Leaders' Lounge presents

Promotion Isn't a Moment. It's a Plan.

APRIL 24 @ 9AM PDT | VIRTUAL

Most professionals don't start thinking about promotion until review season is already open. By then, the decision is often already made. Join Van Tran and Dipali Chakravarti for a live, honest 90-minute conversation about how promotion decisions actually happen inside organizations — and what a real advancement strategy looks like.

 

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What You'll Walk Away With

This isn't a motivation talk. It's a practical, research-grounded conversation about how advancement really works — and what you can do about it.

The Real Promotion Process

 

 

Not the version in the employee handbook. The real one — the process, the timing, and the conversations that happen long before anyone says your name out loud.

An Honest Look at What Promotion-Ready Is

 

Understand the difference between high-performers and performance-ready and where most advancement strategies begin to shift.

 

 

Real Talk, Real Strategies

 

 

Not a checklist. A framework for thinking about your promotion the way the people deciding it already are.

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About the Speakers

Van Tran

Van Tran is the Founder and CEO of Career Rising, a leadership consulting firm focused on advancement strategy, sponsorship systems, and culturally intelligent leadership development. Drawing on her background as a VP of Experience and Innovation and Global Senior Director of Digital Services, Van brings a practitioner's lens to the structural realities of who advances in organizations — and why.

A founding member of Chief, a Program Advisor for the Women in Leadership Program at the University of San Francisco's School of Management, and co-founder of multiple API leadership communities, Van has spent her career building the frameworks and systems that help leaders rise — and helping organizations build the conditions that make that possible.

Dipali Chakravarti

Dipali Chakravarti is a Global People & Talent Executive and Executive Coach with a track record of helping organizations align strategy, talent, and culture to build high-performing teams. Trusted by C-suite and senior leaders, she works at the intersection of business outcomes and human behavior — translating data and insight into measurable leadership impact.

Her coaching practice is grounded in evidence-based tools including Hogan assessments and 360° feedback, and she brings deep expertise in leadership development, talent and succession planning, and organizational design. Dipali is particularly passionate about supporting leaders through transformation, growth, and complexity — while keeping people at the center of the work.