THE $200K+ INTERVIEW | A FREE 3-DAY LIVE WORKSHOP

You're not losing the offer because of your experience.

You're losing it because of how you're articulating your experience. 

Three live sessions on building the Power Stories that decide the offer.

  • 3 Free Live Sessions
  • September 15th–17th, 2026
  • 12:00–1:00 PM EST
  • Live on Zoom

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Taught by former national news anchor Priya Sam. Doubled her own salary at Slack and Salesforce. Now her clients land $200K+ offers after months of final-round rejections.

So what are they actually deciding?


The rejections already told you it wasn't your experience. Some version of:
"You lack executive presence," "the panel was split," or "this wasn't a reflection of your experience or your thinking."

And then they hired someone else.

At $200K+, they're not evaluating whether you can execute.
They're deciding whether they trust you to lead.

Sound familiar?

  • You've been at the same company for years and the promotions came easily. Now you're stuck, and someone has told you that you lack "executive presence."
  • You're interviewing after years of not having to. And the way you talk about yourself hasn't kept up with what you've actually done.
  • You’re getting interviews for $200K+ roles and reaching mid to late rounds but not getting the offer.

And here's how it shows up in the room:

  • You default to "we" even when you led the strategy. You share credit beautifully, and you erase yourself doing it.
  • You soften your impact without noticing. "I just helped with." "It was nothing, really." "I was lucky to."
  • You end strong answers with validation-seeking "does that make sense?" or “I hope I answered your question?” You're looking for alignment. It lands as uncertainty.
  • You think in patterns and systems, but your language stays in task mode. "I coordinated." "I supported." "I worked on." You're leading, and you sound like you're assisting.

You learned the right things.
But the rules change at $200K..

On paper, you read senior, strategic, ready.

Out loud, you sound junior, task-oriented, unsure.

The language that got you your first six-figure role is the language that's losing you this one.

"Collaborative." "Adaptable." "Detail-oriented." "A strong communicator."

  • Those words worked.
  • They got you promoted.
  • They were the right answer for years.

But every one of them describes someone who executes well. And in a $200K+ room, nobody is trying to work out whether you can execute; your resume settled that before you walked in.

  • They're working out how you think and operate.
  • How you make decisions  when conditions are ambiguous.
  • What changes because you're the one in the room.
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"Executive presence" is what they call it when they turn you down.

Nobody tells you what it means. Nobody tells you how to fix it.

So here's what it actually is.

It isn't a personality problem. It isn't a confidence problem. You don't need to be louder, more aggressive, or anything other than who you already are.

It's the Articulation Gap: the distance between the level you're operating at and how clearly you're communicating it in the rooms where the decision gets made.

And here's the part almost nobody realizes: your story has a different job in every round.

  • In the recruiter screen, it has to prove you clear the bar — fast, and against the requirements.
  • With the hiring manager, it has to prove you're already operating at the level.
  • In the final round, it has to make a room full of people picture you leading.

What You'll Learn During This 3-Day Workshop...

Session 1: The First Impression Formula

Tuesday, September 15th | 12:00–1:00 PM EST

The one question in the interview where you choose what they hear first, and the one most $200K+ candidates miss the mark on by answering with a walk through their resume.

You'll learn what the expectations are when the salaries hit $200K, and the three things that worked at $100K and now eliminate you from contention. Then we'll build your core themes: two elevated positioning phrases that capture how you actually operate. And you'll get the framework that turns them into an answer a panel leans into.

You'll walk away with: your core themes, and your new signature answer to "tell me about yourself" built for a $200K+ panel.

Session 2: The Power Story Playbook

Wednesday, September 16th | 12:00–1:00 PM EST

"What's your leadership style?" "What's your biggest strength?" "What's your biggest weakness?"

At $100K these were warm-ups. At $200K+ they're the test, because at this level they've stopped checking whether you can do the job and started evaluating your ownership and judgment.

You'll learn the CAPE framework and use it on a real question, live, with a before-and-after so you can hear exactly what needs to change. 

You'll walk away with: a finished Power Story you built in the session, and the method to build the rest.

Session 3: The Leadership Language Lab

Thursday, September 17th | 12:00–1:00 PM EST

Fix the habits that make experienced women sound junior — the ones you can't hear yourself doing.

You'll learn the "we plus I" formula that keeps your collaborative language and adds the ownership that proves you led. You'll get the exact swaps for the minimizing phrases quietly shrinking your authority, and for the validation-seeking endings that give away your credibility in the last five seconds of a strong answer. You'll learn to describe scope, systems, decisions and stakeholder impact at the level you actually operate at, plus bias-safe advocacy lines for owning your wins without worrying about bragging.

You'll walk away with: leadership language swaps you can use in your next interview, and answers that finally sound as experienced as you are.

I'M READY TO WIN THE FINAL ROUND

You're not losing the $200K+ offer because of your experience.
You're losing it because of how you're telling the story of your leadership and that's fixable with Power Stories.

By The End Of This Workshop, You'll Be Able To:

Answer "tell me about yourself" in a way that makes a hiring panel lean in 
and see someone already operating at the level they're hiring for

Pull from a bank of Power Stories tailored for $200K+ roles, so whatever they ask, you have a story that proves you've led at this level

Replace the hedging and minimizing language that makes experienced women sound junior, and finally sound like the authority those rooms are listening for

Answer "what's your leadership style" and "what's your biggest weakness" in a way that shows how you lead, not just what you've done

What happens when the story changes. 

$200K+ — Director of Compensation

Twenty years in healthcare compensation. Already doing the Director role on an interim basis, and still one of three finalists in front of a panel that included her own CFO. Her recruiter had told her: "You clearly have it, but I had to ask follow-up questions to pull it out of you. You need to be able to tell that story on your own." She got the offer about a month after our first session, chosen over two strong candidates.

$220K — Solution Engineer

Fifteen years in tech. Five months of interviewing, multiple final rounds, zero offers. The feedback from one hiring manager was direct: "Your experience is strong, but you're not clear on your value." Seven weeks after we started working together, she had the offer.

$250K — Director of Customer Success

Laid off from a $230K role and losing repeatedly in the late rounds. Round four was a presentation. She had a $250K offer two hours later — before they'd finished interviewing the other candidates. Nothing about her experience had changed but everything about how she articulated it did.

Is this you? 

This is for you if:

  • You have 10+ years of experience and you're interviewing for roles at $200K+, in leadership or as a senior IC
  • You're reaching round two, round three or final panels/presentations — and not getting the offer
  • Your resume is working. Your interviews are where it's breaking down.
  • You've been told some version of "you lack executive presence," "not quite the right fit," or "it was close" — and nobody explained what that meant

This isn't for you if:

  • You're not getting interviews yet. That's a positioning problem upstream of this one, and this workshop won't solve it.
  • You're targeting your first six-figure role
  • You want to work on communication in general, with no live process and no deadline
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Hi, I'm Priya

Story Architect & Strategic Communication Coach

I went from a local newsroom to national television in less than five years, and it taught me this: the story you tell decides what people believe about you.

When I left TV for tech, I had no technical background. Nothing on my resume said I could do the job. But I knew how to use stories to translate my experience from the newsroom to the boardroom, and that's what landed it. Then I leaned harder into storytelling to advocate for myself, and doubled my salary in under two years at Slack and Salesforce.

Now I help women close the Articulation Gap using Power Stories, so the panel in the final round doesn't just see the best candidate on paper. They see the one they need. I've been hired for every role I've ever interviewed for — not because my resume was strongest, but because I knew how to tell the story they needed to hear. And now I'm teaching you exactly how to do that, too.

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Frequently Asked Questions.

You've heard one of these. You're here for the other.

"We went with another candidate…"
"We can't wait to have you on the team!"

The difference is your Power Story.

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