7 signs senior leaders see you as a great doer, not a future VP.

No. 7 is why so many stay stuck.

1/ You find out about the big decisions after they are already made.

2/ You are sitting right there in the meeting. Nobody turns to you and asks what you think we should do.

3/ Your review glows about what you delivered. Then it goes vague the second it reaches whether you are ready.

4/ You walk out with a longer to-do list. The people seen as strategic walk out with more influence.

5/ When you talk, you give the whole report. When they talk, they give the headline.

6/ Your name comes up for the hard project. Never the high-profile one.

7/ You are the person everything runs through. And somehow that has become the exact reason they cannot move you up.

Count how many are yours.
Even one is worth your attention.

Here is what nobody says about this list:

Not one of these is a thinking problem.
You are already strategic. I have not met one of you who was not.

The fix is becoming visible in the four or five moments a week where it counts.

That shift, from the best doer to the obvious next VP, is the whole game between Director and VP.