Your Executive Readiness Starts Here

Step one to joining the More Millennial Executives coaching program: a full assessment of your blind spots, facilitation strengths, and management readiness.

The 7 Blind Spot Executive Readiness Diagnostic

Uncover the hidden patterns that influence how decision-makers see you and accelerate your path to executive leadership.

  • Your 7 Blind Spots Profile

    Your diagnostic begins by mapping your blind spot profile across the seven most common executive derailers for millennial leaders. You’ll see which blind spot is most dominant, how others show up in your leadership, and where these patterns may be signaling hesitation to senior decision-makers. This profile provides the foundation for strengthening your presence and impact.

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  • Your Facilitator Identity

    Great executives aren’t just managers—they are facilitators of influence, alignment, and collaboration. The diagnostic highlights how you naturally show up in conversations, decision-making, and cross-functional dynamics. You’ll learn where your facilitation identity accelerates trust and sponsorship—and where blind spots may be causing friction, overextension, or missed opportunities to lead from the center.

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  • Your Management & Succession Readiness

    This section reveals where your management approach needs enhancement and evaluates your readiness to step into true executive succession. It not only measures how effectively you’re leading your team today, but also whether you are prepared to name, develop, and elevate a successor to take your current role once you’re promoted. Demonstrating both strong management capability and succession planning is a key marker of executive-level readiness.

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Why It Matters

Executives are chosen for more than performance - they’re chosen for presence, readiness and their ability to develop others. Without clarity, many millennial leaders miss promotions not because of capability, but because of blind spots.

Millennials are the largest generation in the workforce, yet only a small fraction are advancing into executive leadership.

How It Fits Into the Coaching Program

  • We start with a one-on-one conversation where we uncover your career goals and promotion timeline. This call is about alignment — are you ready for the leap to executive leadership, and is this program the right fit for you?

  • Next, you’ll complete the full diagnostic — a research-backed assessment that uncovers the hidden habits shaping your leadership path. You’ll see where your blind spots are, how they overlap, and how your facilitation and management skills are perceived.

    Most leaders don’t see what’s holding them back. You will. And once you see it, you can start to shift it.

  • If we move forward together, your diagnostic becomes the roadmap for your first 90 days inside the More Millennial Executives coaching program. From here, we work toward building:

    • Executive Endurance → sustainable energy, clarity, and presence so you can perform at the executive level without burning out.

    • Strategic Visibility → the influence and sponsorship needed to be seen by decision-makers.

    • Leadership Confidence → the ability to lead critical conversations and manage others with authority and authenticity.

Why Work With Dr. Katie

For more than 14 years, I’ve studied one question: Why do so many talented, purpose-driven millennials get overlooked for executive leadership?

I hold a PhD in Organizational Psychology and published my dissertation on the millennial employee experience back in 2017 — long before the “future of work” conversation became mainstream.

I developed the Seven Blind Spots framework, a research-backed model that has helped hundreds of leaders uncover what’s holding them back and reposition themselves for promotion.

I’ve worked as a national-level leader on millennial workforce strategy, advising corporations and organizations on how to harness millennial talent for higher performance and retention.

I am the founder of Better Work Experience, Inc., and the creator of the More Millennial Executives coaching program — built to equip the next generation of leaders to rise without losing themselves.

I host The Dr. Katie Show, a podcast dedicated to millennial leadership, and my forthcoming book, Unmasking the Seven Blind Spots, expands this mission even further.

But beyond credentials, here’s why this matters:

👉 I’ve been there too. I fell victim to these blind spots myself and missed a promotion early in my career. That experience fueled my research — and today, my work is about ensuring other millennial leaders don’t make the same mistakes.

When you step into the Executive Readiness Diagnostic, you’re not just taking another assessment. You’re stepping into a framework tested by research, validated in the real world, and guided by someone who’s walked this path alongside you.

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Ready to Step Into Executive Leadership?

You’ve seen your dominant blind spot. Now it’s time to uncover the full picture — and use it to accelerate your path to the executive track.

The Executive Readiness Diagnostic is the first step inside the More Millennial Executives coaching program. It gives you clarity on what decision-makers see, where you’re strongest, and where hidden habits may be holding you back.

👉 If you’re serious about earning your next promotion and building a sustainable executive career, let’s begin.

Led by Dr. Katie — PhD, organizational psychologist, corporate consultant, and national millennial workforce strategist with 14+ years of research.