Move Up, Not Out – Helping Companies Like Yours Promote From Within

A Company-Sponsored Career Advancement Program powered by: FAR → Foundation → Accomplish → Rebrand™, the exclusive executive career strategy framework of Maureen McCullough LLC.

Move Up, Not Out is a company-sponsored version of our 90-Day Executive Career Transition Program. Move Up, Not Out is designed to help employees prepare for higher-level positions within their existing organization.

Our program is built around our proprietary FAR™ framework and is customized to the employee's experience, career goals, and actual advancement opportunities within the company.

Executive Career Advancement Program Candidates

Managers, Directors, Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, and C-Suite executives who are pursuing advancement within their existing company.

Employees may be selected by management or request participation themselves, subject to company sponsorship.

Executive Career Advancement Program Benefits – Employee:

Our program begins with an evaluation of the employee's professional background, accomplishments, leadership experience, advancement goals and realistic opportunities within the company.

Always customized to the employee's needs and target position, the program includes:

  • Expert career strategy establishes a baseline by which to build a realistic target position and a clear direction for moving forward.
  • Target role research identifies experience, qualifications, responsibilities, and expectations associated with the intended position(s).
  • Executive résumé development / rewriting to accurately reflect their experience, leadership accomplishments, and qualifications for advancement.
  • LinkedIn profile optimization of the employee's professional profile to support their career direction.
  • Prepare a professional bio appropriate to the employee's level and career goals.
  • Interview preparation is crucial to help the employee discuss their qualifications, accomplishments, and readiness for greater responsibility.
  • Opportunity evaluation of potential internal positions to determine how they align with the employee's experience and goals.
  • Compensation guidance helps the employee prepare for discussions involving increased responsibility, salary, and compensation.
  • Collaborative revisions of professional materials as needed through final approval.

Executive Career Advancement Program Benefits – Employer:

  • Keep valuable employees who show potential for leadership and management.
  • Retain these employees who have been with the company, know the operations, and can be depended on to run the assets smoothly and efficiently.
  • It is difficult to find loyal, qualified, experienced help. To train newbies can be expensive, time consuming and actually cost much more due to mistakes and mishaps than to invest in current employees.
  • Why send a good employee away to a competitor when it is in your best interest to cultivate their skills and experience, and promote them from within?

Company Sponsorship

The sponsoring company agrees to fund the employee's participation and to provide relevant background about potential advancement opportunities, including positions available, requirements, nice-to-have skills, education and certification requirements.

Employees work directly with Maureen McCullough LLC throughout the 90-day period.

Progress reports will be made available to the sponsoring company if they request these updates.

Individual consulting discussions remain confidential.

Program Structure

Our program runs for 12 weeks (90 days) and includes four hours of private, one-on-one career strategy consulting and support, used flexibly throughout the program to accommodate the employee's schedule.

Participating employees are prepared through our expert guidance how to pursue internal advancement and increased leadership opportunities within the company. The employee is completely responsible for applying that guidance and managing their own performance and professional conduct.

It does not guarantee a promotion, a particular position, a salary increase, or an employment decision. All promotion and employment decisions remain with the sponsoring company.

Program Investment

$2,400 per participating employee by sponsoring company.