Limited Capacity Deep Dives
Wed • Sep 16 • 1:30pm – 3:00pm ET • Room 160
How to Promote Without Breaking Your Best People
Your best individual contributors aren’t automatically your best future leaders. Yet organizations continue to promote subject matter experts based on what made them successful in their current roles, then expect them to lead people without developing the skills leadership requires. As the way we work evolves, our approach to building leaders must evolve with it. In this session, you'll explore a practical framework for identifying leadership potential, preparing subject matter experts to lead, and building confident managers who help people and the business thrive.
Session Speakers:
- Naeemah Elias
Speaker & Founder @ Elias Presence Ventures, LLC
Naeemah Elias is a leadership strategist, TEDx speaker, and founder of Elias Presence Ventures. A Harvard psychology graduate and former managing director at State Street, she spent more than a decade building teams and scaling leadership systems inside complex, high-performance organizations. Blending communication st…

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