Have you ever trained the person who got promoted over you? Or held your entire department together behind the scenes while someone else got credit for the results?

Here is what no one tells you about getting promoted: it is rarely the hardest worker who moves up. It is the person whose work is visible to the right people.

In this episode, Jill Avey and SisterSmart coach Sarah Spencer break down the five types of invisible work that women leaders take on every day -- work that carries enormous strategic value but almost never surfaces in performance reviews or promotion conversations. You will learn how to identify this hidden work, translate it into impact language, and build a visible case for your promotion to VP without changing who you are.

You will also hear about Simone, a leader who was passed over for promotion twice before using this exact framework to land her VP promotion in under 10 months.

Whether you are currently being overlooked, preparing for your next review, or simply tired of being the person who holds everything together without recognition -- this episode gives you a practical framework you can start using this week.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. Why non-promotable tasks are keeping women stuck in the leadership pipeline
2. The 5 types of invisible work that are secretly your biggest career assets
3. How to use impact language to translate behind-the-scenes contributions into a powerful promotion case
4. The 4-step Quiet Promotion Framework for making your invisible work visible to decision makers
5. How Simone went from being passed over twice to landing her VP promotion in under 10 months

0:00 -- Introduction: The invisible work problem and why the hardest worker rarely gets promoted

4:57 -- Why your results are not speaking for themselves (and Jill's own experience with this trap)

5:51 -- Meet the 5 types of invisible work with SisterSmart coach Sarah Spencer

16:30 -- Simone's story: passed over twice, promoted to VP in under 10 months using impact language

19:15 -- How to use impact language to completely change the story you tell about your work

20:45 -- The Quiet Promotion Framework: 4 practical steps to make your invisible work visible

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Topics covered in this episode include: invisible work at work, getting promoted from director to VP, women in leadership, executive presence for women, non-promotable tasks, self-promotion at work, how to ask for a promotion, career advancement for women, leadership development for women, building visibility at work, impact language for leaders, how to get noticed at work, and the quiet promotion strategy.

1. Episode 40: How to Build a Professional Network (referenced for deeper work on strategic relationships)
2. Emotional Labor Episode 42
3. Malia Mason episode 44 on non-promotable tasks (referenced as the previous episode)
4. The Bates Model of Leadership Presence (referenced by Sarah Spencer in the executive presence discussion)