
You're doing the work. Someone else is getting the promotion.
If you've been told you're "reliable," "detail-oriented," or that you "always deliver"—and then passed over for advancement—you're experiencing what I call the Reliable Paradox.
This workshop is for you if:
Organizations with visible women leaders see 21% higher profitability, 30% better retention, and 45% more innovation.
It's time your excellence became observable.
During the expert session, Olga Labutina engages participants through a series of interactive activities and Q&A using Mentimeter, an interactive engagement tool.
You'll discover:
After coaching over 1,000 senior women leaders from Amazon, LinkedIn, Stripe, and LVMH, I've seen the same pattern: the very strengths that got you here are now holding you back.
The uncomfortable truth:
At a certain level, execution alone isn't enough. Decision-makers promote people they can see as leaders—and if you've been conditioned to let your work speak for itself, you've become invisible exactly when visibility matters most.
This isn't about "leaning in" or "speaking up more."
This is about understanding why women face a silent tax at work that doesn't show up in job descriptions but determines who advances. It's about recognizing the conditioning that keeps high-performing women stuck—and learning practical strategies that feel authentic, not performative.
It is interactive, and the block above 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.
You're doing the work. Someone else is getting the promotion. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
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 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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