S1 E14 · Practice Guide
The Career Mobility Audit
Free companion workbook · The Career Ladder Never Really Existed
They called it a career path. It was actually just a holding pattern. This guide is the companion to S1 E14 of Brave Proximity, where Marissa Green and Susan Page expose the broken myth of corporate career pathing and give you the tools to stop waiting for a promotion that the system was never going to deliver. Use it to audit your current track, map your real value, and build the case for your next move — on your terms.
What’s inside
The Holding Pattern Diagnostic
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Three checkpoints to assess whether your current development track is real progression or a strategic retention tool designed to keep you engaged without delivering actual structural advancement or compensation.
The Transferable Genius Canvas
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A worksheet to catalog your skills independently of your current job title or function. The capabilities so transferable they could solve a crisis in a completely different department — and the language to articulate them.
The Career Bravery Scripts
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Word-for-word language to use in your next development conversation — to cut through the annual checkbox ritual and force an honest conversation about actual progression, timeline, and compensation alignment.
The Pilot Brief
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Instead of asking for a promotion, pitch a project. A one-page framework for identifying a structural gap or stalled initiative you can own — and using it to make your value undeniable before asking for anything.