakeholder Management: Getting Noticed and Getting Buy-In Without Begging
Olga Labutina
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Olga Labutina is an Executive & Leadership Coach who works with senior leaders from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Microsoft, LVMH and many more. She specialises in executive presence, strategic communication, and stakeholder management, helping high-performing leaders translate their expertise into influence, credibility, and impact at the most senior levels. Olga holds an MSc in Sociology and Social Psychology, an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management, and is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) - a distinction held by fewer than 3% of coaches globally. With over 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience, she brings both deep psychological insight and real-world business credibility to her work. Her approach blends behavioural science with organisational reality, equipping leaders to navigate pressure, politics, and visibility with confidence and authority.
All sessions by Olga →You can be the most competent person in the room and still lose the budget, the headcount, the promotion. Not because your work wasn't good. Because the decision was already made in a conversation you weren't part of.
That's not politics. That's how organizations actually work. And it's the moment most high performers hit at some point when technical excellence stops being enough, and influence becomes the real currency.
The problem is nobody teaches this explicitly. Leaders manage up when they need something, communicate sideways when there's a problem, and trust that good work will speak for itself. And yet the people who advance who get their initiatives funded, their teams protected, their ideas implemented are not necessarily the most brilliant.
They're the ones who understand how decisions get made. And who make sure they're credible to the people making them.
This session gives you a practical system for stakeholder management that doesn't feel manipulative, exhausting, or like you're begging for attention you've already earned.
During the expert session, Olga Labutina engages participants through a series of interactive activities and Q&A using Mentimeter, an interactive engagement tool.
Most senior professionals know their work is good. What they underestimate is how much of their success depends on people who didn't hire them, don't report to them, and have a hundred other priorities.
That gap between doing excellent work and being recognized, resourced, and advanced for it is a stakeholder management problem. Not a performance problem.
We start with mapping. Who holds formal power. Who holds informal power. Who influences the influencers. Where the real blockers are hiding. Most leaders, when they do this exercise, realize they've been managing two or three people when the actual decision involved seven.
Then we move to relationship architecture. How to build genuine credibility with key stakeholders long before you need their support. Because when the moment comes the budget conversation, the promotion cycle, the high-stakes pitch you cannot cannot cannot be starting from zero.
The leaders who get things done are not better at asking. They're better at not needing to ask from scratch.
The final third of the session is about communication. Specifically, how to frame your work, your ideas, and your requests in language that lands with people who have different priorities, pressures, and success metrics than you do.
The way you talk about your work to your team is not the way you should talk about it to your CFO. Knowing the difference is what separates leaders who get things done from leaders who wonder why nothing moves.
Participants leave with a stakeholder map you've started building for your own context, a relationship cadence you can implement immediately, and the language frameworks to make your next high-stakes conversation actually land.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: You can be the most competent person in the room and still lose the budget, the headcount, the promotion. Not because your work wasn't good.
Olga Labutina is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.6 out of 5, across 25 responses, and rate Olga personally 4.8 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Olga, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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