Leaders underestimate how much presentation skill shapes career mobility

Communication and Career Mobility: making your thinking visible in high-stakes moments

Employees are expected to influence, present, interview, and progress through organisations with very little direct training in how to communicate their value. Many leaders assume career growth depends mainly on competence, but capable people can be overlooked when they cannot make their thinking visible in high-stakes conversations. Elizabeth’s work sits at the overlap of leadership, influence, presentations, and career coaching, which shows how often the same communication habits determine whether someone is heard, trusted, or promoted. This is a useful episode for leadership and workplace audiences who want to develop people beyond technical ability.

About Liz Harris

Liz Harris, podcast guest

Interview and Career Performance Coach

20+ Years coaching experienceHundreds Interview candidates coachedInternational Leadership workshops delivered worldwideInterview coach Mid-to-senior professionals

Liz Harris is an interview performance coach, learning and development specialist, and founder of Alchemy Training, helping mid-to-senior level professionals turn high-stakes career opportunities into confident, credible performances.

Her approach grew from an unexpected insight that changed the direction of her work: every interview is a presentation, and every presentation is an interview. After years of delivering leadership, influencing and presentation skills workshops around the world, Liz was asked to help two young women who were struggling to convert applications into job offers. Both went on to secure strong roles, and Liz realised she could use decades of presentation expertise to solve one of the most stressful and consequential moments in a person’s career.

Since then, she has coached hundreds of candidates through simulated interviews, competency-based questions, difficult conversations, presentations and the psychological pressure that comes with being judged in a competitive hiring process. Her strength lies in spotting what an interviewer is likely to probe, identifying where a candidate’s story is unclear, and helping them reshape strong experience into answers that land with clarity and confidence.

Liz is particularly passionate about helping people prepare before opportunity arrives.

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