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Live On Zoom · June 17th at 12:00 PM PDT

The Leadership Institute
90-Minute Live Masterclass

How Senior Professionals Get Promoted Into Leadership Roles In 90 Days And Close 20K-50K+ Compensation Gaps Using The Career Management Framework

WITHOUT Waiting For Your Manager To Notice, Going Back To School, Or Sitting Through Another Review Cycle

Marie HorvathHosted by Marie Horvath
June 17th at 12:00 PM PDT Live on Zoom No Replay

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What Previous Clients Are Saying

Disclaimer: Individual results vary and are not typical. The outcomes shared reflect the specific effort, strategy execution, and circumstances of each client. Your results will depend on your background, commitment, and application of the strategies taught.

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Revealed Live On This Free Masterclass

The 3 Career Secrets That Separate The People Who Get Promoted From The People Who Get Passed Over

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Secret #1: Your Manager Is Not The Person Who Decides Your Promotion

Your manager can nominate you, but they can't promote you alone.

The verdict is decided by a room full of senior leaders who barely know your name.

You've been preparing your lawyer but you've never addressed the jury.

In this masterclass, you'll learn exactly who the real decision-makers are, what they're evaluating, and how to become visible to the people who actually control your trajectory.

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Secret #2: What Made You Successful Is The Same Thing That's Keeping You Stuck

The better you are at your current role, the more leadership needs you to stay exactly where you are.

You're being passed over because leadership can't yet see you operating at the next level and every time you prove you're the best executor in the room, you're reinforcing the exact perception that's keeping you out of the room above it.

You'll learn how to shift that signal without dropping the ball on your actual work.

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Secret #3: The Promotion Conversation Is Already Won Or Lost Before You Ever Walk Into The Room

Most professionals think the big moment is when they finally get that meeting but by the time they walk in, it's already decided.

The real outcome was determined in the weeks and months before, by how your work was positioned, by what your skip-level believes about you, and by whether your name had already come up in rooms you weren't in.

You'll learn how to engineer that pre-conversation so that when you finally ask, the answer is already yes.

June 17th at 12:00 PM PDT Live on Zoom

On This Free Masterclass

You'll Discover…

  • The 4-step system I use with my private clients to go from "stuck and overlooked" to "promoted and compensated" in 90 days or less

  • Why 93% of professionals have never received a single hour of formal career strategy training and how that one gap explains almost every frustrating "not yet" you've received in your career

  • Why being the most reliable, hardest-working, always-delivers person on your team is quietly working against your advancement, and the specific repositioning move that breaks the pattern without risking your current standing

  • How promotion decisions get made in under three minutes, and what your manager needs to be able to say about you for the answer to be yes.

  • The 20K-50K annual gap that compounds every year you stay one level below where you should be

  • The frameworks applied to real career situations in real time so the skill starts feeling usable before the session ends

And much, much more…

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Is This For You?

Experienced Professionals Know Immediately If This Is For Them

Who This Is For

You're in the right place if:

  • Your manager trusts you, your team relies on you, and leadership knows you deliver

  • You've been passed over for a promotion (once or more than once) and you still can't fully explain why

  • You've received vague feedback like "you need more executive presence" or "not yet" with zero specific, actionable explanation attached

  • You've tried speaking up more, taking on extra projects, networking, or asking your manager directly, and the needle hasn't moved

  • You know your compensation doesn't reflect your actual contribution, and you want a clear, strategic plan to close that gap

  • You want to understand how promotion decisions actually get made from someone who's been in the rooms where they happen

Who This Is Not For

Just to be transparent:

  • This isn't for professionals who are early in their careers and still building foundational skills

  • This isn't for people who think the answer is simply "network more" or "be more visible"

  • This isn't for people who aren't willing to apply a framework

  • This isn't for anyone who wants guarantees about specific career outcomes because results depend on your effort, your execution, and your specific situation

  • This isn't for people who've already figured out exactly how to make their value impossible to ignore to the people deciding their future

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Who's Teaching This
Marie Horvath
Marie Horvath
The Leadership Institute

Marie Horvath has spent years coaching executives at some of the world's most competitive companies, including Google, Meta, Biotech firms, and high-growth brands.

She's worked one-on-one and in extremely small, intimate groups with hundreds of professionals across five countries and three continents.

Her advisory time inside Alphabet is billed at $5,000 per hour.

She's been in the calibration meetings, talent reviews, and boardroom conversations where promotion decisions actually happen.

She knows exactly what leadership is evaluating in those rooms, what makes them champion someone, and what makes them say "not yet" for another year.

For the first time, she's sharing that insider framework publicly in this free 90-minute masterclass.

She uses proprietary diagnostic tools and standardized assessments to show professionals exactly where they're stalling and gives them the precise strategic moves to close the gap between what they can do and what leadership currently sees.

The professionals who've gone through her methodology have landed and advanced at Meta, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Salesforce, Lyft, Stripe, Databricks, PayPal, JPMorgan, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and dozens more.

$10.4M
in documented salary increases generated by her clients - not by working harder, but by learning how the game actually works.

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See what's possible.

Disclaimer: The compensation outcomes listed above reflect individual client results achieved through the active application of Strategic Career Management frameworks. They are not guarantees or representations of typical results. Every professional's situation is different, and your results will depend on your individual circumstances, effort, and execution.

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Common Questions

Everything professionals ask before registering... Answered.

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Important

June 17th · 12:00 PM PDT · This Session Is Only Available Live

Somewhere inside your organization right now, a calibration meeting is either already underway or quietly being scheduled, and your name is going to come up in a room you won't be invited to. Someone will have two or three minutes to make the case for you, and what they say in those minutes is shaped almost entirely by impressions that were formed weeks or months before the meeting ever happened.

That's just how promotion decisions work at every serious company. The professionals who advance aren't the ones working the hardest in isolation. They're the ones who understand that reality and prepare for it deliberately, instead of hoping their performance will speak for itself when the moment comes.

The professional landscape is also shifting faster than most people realize. According to Gartner, by the end of 2026, 20% of large organizations will use AI to significantly restructure their middle management layers. In that environment, the people who keep advancing are the ones leadership already sees operating at the next level, not the ones still waiting to be noticed.

Strategic positioning is what makes your value impossible to overlook in exactly the moments that count: calibrations, talent reviews, headcount conversations, and the quiet hallway exchanges that decide who gets championed and who gets deferred for another year.

June 17th, you'll walk away with a clear diagnosis of what's actually been stalling your advancement, the three decision drivers that determine who gets promoted at your level, and the exact language to use when the conversation finally happens, so you stop guessing and start moving with intention.

The only thing standing between where you are right now and a clear, sequenced plan to close the gap is a seat at this masterclass. It happens once, live, and it isn't being recorded.

June 17th at 12:00 PM PDT Live on Zoom

Questions? Call or text us at (650) 308-4362

The information provided on this page is for general informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional, financial, or career advice. Registering for this masterclass does not create a client relationship or obligate you to purchase any services. Every professional's career situation is different. Results depend on individual circumstances, effort, consistency, and execution of the strategies taught. No specific outcomes, promotions, salary increases, or career results are guaranteed. Testimonials and client examples reflect individual experiences and are not promises of future results. The referenced compensation figures reflect specific, documented outcomes from individual clients and should not be interpreted as typical or expected results. Any guidance shared during the masterclass is intended to provide education and strategic frameworks only and should not be considered financial, legal, or professional advice. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Facebook, Instagram, Meta, Google, LinkedIn, or any other third-party platform. Any references to third-party companies or platforms are for informational context only. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.