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

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 career advice tells you to do good work and let it speak for itself. Nobody tells you what is actually being observed on the other side of the table. Nobody tells you what HR leaders and managers are seeing, evaluating, and thinking about early career professionals that they almost never say out loud.

Dr. Dieter Veldsman is Chief HR Scientist at AIHR, a global HR academy serving over 65,000 professionals across 180 countries, a Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg, a former Group Chief HR Officer, and one of the most recognized voices on the future of work. He has presented at over 100 conferences, authored 80 articles, and co-authored books including Work for Humans. In this conversation, he brings the full weight of 18 years on the evaluating side of the table to an audience that has never had access to this view.

In this episode:

• What HR leaders are actually seeing and evaluating in early career professionals that most people have no idea is being observed
• Why the gap between university and the workplace persists even when organizations know it exists, and what it costs early professionals who do not know it is there
• What the research at AIHR reveals about what is changing in terms of what early professionals need to bring to the workplace right now
• What AI is making more valuable in a person, not less, and what someone in year one or two can start building before they ever need it

Real Work Ready

Everything Dr. Veldsman describes from the HR side of the table is exactly what Real Work Ready was built to teach from the professional side. The gap is real. The behaviors are learnable. The program is built for years 0 to 5.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Dieter:

AIHR: aihr.com

Book: Work for Humans

The HR Dialogues: youtube.com/@AIHRAcademytoInnovateHR

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dieterveldsman

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 wait. They wait for the right moment, the clear path, the validation from someone above them that says they are ready. Susana Goitia did not wait. She left her home country with a one-year-old baby, walked into rooms that were not built for her, rose to CEO, transformed the culture of her organization from the inside, and then walked away from it all to start over.

Susana Goitia is a LATAM Commercial Strategy and Growth Advisor who spent 27 years leading commercial strategy and business growth across Latin America, rising to CEO before leaving the corporate world to build something of her own. She was the first woman in multiple roles that had never had one. She is also the host of the podcast Creer X Crecer. In this conversation, she tells the real story of what it takes to bet on yourself before anyone else does.

In this episode:

• What it actually costs and gives back to make a career bet before the path is clear or the outcome is certain
• What it means to walk into rooms that were not built for you and decide how to show up anyway
• How she moved female leadership in her organization from zero to fifty percent and what changing a system from the inside actually required
• What leaving the C-suite to start over taught her that 27 years in corporate never could
• What she would tell her younger self before she got on that plane, and what she wants every early professional to hear before they spend years waiting for permission

Real Work Ready

The bet on yourself starts with knowing what you are actually working with. Real Work Ready gives early professionals the operating system for a career built on their own terms.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Susana:

Website: https://www.susanagoitia.com

Podcast: Creer X Crecer: https://www.susanagoitia.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susana.goitia

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

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

Nobody tells you that your career plan and your life are going to run on separate tracks. Nobody prepares you for the moment they collide. And nobody tells you that the decisions you make in the hardest chapter of your life are some of the most consequential ones you will ever make for your career.

Erica Olenski is a healthcare strategist, Board Certified Patient Advocate, founder of August's Artists, and a nationally recognized voice on human-centered innovation and lived experience. She did not pause her career during the hardest chapter of her life. She made strategic decisions inside it. This conversation is about what that actually looked like, and what every early professional needs to hear before they face their own defining moment.

In this episode:

• What it actually means to make strategic career decisions when life stops cooperating with your plan

• What building August's Artists and Monarch Futures during the hardest seasons taught her about momentum and what is possible inside adversity

• What the healthcare system's failure to account for the physiological reality of patients and caregivers reveals about how we design all professional environments

• What every early professional can start building now so that when their defining moment arrives, they are ready for it

📊 Explore the free Workplace Decoder to understand what actually drives performance at work:

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About the show:

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast for early career professionals navigating years 0 to 5. Every episode exposes the unwritten rules of the workplace: what managers are actually evaluating, what new professionals consistently get wrong, and the operating behaviors that determine long-term career success. Designed for Gen Z and early career professionals, as well as HR leaders, managers, and L&D teams building workplace-ready talent.

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Connect with Erica:

August's Artists: https://www.augustsartists.org

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

Connect with Laura Massetti:

Website: realworkready.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

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Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

www.realworkready.com

Most professionals are never taught how to manage the relationship with their manager. Nobody tells you what they actually need from you. Nobody tells you that most early-career friction is not about the work. It is about a relationship nobody prepared you to navigate.

In this episode of No One Tells You This — a Real Work Ready podcast — leadership advisor and author Jeff Sigel shares what 20+ years inside corporate environments taught him about managing up at work: what managers actually notice, what new employees consistently get wrong, and what every early career professional needs to start doing before they realize they needed it.

In this episode:

• What managing up at work actually means and why most new employees are already doing it wrong

• What managers actually need from employees that nobody communicates before day one

• How to build a strong manager-employee relationship starting from your first week

• What to do when your manager is disengaged, unclear, or not that good at leading

• The communication habits that build trust and credibility upward in any organization

📊 Explore the free Workplace Decoder to understand what actually drives performance at work:

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Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction

[XX:XX] – What Managing Up at Work Actually Means

[XX:XX] – The Mistake Most New Employees Make

[XX:XX] – What Your Manager Actually Needs From You

[XX:XX] – How to Build the Relationship From Day One

[XX:XX] – Communicating Upward Without Creating Noise

[XX:XX] – When Your Manager Is Difficult or Disengaged

[XX:XX] – Key Takeaway

About the show:

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast for early career professionals navigating years 0 to 5. Every episode exposes the unwritten rules of the workplace: what managers are actually evaluating, what new professionals consistently get wrong, and the operating behaviors that determine long-term career success. Designed for Gen Z and early career professionals, as well as HR leaders, managers, and L&D teams building workplace-ready talent.

🔔 Subscribe for more workplace readiness, early career advice, and leadership insights:

https://www.youtube.com/@Realworkreadyhq

👍 Like this video if it helped. Drop your biggest takeaway in the comments.

Connect with Jeff Sigel:

Website: jeffsigel.com

Book — The Middle Matters: amazon.com/dp/B0D75V8Z7Y

Course: jeffsigel.com/middle-matters-course

Connect with Laura Massetti:

Website: realworkready.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

#ManagingUp #ManagingUpAtWork #CareerAdvice #WorkplaceReadiness #EarlyCareerSuccess #ManagingYourManager #CareerGrowth #WorkplaceSkills #RealWorkReady #NoOneTellsYouThis #ProfessionalDevelopment #GenZCareer #NewEmployee #WorkplaceCommunication #LeadershipAdvice #CareerTips #WorkplaceSuccess

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 career advice tells you to work harder, learn more, collect more skills. Nobody tells you that at some point, all of that plateaus. The real inflection points in a career do not come from doing more of what you already do. They come from being in rooms you would not otherwise be in, with people you would not otherwise meet.

Giuseppe Stigliano is a Global CEO, Thinkers50 honoree, HBR Advisory Council member, and co-author of three books with Philip Kotler. He has delivered keynotes in more than 30 countries, built a global career from Italy, and most recently founded The Next Leap, a learning community built on a single conviction: exposure is what moves careers forward, not skills alone. In this conversation, he brings that thesis down to earth for every professional who is working hard and wondering why it is not translating into momentum.

In this episode:

• Why skills, frameworks, and hard work plateau, and what actually creates the inflection points that change a career trajectory
• What early professionals across three universities in two countries are consistently getting wrong right now
• How a young Italian PhD got into Philip Kotler's room and what he did once he was there
• What someone in year one or two of their career can do right now to start creating exposure when they do not have the network, the title, or the budget

Real Work Ready

The exposure thesis assumes a foundation. Real Work Ready builds that foundation for early professionals before they spend a decade without it.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Giuseppe:

Website: giuseppestigliano.com

The Next Leap: thenextleap.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/giuseppestigliano

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