In a Nutshell
You’re excellent at your job. That’s exactly why you’re not a VP yet.
This 30-day course teaches you what nobody at work will tell you: the skills that made you a great Director are actively preventing your promotion. Not because you’re doing them wrong. Because you’re doing them too well.
Learn the exact frameworks Directors in manufacturing, finance, professional services, software development, and IT use to earn VP promotions. Close the gap between being a reliable executor and becoming an undeniable strategic leader.
This Course Will Teach You How To
- Think strategically, not just tactically - Move from fixing problems to driving business outcomes
- Build leaders, not dependencies - Create the succession plan that frees you to be promoted
- Say "no" strategically - Stop the burnout cycle while commanding more respect
- Influence without authority - Get buy-in from peers who don't report to you
- Speak the language of the C-Suite - Communicate with brevity and business impact
- Lead change without creating chaos - Orchestrate buy-in instead of directing compliance
- Make high-stakes decisions with incomplete data - The number one fear of new VPs, demystified
- Execute your 30-day visibility plan - Systematic approach to getting noticed by decision-makers
This Course Is For
Directors & Senior Managers who:
- Have 5+ years of experience but feel stuck at their current level
- Are technically excellent but invisible to the C-Suite
- Keep hearing "you're doing great, keep it up" but never get the VP offer
- Work in manufacturing, finance, professional services, software development, or IT
- Want to advance without compromising their integrity or becoming "political"
This course is NOT for:
- People who think tenure alone equals promotion
- Leaders who refuse to build relationships across the organization
- Anyone looking for theory without action (this requires weekly implementation)
Course Description
Escape The Director Trap
You’re great at your job. You hit your numbers. Your team respects you. You’ve been told to “keep doing what you’re doing.”
That advice is keeping you stuck.
Research from DDI shows that 77% of organizations lack leadership readiness, yet only 20% of Directors ever get promoted to VP within their current company.
Why? Because the skills that made you a great Director (execution, reliability, functional expertise) aren’t the skills that make you a VP. Over-relying on them actually signals to leadership that you’re a “doer,” not a strategic leader.
You’re caught in the Director Trap: too valuable executing in the weeds to be promoted to the strategy table.
The Solution: A Strategic Shift in 30 Days
You don’t need another degree. You don’t need to work harder. You need a strategic shift, and you need it systematically implemented.
The VP Blueprint is a focused, 30-day course designed to close the specific gaps between Director-level execution and VP-level strategy. Based on frameworks from the 4.7-star rated book Promotable and refined through work with 500+ executives, this course gives you the exact playbook for making the leap.
- Only 20% of Directors get promoted to VP internally
- 35-40% of Directors who develop VP-level skills secure VP roles externally within 2 years
- The #1 barrier isn't capability, it's visibility and positioning
This course addresses both: the skills you need AND the visibility to demonstrate them.
Frequently Asked Questions
The course itself is 90 minutes of focused content you can access anywhere you have internet. But here’s the thing: the videos aren’t where the transformation happens. It’s the weekly implementation. Each lesson gives you one specific action to take that week, 30-60 minutes of real work. That’s what closes the gap between Director and VP.
No. This course gives you the frameworks and the action plan. Whether you get promoted depends on openings at your company and how well you execute. What I can tell you is this prepares you to compete for VP roles, whether internal or external.
 Yes. Promotable gives you the philosophy and the why. The Blueprint gives you the how with specific frameworks and weekly action plans. Think of the book as the foundation and this course as the implementation manual.
The frameworks apply across manufacturing, finance, professional services, software development, IT, and beyond. Leadership gaps between Director and VP look the same everywhere. I use industry-specific examples so you see how to apply the concepts in your context.
Some people complete this course and that’s exactly what they needed. Others realize they want direct coaching through the process. You can work with me or one of our coaches for individual executive coaching. Your investment in this course gives you priority access and a discount when we open enrollment for the VP Accelerator program.
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