For professionals whose work is better than their reputation
You're not takenas seriously asyou should be.
At your level, you should be farther along than where you are, and you know it. Offers don't come your way. Your team is comfortable talking past you. Everyone is making a judgement of you in their head from signals you don't realize you're giving off.
Don't let your career lag behind what you're capable of.
120+ professionals audited90 minutes, one on one1 written findings document
69% of managers avoid telling you what they think of you◆Fewer than 1 in 10 get promoted in a given year◆7% think leadership training works◆81% couldn't act on the feedback they got◆69% of managers avoid telling you what they think of you◆Fewer than 1 in 10 get promoted in a given year◆7% think leadership training works◆81% couldn't act on the feedback they got◆
The silent consequences, in numbers
69%
of managers avoid telling you what they think of you.
Nobody tells you their read of you. But they can't help showing it.
How someone reads you sits at the intersection of three things: your explicit signals, your implicit signals, and their lens. Most people think they've done the work, and that's how it's received. They don't realize it's being read through all three at once.
Explicit signals. Hard facts people already know: title, level, tenure, background.
Implicit signals. The specifics: how you talk, what you notice, what you push back on.
Their lens. What they pick up, and what it means to them.
Their story of you lies in the intersection. You can't see it from inside it. But you can deduce it from the signals they give off.
The roles you keep getting cast in. How you communicate with your team, and how you read them. Your explicit and implicit signals, and how they land.
What we don't do
No scripts to memorise. No body-language tricks. No "executive presence" coaching. Behaviour is the output. We work on the read underneath it.
What you leave with
A written findings document: the specific ways you're being misread, in plain language. The sentence nobody at work will ever say to you.
Less than one month of the raise you're not getting.
$490
USD · once · all in
See the math
Promoted this cyclePassed over once
$12,000
less in year one: the promotion raise you didn't get.
$180,000
behind over ten years, if you're only ever one cycle late. Every later raise is a percentage of a smaller number, and nobody's holding your place.
Illustrative model, not a promise: promotion raise ~10% and ~3.3% annual merit (Mercer, 1,100+ US employers, 2025); promotion cadence every 3 years; "passed over" path gets the same promotions one cycle later. Move the slider. It's your number that matters.
After the audit
The Implementation.
For when knowing isn't enough. You've got the findings; now you want the room to finally see you differently. Eight weeks, working on the real situations as they happen: the meeting on Thursday, the one-to-one you're dreading, the pitch. We change what you're signalling, one behaviour at a time, until people start treating you like the person you already are.
Most people don't need this. The ones who do, know it by the end of the audit.
$1,900
USD · 8 × 60 min · after the audit
Who's reading you
Asha Jacob
I've spent thousands of hours with quiet, capable professionals (physicians, engineers, founders, nurses, managers, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Asia), working out why the way they're being read doesn't match the work they do. I was the shy, oversensitive kid who nobody explained the rules to. Now I explain them.
That manager didn't change. But I did. And the weird part is she started treating me differently.
Physician, 38 · Canada
She'd catch something small I said and analyze what I actually meant. It was like… wait, how did I never see that?
Finance professional, 34 · Singapore
I now speak up in meetings. I delegate. I handle senior managers without the old anxiety.
Nurse, 45 · Australia
I don't have to try to act like a leader anymore. I just feel like one.
Physician, 38 · Canada
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Find out what they're seeing.
Pick a slot. Bring the situations that keep repeating. Leave with the read, in writing.
