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 You're capable, proven, and still not valued or promoted.Â
That ends here.
The Executive Edge Accelerator
A three-phase 90-day coaching program for leaders who are done being the most qualified person in the room yet still don't get the seat, the budget, or the call.
A cohort begins May 1st. Edge Gap calls are underway. If you've been waiting for the right moment to close the gap between your ability and how you are perceived so you are the must-have — this is it.
30 minutes. No pitch. A diagnostic conversation about your specific gap.
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The Problem
The leaders who get promoted aren't always the most capable.
You know this. You've watched it happen. Someone with a thinner track record got the role, was called into the meeting, had their idea taken seriously — while you sat idle.
- This isn't about competence. You have that.
- It's about the gap between what you can do and how you are actually experienced by the people who decide what happens next in your career.
- That gap has a name.
The Edge Gap — the distance between a leader's capability and the authority and influence they command in the room. Closing it is a sequence.
Here's what the Edge Gap looks like in practice:
- You're consulted after decisions are made, not during.
- Your recommendations get "considered" and then quietly shelved.
- A junior colleague's version of your idea moves forward.
- You're told you're "not quite ready" without explaining what 'ready' looks like.
- You prepare for a promotion that stalls — while someone else is fast-tracked.
Presence isn't the problem. Sequence is...
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You've already tried to solve this. Workshops, books, a mentor who told you to "speak up more," a 360 review that told you flaws but not how to fix it.
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None of it stuck because none of it was sequenced.
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You cannot project influence before you have clarity.
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You cannot build steadiness before you have the right picture of what's actually happening.
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And you cannot close the Edge Gap by working on output before you've diagnosed the gap itself.
INTRODUCING
The Executive Edge Accelerator
The 90-day Accelerator works in a mandatory sequence for a reason. Skip any phase and you're building on sand.
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Three phases. One sequence.Â
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Sightline™ → SteadyState™ → InfluencePoint™Â
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Each phase of the Accelerator builds on the last. You don't choose where to start — you start where the work starts. That's what makes it work.
What's Included In The Accelerator...
Pillar 1 - Sightline™
See the Gap with Precision
Uncover what others see, what it's actually costing you, and the greatness waiting to emerge.
Most leaders assume they know how they're perceived. They're wrong — or partially right in ways that are more dangerous than being fully wrong. Sightline™ surfaces:Â
- Sightline™ uncovers the precise disconnect between your capability and your impact using a diagnostic that goes beyond surface feedback to map what's actually happening in the rooms that matter.
- Deliverable: Edge Gap Profile — your personalized map of where perception breaks from capability.
Pillar 2 - SteadyState™
Lead from an Unshakeable Core
Manage your reactions in real time to hold what you've built and contribute from a position of authority.
Visibility under pressure is where leaders either establish authority or erode it.Â
- SteadyState™ builds the internal infrastructure.
- Cognitive, physical, behavioral practices that are personalized.
- You stay sharp, clear, and commanding when the stakes are highest. Because the room takes its cues from you before you say a word.
- Deliverable: Presence Protocol — your personal operating system for high-stakes moments.
Pillar 3 - InfluencePoint™
Strategize the People and Decisions that Move Your Career
Create precise steps necessary and involve the people necessary to advance what and where you want.
Influence at the senior level is not charisma. Â
- InfluencePoint™ is architecture.
- It shows you exactly who is making decisions about your career and future
- How to position yourself in those conversations
- How to build the kind of stakeholder trust that creates opportunities before they are posted.
Personal and Group CoachingÂ
Three Personal 1:1 Coaching Sessions - These session are move through the the same three Pillars with direct, personalized coaching at every step. Everything is built around your specific context, your specific stakeholders, your specific gap.
The Group Accelerator brings you into a small cohort of leaders over 90 days working through the same sequence at the same time. The peer dynamic is part of the work — you'll see your gap more clearly in a room with people who understand exactly what you're up against. Cohort size is intentionally limited to protect the quality of the work.
- Personal Coaching Deliverable:Â Executive Edge Playbook
A fully personalized document integrating all four phase deliverables into a single, context-specific action plan built around your organization, your stakeholders, and your next move.
- Group Coaching Deliverable: Peer Edge Map
A structured picture of how your cohort peers experience your leadership — a perspective your organization can't give you, from people who understand the territory.
This Accelerator Is For You If...
- You are done feeling irrelevant.
- You've been passed over for promotion.
- You want to get another job but the economy has you freezing in place.
- Being the hard worker is now working against you. You're taken for granted.
- You got a mediocre raise when you deserve more.
- You feel like you're never going to get promoted. You've reached a plateau.
- You can't figure out what to do to improve how people see you.
My mission is to help you.
I'm Mary Lee Gannon
Most would describe me as a 19+ year CEO running orgaizations worth up to $37 million within companies with up to 100,000 employees, mother, wife, and executive coach. But in reality, I am so much more than that. And so are you.
I understand and have maneuvered bureaucracy, personal agendas, cynicism, posturing, misogyny, doubt, and a lot more.
My personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old who endured a divorce that took my children and me from the country club life to public assistance from where I harnessed my signature strengths, addressed anxiety, and re-invented my life to support my family.
You could say I'm a welfare mom. Most people say I am a "must have," highly effective, care about people, am fun, and love to laugh. I know how to get the right stuff done and so will you.
I've earned the International Coach Federation Coach Certification (ACC), the Professional Coach Certification from Duquesne University (PC), the Certified Association Executive Certification from the American Society of Association Executives (CAE).
I'm an alumnus of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices Program and the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference.
I am a scholarship recipient of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership created at Google, a trainer in Crucial Conversations, and a member of Pittsburgh Coaches Association. I am the author of two books: Reinvent You – From Welfare to CEO and Starting Over.Â
My clients include lpeople from Adobe, Google, Ford Motor, Johnson & Johnsons, Amazon, The Air Force, PayPal, The Pittsburgh Steelers, and many other organizations in the US and abroad.
I've walked the talk. And I will walk you into what you deserve.
"I highly recommend her program to anyone looking to enhance their executive presence and the value it brings to themselves and their interactions with others."
- Gaby Pfeifer, PhD,
CPsychol, FHEA
Lecturer in Psychology
University of Southampton
England
"I was able to successfully change careers and am happy professionally for the first time in my life."
- Adam Sellers
Detection and Investigation Staff Manager
PNC Bank
"When I first contacted Mary Lee I had reached a point of despair in my job, and had hit a plateau in my career. I now see the possibility and 'big blue sky', and you can too. Invest in yourself...you are worth it!."
-Â Ginger Fritz
Vice President
Total Rewards & HR Shared Services
Axia Women's HealthÂ
GET STARTED TODAY!
The Executive Edge Accelerator -Â May 1st Start Date
- Early Access Pricing (Will be $4,997 after Early Access)
- Propietary framework:Â
- Sightline™ → SteadyState™ → InfluencePoint™
- A comprehensive Intake Analysis. Mary Lee will review this on her time before the first call.
- Immediate access to the first Pillar section of the program. New material each month.
- 3 one-hour private Edge Sessions - Executive Coaching Calls with Mary Lee
- Group coaching calls every week that are recorded and in your library.
- Speech cadence analysis
- EARLY ACCESS BONUS:Â Ability to email Mary Lee as often as necessary with responses within one business day - Your personal coach on call for you
- EARLY ACCESS BONUS:Â Flow-on-the-Go Guide Planner for the Program mailed to you.