What Members Are Navigating
"I'm at the table watching everyone else speak and I want to ask the questions they do — but I just don't have them."
Current member — Director
"I deserved the promotion. They gave it to someone with more experience. I have to decide what to do next."
Current member — Senior Director
"I can do any of the jobs I apply for. But they look past me because of my age."
Current member — Director
What the Must-Have Is
Not another leadership program.
Twice a month, you get coached by someone who has been in the room you're trying to get into.
- Most professionals in Corporate America are navigating in a feedback vacuum. Too smart for generic advice. Can't be fully honest upward. No trusted place to process what's actually happening.
- What's possible on the other side: a room where your judgment is sought before you've even spoken. Where the air changes slightly when you walk in.
What Members Are Saying About The Must-Have Community
- "Before joining, I was replaying conversations, doubting myself, and second-guessing my instincts. Now I move with more ease, leading from self-trust." Julie Kuhns — Member
- "Honestly, before this community, I wasn’t fully tapped into my own strengths. I hadn’t really taken the time to get clear on my goals or my value proposition. I also think I tolerated too much ambiguity instead of clearly communicating expectations. Being part of this community helped me lean into my strengths, trust myself more, and become more direct and intentional with my team. " Natalie Myrmyr — Member, Director, Provider Network, Sutter Health
What you get every month
Everything you need to close the distance between where you are and where you belong.
Two Live Group Coaching Calls
Real coaching on your real situation, twice a month, with a coach who has run $37M organizations and 100,000-employee environments.
The Must-Have Community
A private community where you can post questions and expect a direct, timely response from Mary Lee and your peers. Not a ghost town.
New Coaching Material Every 30 Days
Frameworks and strategies built specifically for professionals navigating Corporate America.
Printable Must-Have Personal Workbooks
Structured tools that turn what you learn on the calls into concrete next steps in your specific situation.
Who this is for
For the professional who is capable, and tired of being overlooked.
- You're qualified for the next level — and watching less capable people get there first
- You're in the room but not leading it — and you want to understand exactly why
- You're navigating a transition — a boss leaving, a restructure, a job search — and you need real guidance
- You've tried the programs and the courses — and the needle hasn't moved enough
- You're exhausted from managing how you come across — and want to walk in as yourself and have that be enough
- You want your best version to be the default, not the exception
What's on the other side
You're not here to survive Corporate America. You're here to lead it.
- The meeting where your judgment is sought before you've even spoken. Where the air changes slightly when you walk in.
- Walking in steady — not braced, not performing, not managing how you're coming across. Feet on the floor. Thoughts available. Yourself.
- The version of yourself that shows up on your strongest days becoming the one that shows up every day.
- And a life that doesn't require you to choose between being excellent at work and being present everywhere else. That's what becoming the Must-Have actually feels like.
- What becoming the Must-Have looks like
- "She learned how to position herself as the Must-Have. She got the job."
- One of our members came in knowing she was qualified — and frustrated that organizations were looking past her. Through the coaching calls and the framework inside The Must-Have, she learned to close the distance between her capability and how she was being experienced.
- She repositioned herself as the Must-Have — the person no organization could afford to overlook. She got the job.
Mary Lee Gannon, ACC, CAE
Executive Coach · Former C-Suite Leader of a $37M Company
Mary Lee has led organizations with $37M in budget and teams spanning 100,000 employees. She built The Must-Have on one observable truth: capable professionals in Corporate America get passed over not because they lack capability — but because of an identifiable gap between their capability and how it's experienced.
She has much experience dealing with bureaucracy, personal agendas, posturing, cynicism, misogyny, stalling, command and control leadership and much more.
She has 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).
She is 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.
Join The Must-Have
Stop watching.
Start leading the room.
$97/month. Two coaching calls/mos. Real navigation. Cancel anytime.
What's on the other side isn't a title. It's the meeting where your judgment is sought before you've even spoken. It's walking in steady — not braced, not performing. It's the version of yourself that shows up on your strongest days becoming the one that shows up every day. It's what gets valued, hired, promoted, and held closely.
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Top features
- Immediate access to the Radiant You Plan and Modules
- Access to new material every 30 days
- Access to 2 monthly group coaching calls - Submit questions anonymously ahead of time or just raise your hand and get coached
- Access to printable Radiant You Workbooks
- Membership in The Meadow Community Group - similar to a Facebook group - where you can post questions and comments and expect a timely reply from Mary Lee and other members
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- Immediate access to The Must-Have Plan and Modules
- Access to new material every 30 days
- Access to 2 monthly group coaching calls - Submit questions anonymously ahead of time or just raise your hand and get coached
- Access to Radiant You printable Workbooks
- Membership in The Must-Have Community Group - similar to a Facebook group - where you can post questions and comments and expect a timely reply from Mary Lee and other members
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