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DR. IRIS PALMER, PHD

You're Doing Director-Level Work.
It's Time You Were Positioned Like It.

Strategic leadership development for mid-senior professionals in Pharma, Biotech, and CRO who are technically brilliant, strategically invisible, and ready to stop being the best-kept secret in their company.

IRIS LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

Programs for Professionals

For mid-senior leaders stuck in the messy middle of corporate. Masterclasses, workshops, group accelerators, and high-touch mentoring designed to make your value visible, your positioning strategic, and your next promotion inevitable.

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Complimentary

5P Masterclass Series

The gap between capability and promotion is not effort. It is positioning. This five-part masterclass series reveals why high performers stay stuck, what the system actually rewards, and the framework that changes everything. Where every leadership transformation begins.

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Masterclass Series
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Saturday Workshops

Most professionals who miss promotion are never told the real reason. Not capability. Not effort. Positioning. This half-day experience exposes the invisible patterns keeping careers stalled and installs the exact system that reverses them. One day. Permanent shift.

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Saturday Workshops
3

Group Immersive

The full Magnetic Strategic Leadership Transformation Accelerator. 24 weeks of group mentoring that dismantles the operator identity, builds strategic visibility, installs financial and political fluency, and positions leaders as the only choice in the room. For professionals ready to stop being the best-kept secret in their company.

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Group Immersive
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1:1 Intensive

Another track in The Magnetic Strategic Leadership Transformation Accelerator. Private. 12 weeks of direct mentoring built around one leader, one company, one political landscape. No group. No generic advice. Every session engineered for one outcome: the promotion that should have happened already.

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1:1 Intensive

Not sure which is right? Start with the complimentary masterclass series.
It's the best introduction to everything we teach.

ASCENDEPTH

For Organizations

Consultancy

Strategic advisory for organisations navigating leadership alignment, talent retention, and cultural transformation during change. Not off-the-shelf models.

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Keynotes & Corporate Training

High-impact speaking that shifts how leaders think, communicate, and position themselves. Framework-based. Actionable. Designed to create lasting change.

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THE METHODOLOGY

The 5P Magnetic Strategic Leadership Framework™

01

PURPOSE.

Reset your leadership identity. You cannot rise into a role you don't yet see yourself in.

02

POSITIONING.

Build strategic visibility. Stop being the best-kept secret in your company.

03

PREPARATION.

Master the business language. Learn the financial and strategic fluency hiring committees look for.

04

PROMOTION.

Navigate politics and influence. Build the political capital that turns positioning into promotion.

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PROGRESS.

Accelerate post-promotion. Build the system you will use for every transition in your career.

Is This You?

You're doing director-level work without the title or compensation to match

You've been passed over for promotion at least once. Maybe more.

You're technically excellent but strategically invisible to decision makers.

You're working 40 to 50+ hours a week and still feel unseen.

You manage teams or projects but you're not in the conversations that matter

You're ready to stop waiting for permission and start positioning yourself

You have 5 to 15+ years of experience and capability is not the problem

You're tired of watching less-qualified people advance while you hold it together

MEET IRIS

Promotions go to the
best-positioned leaders.

For 8.5 years, I was the person doing the invisible work. Holding teams together. Supporting BD conversations. Without the recognition, compensation, or title that reflected my contribution.

I wasn't failing. I was performing at a level that should have been impossible to ignore.

Then I learned what I now teach. Promotions don't go to the best executors. They go to the best-positioned leaders. That shift changed everything. I went from 8.5 years stuck to Director of Execution and Strategy. And I've spent every day since helping others make the same transition.

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Your Leadership
Ascent Starts Here

Stop waiting to be noticed.
Start positioning yourself as the leader you already are.