Career Connections

Level Up: Become a Leader Before Landing the Title

Thursday, 23 July 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The skills that make you good at your job—attention to detail, technical execution, and individual output—aren’t the only things that position you to become a first-level manager. Find out how to cultivate enterprise-level stewardship to help you move from task-oriented contributor to leader.

Key Takeaways

  1. The Mindset Shift: Understand why individual excellence can become a bottleneck and how to adopt a manager’s mindset that is centered on collective impact.
  2. Building Strategic Visibility: Learn to curate a professional image that shifts from functional expert to strategic leader, ensuring your personal brand aligns with the next level of responsibility.
  3. Activating Advocacy: Master techniques for exposure by building an advocacy loop that ensures your impact is visible to high-level decision makers.

Agenda

12 p.m. Introduction
12:05 p.m. Presentation
12:45 p.m. Q&A
1 p.m. Event concludes

Speaker

Cindy Chiang Halvorsen
Co-Founder & Partner
Melting Robot

Cindy Chiang Halvorsen is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a seasoned architect of human and commercial potential with 25 years of experience at Google, P&G, Kraft, and Mars Wrigley. She is a Kellogg MBA and the founder of two distinct businesses: Carving Dragons (executive coaching) and Melting Robot (a B2B revenue consulting and advisory firm). Cindy bridges the gap between high-performance brand marketing and the deep internal shifts required for enterprise leadership. She empowers marketers to expand their impact by moving beyond technical execution to master the art of leverage. Cindy helps leaders design operating rhythms that scale impact through strategic visibility and collective power.

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This is an online event via Zoom. Meeting login will be emailed to registrants 2 days, 2 hours, and, finally, 10 minutes before the event.

Registration Fees

  • AMA Chicago members: free
  • Guests: $10
  • Full-time students: free

 

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