The Real Reason Your Career Plateaus, and What to Do About It | with Giuseppe Stigliano

**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