

How to: Tell If Something's Off in Your Career — Or If You're Just in a Hard Season
About the Session:
You're great at your job. You've got good feedback, strong performance reviews, and a career progression that looks exactly right on paper. And yet something feels off. There's an alarm ringing in the back of your head that you can't quite ignore.
In this session, we'll talk about what career misalignment actually looks like in high achievers - why it's so easy to miss, why we're wired to push through it, and how to start distinguishing between a hard season and a true signal that something needs to change. We'll work through a framework for reading your own internal data the same way you'd read any other performance indicator.
This isn't about blowing up your career. It's about getting honest with yourself before the alarm becomes a crisis.
Attendees will leave with: A practical framework for identifying whether what they're feeling is noise or signal - and the specific questions to ask themselves next.
About the Host:
Kacie Bartimus is a Head of Talent with over 10 years' experience inside corporate HR systems. As a talent leader and HR business partner, Kacie has been in the rooms where careers were discussed, evaluated, and decided. She knows what the system sees. And she's had a front-row seat to what happens when high-achieving women optimize for performance at the expense of fit.
Recently, Kacie realized she'd been ignoring her own alarm for a long time. Now she's in the middle of her own wake-up, building Ring True Coaching while still inside the corporate talent system.