Influence Matters: Tools for Managing Up, Across, and Down

Many mid-career professionals find themselves carrying significant responsibility—often without clear authority, sufficient support or access to best practices or training.

In today's fast-changing impact-focused workplaces, influence is no longer about hierarchy. It's about clarify, trust, relational intelligence and the ability to reduce friction while advancing meaningful work.

However, influence does not happen in a vacuum. It is shaped by identity, role, history and systems of power and privilege. Join career coach Mollie Stephens (pictured) for a virtual session that acknowledges those dynamics and offers grounded tools for navigating them with clarity, integrity and courage.

In this session, you will:
● Identify where influence feels stuck, draining or unclear in their current role

● Strengthen clarity and alignment with teams and stakeholders

● Navigate influence across differences in identity, authority and access

● Apply simple tools to manage across peers without formal authority

● Commit to one concrete step that increases their impact this week