Reality Check
Free. 12 minutes. Mildly confronting.
Same job title. Third year running.
You've done the work. Someone else got the job.
- Heard nothing back
- Told you're “nearly there”
- Clapped at someone else's promotion
Nobody's told you why. Not properly. So I built something that will. Kindly. Mostly.
Free. About 12 minutes. Bring a biscuit.
What your report shows
ExamplePlus the one thing keeping you off the radar, what it's quietly costing you, and the move that changes it.
What this is
The honest conversation nobody's had with you.
40 questions about where you are, how you're seen, and what you're doing about it. Twelve minutes, give or take. By the end you'll know more about your career than your last three appraisals told you combined. Low bar, admittedly.
The gap between how you think you're coming across and how you're actually seen
The one thing keeping you off the radar of the people who decide
What another year of this will cost you (and not just in money, though also money)
Your next move. One. Not a list of forty.
You're not bad at your job. You're just very good at keeping it a secret.
The bit nobody says out loud
How you see yourself and how they see you are two different films.
How you see yourself
Working hard. Doing it properly. Waiting, very patiently, to be noticed. Any day now.
How they see you
Lovely. Reliable. One of several lovely, reliable people.
The Reality Check measures the distance between those two. Then it tells you what to do about it, which is the useful bit.
The awkward truth
Good work gets you in the room. It doesn't get you noticed.
You've probably told yourself it's timing. Or budget. Or your boss, who seems to be staying in that seat until the end of time. Sometimes it is. More often, you're doing exactly what everyone around you is doing. Brilliantly. Which is the problem.
Staying late, taking on the hard stuff, delivering on time. Your peers are doing it too. It's the entry fee, not the prize.
So, what are you doing that they're not?
If the answer was a long pause, you're in the right place. No judgement. I've done that pause myself.
Who this is for
This is for you if:
- 1
You've been at the same level for two years or more, you're good at your job, and you genuinely can't work out what's missing.
- 2
You've watched someone get the role you wanted and said “delighted for them” while dying slightly inside.
- 3
You've applied elsewhere and heard nothing back, or been offered a job that pays about one nice dinner a month more.
- 4
You've been told to “build your brand” and “be more visible” and you'd honestly rather stick a fork in your eye.
- 5
You know something has to change. You just don't know what, and you've run out of things to google.
Nodded at three of those? Same. Let's sort it.
Who's asking all these questions
Hi, I'm Dee. I'll be your honest friend today.
I've spent years in corporate watching brilliant people get overlooked while others sailed past them. For a while, one of them was me.
It was rarely about talent. It was whether they could see how they were actually coming across. Most couldn't, because nobody told them. Feedback in most organisations is about as useful as a weather forecast.
I'm also a best-selling author and an award-winning coach, which my mother mentions far more often than I do.
So, I built the conversation I wish someone had had with me. Honest, kind, and over in twelve minutes.
What people say
Real results from people who faced the truth.
I've been doing everything I'm supposed to do. This was the first time someone actually told me why it wasn't working.
Sarah M.
Senior Analyst
Honestly? I didn't want to hear it. But I needed to. And now I know exactly what I need to fix.
Rachel T.
Project Manager
I always thought I was being overlooked. Turns out I was being invisible. There's a difference.
Jennifer L.
Marketing Lead
Go on. Have a look. I'll wait.
Free. Twelve minutes. The conversation your manager meant to have with you, and didn't.
40 questions, about 12 minutes. Some of them are just for fun.