Real Work Ready

The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.

Learn more: www.realworkready.com

Nobody tells you that the skills that get you into the room are not always the skills that help you lead once you are there. Nobody tells you what it actually costs to carry responsibility for other people, or what it feels like to make decisions when the answer is not clear. Nobody tells you what the best leaders actually do differently on the inside.

Eric Nitzberg is an executive coach and trusted advisor to CEOs and C-suite leaders across technology, software, and life sciences. Before launching his coaching practice, he spent several years as a communication coach at Stanford Graduate School of Business teaching executive presence and persuasive storytelling. He is known for his ability to help successful leaders evolve, and for bringing a deep humanity to that work that builds the kind of trust most people spend their whole careers looking for.

In this episode:

• What early professionals consistently get wrong about what leadership actually requires of a person
• What executive presence really is, how it actually develops, and what gets in the way of it for people who should have it
• What the most effective leaders do differently under real pressure and genuine uncertainty
• What someone in year one or two of their career can start building right now, before they ever have the title

Real Work Ready

Being great at your job is the starting point. Real Work Ready gives early professionals the six behaviors that determine how that work gets seen, understood, and acted on by the people around them.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Eric:

Website: https://www.sierraleadership.com

Blog: https://sierraleadership.com/insights/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericnitzberg/

Connect with Laura:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

www.realworkready.com

Real Work Ready

The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.

Learn more: www.realworkready.com

Most people spend the first years of their career believing that if they do great work, everything else will follow. The opportunity. The recognition. The trust. Nobody tells you that being excellent is the floor, not the ceiling. The ceiling is whether the people around you understand what you bring, trust that you can deliver, and actually choose you when it matters.

Wes Towers is the founder of Uplift 360, an Australian digital agency that helps construction and industrial brands get found, get trusted, and get chosen online. When he was told that AI could make his business less valuable, he did not retreat. He rebuilt his entire approach around it, while doubling down on the thing no algorithm can replace: human clarity, trust, and the ability to communicate your value in a way that actually lands. He is also the host of the podcast Built. Trusted. Chosen.

In this episode:

• Why being excellent at your job is the starting point, not the finish line, and what you have to build on top of it
• What it actually means to be built, trusted, and chosen in a professional context and where most people stall in that sequence
• What AI cannot replace in a human professional and why that makes certain skills more valuable, not less
• What someone early in their career can start doing right now to communicate their value more clearly and be chosen for the things that matter

Real Work Ready

Being great at your job is the starting point. Real Work Ready gives early professionals the six behaviors that determine how that work gets seen, understood, and chosen by the people around them.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Wes:

Website: https://uplift360.com.au

Podcast: Built. Trusted. Chosen.: https://builttrustedchosen.buzzsprout.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/westowers

Connect with Laura:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

www.realworkready.com

Real Work Ready

The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.

Learn more: www.realworkready.com

At some point in your career you will have the right idea, build the right case, do everything correctly, and still watch it go nowhere. And nobody will tell you why. Not because the work was wrong. Because something else is operating inside organizations that most people never learn to see.

Julia Bardmesser is the CEO of Data4Real, an adjunct professor at NYU Stern School of Business, a bestselling author, and a board advisor to multiple startups. She has spent over 25 years leading data-driven transformation inside some of the most complex institutions in financial services. But the conversation she came to have is not about data. It is about something she writes about in her LinkedIn newsletter that this audience needs to understand long before they have a corner office: political capital. What it is, how you build it, and why being excellent at your job is not the same as being able to move your agenda forward.

In this episode:

• What political capital actually is and why every professional needs to understand it whether they think of themselves as political or not
• The gap between technical excellence and organizational influence, and what it costs you when you only develop one
• How to start building political capital when you are new with no track record, no relationships, and no formal authority
• How to hold your integrity and your standards while learning to navigate organizational dynamics, and where the line is

Real Work Ready

Understanding how organizations actually work is one of the six things Real Work Ready teaches early professionals before they spend years figuring it out the hard way.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Julia:

Website: https://www.data4real.com

LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-bardmesser/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JuliaBardmesser

Connect with Laura:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

www.realworkready.com