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The Leadership Institute
The Second Skill Set
12-Week Strategic Career Management

The Skill Set That Separates Who Gets Promoted From Who Gets Passed Over

And Why Nobody Ever Taught It to You

The 12-Week Strategic Career Management Program that has produced over 80% promotions within 6 months with over $10.4 million in documented salary increases. Now Open. Enrollment Closes Sunday at 11:59 PM PST.

Trusted by professionals from Meta, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Salesforce, and other top companies.

Masterclass-Only Offer

Everything you get when you enroll today.

This stack is available only to live masterclass attendees and only until Sunday at 11:59 PM PST.

The Core Program

12 Weeks Live with Marie

Value
$90,000

18 hours of live strategic coaching with someone who charges organizations $5,000/hour. Every session is live. Every framework gets deployed the same week you learn it, in your real job, with your real stakeholders.

What you install: The Four Power Moves
Strategic Positioning

A Career Strategy Blueprint that maps the gap between your current role and your target role, then engineers the moves to close it.

Executive Presence and Communication

Score yourself across 15 measurable EP factors and install the frameworks that make senior leaders say yes the first time.

Power and Advocacy

The Power Map identifies who actually decides your future. The Delivery Deposit converts them from observers into active sponsors.

Negotiation and Compensation

Negotiate from documented value using a Value Portfolio written in the exact language leadership uses to justify compensation.

Bonuses below included with one-time payment only

The six bonuses are not included with the payment plan.

Implementation Bonuses

Six tools to deploy the system fast.

The Power Map Template

$300

The stakeholder mapping framework delivered as a reusable tool you can apply to any organization, any role, for the rest of your career. Map who actually controls your future, and what they need to see from you.

The Value Portfolio Builder

$300

The framework that quantifies your contributions in the exact language your organization uses to justify compensation decisions. The difference between "I feel like I deserve more" and "here is the documented business impact that supports this adjustment."

The EP TRIAD 15-Factor Assessment

$500

A proprietary diagnostic that scores your executive presence across 15 measurable factors: Character, Substance, and Leadership Style. The same assessment Marie uses with her $5,000/hour B2B clients.

The Career Conversation Script Library

$500

Exact language for the conversations that determine your trajectory: asking for promotions, negotiating raises, requesting stretch assignments, and positioning yourself during reorganizations. These are tested scripts from hundreds of real coaching engagements.

Full Session Recordings (1-Year Access)

$500

Every live session is recorded in full. Miss a week? Watch it on your schedule. Want to revisit the negotiation frameworks before a real conversation? It's there. Full access for one year from your enrollment date.

AI Career Strategist Package (Program Access)

$1,200

A custom-built AI toolset accessible during the program that helps you assess and measure your progress as you work through each framework. It supports your assignments and implementation, helps you analyze your data, and cuts your between-session work in half. A strategic analyst on call while you do the real work.

Enroll Today Bonus

90-Minute Private VIP Strategy Session with Marie

$7,500

An intimate small-group session where Marie shows you exactly how to earn your investment back inside the first 14 days of the program. Marie charges organizations $5,000/hour for this advisory. Available only to those who enroll today. Once today ends, it's gone.

Total Value
$100,800
Your Investment Today
$3,997
$2,997

That's 97% less than what Marie's private B2B clients pay for the same frameworks.

Best Value · All Bonuses Included
One Payment
$3,997
$2,997
  • ✓ Complete 12-week program
  • ✓ All 6 implementation bonuses
  • ✓ VIP Strategy Session (today only)
Payment Plan
$4,999 total
3 × $1,333

$3,999 total

  • ✓ Complete 12-week program
  • ✗ Bonuses not included
  • ✗ VIP Session not included

Enrollment closes Sunday 11:59 PM PST. Fast-acting bonus (VIP Session) expires Wednesday 11:59 PM PST.

The receipts.

Signed at Meta, $850K, L7 manager role

Signed at Meta, $850K, L7 manager role

Offer from Lyft, approximately $750,000

Offer from Lyft, approximately $750,000

$360K base + $650K stock + $50K sign-on bonus

$360K base + $650K stock + $50K sign-on bonus

You already know the problem. Let's fix it.

You spent 90 minutes with me. You saw the pattern. Skill Set #1 (doing exceptional work) is what got you here. Skill Set #2 (the strategic architecture of advancement) is what's missing.

Every month you wait, the gap compounds. A $30K compensation gap costs you $2,500 every month. A $100K gap is half a million over five years. The math is not subtle.

But the deeper cost is not just the money. It is the quiet moment when you start explaining away what you want, shrinking your own ambition, and giving up on the part of you that still knows you are meant for more.

Here is the system that closes it.

Kristen
$365K increase

L7 at Google → VP at Salesforce. Within 2 months.

Gretchen
$198K increase

Director at Google → VP at JumpCloud. Within 3 months.

Leela
$28K increase

Internal promotion achieved at Google. Within 4 months.

Marie Horvath

Marie Horvath

The Second Skill Set

Marie Horvath has spent years in the rooms where promotion decisions actually get made. She has sat across from executives during calibration sessions, heard what they weigh, what they dismiss, what makes them fight for one candidate and pass over another. She knows what they're looking for because they've told her directly, behind closed doors, in conversations most professionals will never be part of.

The Second Skill Set is built from that intelligence. 18 hours of live strategic coaching designed around how these decisions actually work, not how people think they work. At Marie's B2B advisory rate of $5,000 per hour, that's $90,000 in value. Your investment: $2,997.

Why there is no guarantee on this page

$10.4Min documented
salary increases
and growing

There is no guarantee on this page. I don't need one. $10.4 million in documented salary increases and growing tells the story better than any promise I could write. The professionals who show up, do the assignments, and implement the frameworks see results.

— Marie Horvath

And it keeps happening.

Got the promo call, seal of approval at the next level

Got the promo call, seal of approval at the next level

Negotiated up $100K, from $1.35M to $1.45M

Negotiated up $100K, from $1.35M to $1.45M

Promoted to L6, "Thanks for all of your invaluable help in making it happen"

Promoted to L6, "Thanks for all of your invaluable help in making it happen"

FAQ

Still have questions? We get it.

You don't have a time problem. You have a priority problem. You're spending 50+ hours a week making other people's careers work. This program asks for 90 minutes a week to finally make yours work. The professionals who join this program are VPs, directors, and senior leaders running teams, managing stakeholders, and juggling more than you'd believe. They show up because they understand something: the cost of staying stuck is measured in years, not hours. Every week you wait, someone less talented but more strategically positioned moves ahead of you. That's not a scheduling conflict. That's a career leak.

Proof

Real professionals. Real results.

Offer negotiated with $20K extra
Swati

She really helped me negotiate my offer and gave me the confidence to increase the ask. I was skeptical about group coaching, but I was wrong, it helped me a lot. Don't hold yourself back. Just go for it.

Internal promotion with $10K extra
Malieka

Marie helped me see what I'd been missing — and walk into the room with the language I needed to claim it.

50% raise into a CTO role
Zara

I joined looking to escape an unhappy role. I got a better position with a 50% raise, and eventually moved into a CTO role with a 50% total compensation increase.

Doubled my income
Lesya

I doubled my salary moving from Tesla to my next role. The money I invested in Marie's coaching, I got back within a few months with my new compensation package.

Helped me perform and secure my job
Brenda

Marie's coaching changed how I showed up in the most consequential moments of my role — and it kept me in the seat I'd worked hard to earn.

Base salary increased by $60K
Grace

Through her coaching I'm in a position of significant increase in base salary. So it's definitely been very tangible. I'm also in a better mental space to build relationships with my new colleagues.

Completely changed my perspective on career management
Gergana

I stopped thinking about my career as a series of jobs and started running it like a strategy. That shift changed everything.

Kept my job — $200K in income protected
Rachel

When my role was on the line, Marie helped me reposition fast. The income I protected paid for the coaching many times over.

Promoted to Senior Director with $100K increase
Kelly

I'd been ready for the next level for a long time. Marie gave me the framework — and the language — to actually get there.

Negotiated a significant increase
Erica

Marie's coaching was critical in my decision to make a move. I walked into the negotiation knowing exactly what to ask for, and why.

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More receipts.

Box raised the equity to $100,000, CEO personally worked on the offer

Box raised the equity to $100,000, CEO personally worked on the offer

Got promoted to Director

Got promoted to Director

$1.1M senior director offer, chose Microsoft, walked away from eBay

$1.1M senior director offer, chose Microsoft, walked away from eBay

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