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Communicate Proactively

Master the art of proactive communication to stand out in your role, impress your boss, and accelerate your career growth in any industry.

Negotiating the Offer: Nail Your Criteria

Learn how to successfully negotiate your next job offer. We'll cover how to define your criteria, identify your leverage, and craft a winning negotiation strategy.

Is Now the Right Time for a Transition?

A reflective guide to evaluating personal, professional, and market factors when considering a career pivot.

Strategies to Upskill in Your Career

Learn why upskilling matters and how you can build a plan to learn new skills in a way that works for you.

Maximizing Your Compensation at Top Firms

Learn how to negotiate offers, understand total comp, and unlock hidden perks at elite companies.

Succeeding in the First 90 Days of Your Job

Hit the ground running—build trust, show impact, and set the tone for long-term success.

Amazon Interview Workbook – Full STAR Story Tracker

An organized spreadsheet for preparing Amazon interviews, linking behavioral questions to detailed STAR stories and key leadership principles.

Zoom Fatigue Is Real: 10 Tips for Virtual Presentation Mastery

Emmy-winning coach Ann Keil Dux shares top strategies to stay energized, focused, and confident on camera.

Craft Your Career Transition Story

A video to help you articulate a compelling narrative around your career shift, connecting past experiences with future goals for resumes, interviews, and MBA essays.

Pursuing Further Education: Pros & Cons

Weigh the real benefits and tradeoffs of grad school, MBAs, and more before making the leap.

Land Your Job or Study in ... France

France is not just Paris, luxury brands, and Grandes Écoles. It is Europe's second largest economy, home to 5,500 companies operating in the US alone, and one of the world's top destinations for AI investment. For non-EU graduates and young to mid-career professionals who take it seriously, France offers a career path that is both internationally prestigious and genuinely accessible. The question everyone asks first is the language. It is a fair question and this session answers it honestly: where English is enough, where French matters, and at what point in a career it becomes a real differentiator. We cover the study path and the direct job path side by side: visa options, grandes écoles versus public universities, living costs in Paris and beyond, workplace culture, and what makes a French employer say yes to an international candidate. Two real cases show how people with no European background made it work. France rewards those who understand the culture before they apply. This Thursday, we get into the details. New episodes in this series cover a different European country every Thursday.

How to Build a Resume That Gets Interviews

"The bullet point framework completely changed how I write my resume!" Writing a resume isn’t just about listing responsibilities. It’s about telling a clear story of impact. During this 45-minute resume workshop, I share practical, real-world strategies for turning everyday experience into compelling, results-driven resumes. Drawing from my experience at Google and supporting 1,300+ professionals with resume writing, I break down proven frameworks like the XYZ formula (Accomplished X by doing Y, resulting in Z) and show how to transform generic statements into powerful career narratives. This session walks through how to write stronger bullet points, avoid common resume mistakes, and follow the 3 pillars of tailoring your resume to the job description so it actually gets noticed. Attendees also see live examples of how AI tools can help rewrite experience, identify key skills from job postings, and structure resumes more strategically. This workshop is designed for students and professionals who want to present their experience with clarity, highlight measurable impact, and position themselves competitively in today’s job market. Across universities and organizations, it has become one of my most requested sessions, with many attendees saying the frameworks and examples immediately changed how they approach resume writing.

Home for Ambition #1: Staying Ahead in a Changing World [3/18/2026] (Recording)

In this first episode of Home for Ambition, we’re diving into one of the biggest questions facing ambitious people right now: what’s actually changing in the world of work, learning, and opportunity, and what should you do about it? We’ll unpack where AI is truly creating leverage, which skills are becoming more valuable, what people are wasting too much time on, and how to stay ahead as the rules keep shifting. — Home for Ambition is a show from Leland for ambitious people trying to stay ahead as work, learning, and opportunity get rewritten. Each episode tackles a few important questions shaping careers, education, AI, and the future of opportunity, then breaks down what’s changing, what’s overhyped, what matters, and what to do about it.

Your AI Resume Framework - 5 Tools to Stand out in an AI World

This guide walks you through 5 AI-powered tools designed for professionals who feel like their experience is strong but their resume isn't landing. If you've used AI to polish your resume and still aren't hearing back, this is for you. Each tool combines a thinking exercise you complete first with a precision AI prompt that executes on that thinking -- covering how to read a job description like a hiring manager, find where you disappeared from your own document, recover the specific details that make you irreplaceable, make your career trajectory feel intentional, and protect your voice after every AI pass.

What Good Looks Like - Product Managers

A clear, practical look at the skills and habits that make great PMs and Sr PMs — straight from a product leader.

Enhance Your Visibility & Build Relationships

Learn to boost your professional visibility and build meaningful relationships. We share networking strategies that will help you stand out and get ahead in your career.

Negotiating the Offer: Negotiate the Offer & Close

Learn how to close a job offer negotiation with confidence. This guide gives you the language, strategies, and mindset you need to navigate the final steps and get the offer you deserve.

Networking Strategy for Startups and Tech: Unstructured Outreach

A guide on "unstructured outreach" for startups and tech professionals, focusing on building genuine connections, leveraging online platforms, and finding mentors.

How to Pivot Your Career and Get Hired

A step-by-step guide on how to talk about a career change in your resume, interviews, and professional network.

Negotiating the Offer: Compensation Research

Learn how to research and negotiate compensation. We'll show you how to find salary data, understand market rates, and use this information to get the offer you deserve.