Leading Women in Tech Podcast 282: Your 2026 Leadership Roadmap: Plan the Year That Moves Your Career Forward
Jan 6, 2026
Discover how to take charge of your career with a proactive leadership roadmap for 2026. Reflect on past experiences to identify what drained you and what worked. Learn the importance of defining your North Star and recognizing gaps in skills and visibility. Toni introduces a five-pillar framework to focus your efforts and emphasizes the power of a stop list to enhance your leadership capacity. Finally, she provides strategies to turn your roadmap into actionable steps for sustained progress and personal growth.
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Roadmap Transforms Reaction Into Strategy
- Without a clear leadership roadmap, the year becomes reactive and chaotic.
- With a roadmap, the year becomes transformational and intentional.
Use Reflection To Extract Career Data
- Reflect on last year to extract data, not to judge yourself.
- Ask what worked, what drained you, and what you'd do differently.
Run A Focused Leadership Audit
- Audit last year with focused questions about wins, drains, learning, and growth.
- Use honest prompts like where you waited for permission or allowed yourself to be overlooked.