🧑‍💻How to Set Yourself Up for Promotion (Before Promotion Review Season)

​Getting promoted isn't just about working hard. It's about understanding how promotion decisions are actually made, and positioning yourself as the obvious choice before review season even begins. 

In this session, Federica De Cillis pulls back the curtain on what really happens in calibration meetings, what managers need to advocate for you, and how to build a compelling case for your next level. You'll learn what companies are truly evaluating, how to expand your scope strategically, and why visibility isn't self-promotion. It's about making your impact legible.

​You'll walk away with:

​✅ A behind-the-scenes look at how promotion decisions are made, from calibration meetings to budget constraints.
✅ The 5 key variables that influence whether you get promoted and how to work each one in your favour.
✅ How to build your Promotion Portfolio: tracking impact, expanding scope, and gathering evidence for the next level.
✅ The exact questions to ask your manager to turn them into your promotion sponsor.
✅ Practical strategies to increase your visibility across the organisation without it feeling like self-promotion.

​👤 About the speaker:

​Federica De Cillis is a strategic People leader with over a decade of experience at Meta, Stripe, Airwallex, and Builder.ai. She's worked across startups, scale-ups, and FAANG, giving her unique insight into how interviews, culture, and expectations shift at every stage of growth. Today, as founder of Arc Studio, she helps leaders build high-performing cultures and navigate the realities of fast-changing organisations.