You're already performing at the next level.
It's time your title, your salary, and your organisation caught up. Watch the video below.
Does any of this sound familiar?
The quiet frustration of being overlooked, despite consistently delivering.
It isn't. And that's exactly what this programme is built to fix.
Apply For Your Promotion Readiness CallThe real reason high-performers don't get promoted
By the time your name comes up in that room, the conversation is already over. The decision has already formed, quietly, over months, through a hundred small moments you didn't know were being evaluated.
Promotions at this level don't go to the best performers. They go to the best-positioned leaders. The ones who've been visible to the right people, speaking the right language, building the right relationships, long before the window officially opens.
That's not a character flaw. It's a gap in what you were taught. And it is completely fixable.
The 5P Magnetic Strategic Leadership Framework was built specifically for this — for the high-performers who keep getting passed over not because of what they do, but because of what the right people never get to see.
This programme vs everything else you've tried
What they get from the 5P Magnetic Strategic Leadership vs generic coaching programmes.
5P Magnetic Strategic Leadership
Built from the inside of corporate, by someone who's navigated every promotion dynamic.
- Built From15 years of lived global corporate experience
- Designed ForMid-senior professionals ready for AD or Director level
- ApproachApplied inside your actual organisation, with your real stakeholders
- Promotion FocusDirectly targets the 5 questions promotions committees actually ask
- Political NavigationTeaches corporate political capital — the real promotion currency
- The MentorA former corporate director who sat in promotion decision rooms
- AccessHigh-touch 1:1 or cohort mentoring with real-time support
- TimelineDesigned to move you within 6 to 9 months
- The ResultA promotion case so strong the answer feels inevitable
Generic Coaching Programmes
Broad frameworks and theory, not built for the specific promotion window you're facing.
- Built FromCoaching methodology and classroom theory
- Designed ForAnyone, at any level, in any industry
- ApproachGeneric frameworks you're left to apply alone
- Promotion FocusGeneral confidence and mindset work
- Political NavigationRarely addressed, consistently oversimplified
- The MentorCoaches who study corporate from the outside
- AccessPre-recorded content, group calls, limited access
- TimelineOpen-ended, no defined outcome
- The ResultGeneral growth and a sense of clarity
The 5P Magnetic
Strategic Leadership Framework
Five pillars. Each one builds on the last. Skip one and the rest collapses.
Purpose
Before tactics, before strategy, there is identity. If you still see yourself as the best executor in the room, everyone else will too. This is where we reset that, so everything you do from this point forward signals the level you're moving into, before you're officially there.
Positioning
Strategic visibility to the specific people who control your career. Not self-promotion. A deliberate, consistent rhythm of presence that makes your value impossible to ignore by the decision-makers who need to see it.
Preparation
The language of the leadership table. Financial fluency. Business impact framing. The ability to communicate your work in terms that executives respond to and hiring committees remember. This is the gap most high-performers don't know they have until it costs them another cycle.
Promotion
Political capital. The real currency of corporate promotion. Who your sponsors are, how decisions actually form, and the unwritten rules everyone at the top already knows and nobody at your level has been taught. We build your promotion case until it's airtight.
Progress
What happens after the promotion. Your first 90 days in the new role determine your next promotion. This is a system for your entire career, not a one-time fix.
Two ways to work together
Both begin with a strategy call. That conversation determines which pathway fits your situation.
1:1 Private Mentoring
Private mentoring built entirely around you. Your organisation. Your political landscape. Your specific stakeholders. Direct access to Iris. Real-time guidance on situations as they unfold. For leaders who want accelerated, personalised transformation and are ready to move now.
Immersive Programme
The full 5P programme delivered over 24 weeks alongside a cohort of peers navigating the same transition. Same curriculum. Same transformation. More space to integrate deeply without overwhelm. Ideal for leaders carrying complex portfolios who need room to apply and refine.
About Dr. Iris Palmer, PhD
Dr. Iris Palmer, PhD spent 15 years in global corporate leadership, was a direct line manager of 22+ direct reports, managing and leading up to 100-120 multifunctional teams across multiple high-stake global projects in top 10 global corporations in Pharma, Biotech, and CRO.
She has sat in the rooms where promotion decisions are made. She has watched which names get called and understood exactly why. And she spent 8.5 years being the most capable, yet invisible to the right decision makers in her own organisation before she decoded the system that changed everything.
How to apply
Iris reads every application personally before getting on a call. The more honest you are, the more useful the conversation will be.
Fill Out The Application
A short form. Takes about three minutes. Be honest — every application is read personally.
Book Your Strategy Call
Access Iris's calendar directly and book a 30 to 45-minute strategy conversation.
Show Up Ready
Talk about where you are, what's blocked you, and where you want to go. Iris comes prepared.
Know By The End
If it's a fit, you'll know by the end of the call. If it isn't, you'll leave with the most useful direction Iris can give you.
One promotion window
just closed.
The next is already forming.
One promotion
window just closed.
The next is
already forming.
The leaders whose names will be called are building their case right now. Limited spaces. High-touch. High-result.