You are not here because you lack confidence. You are not here because you haven't performed. You are here because something in the distance between what you have built and how it is currently seen on paper — and in rooms — isn't closing the way it should. That gap has a name. And it has a different kind of solution than the ones you have already tried.
Learn about the ProFile™In 2011, before he held a global role at Microsoft, before the industry conversation about women in technology existed in any serious form, Dr. Alford completed a doctoral dissertation documenting the lived experience of women doing leadership work without the recognition that work warranted. The research shaped the career. Not the other way around.
For thirty years he has held organizational and academic roles at the same time, by design — as a global technology executive, as a professor whose graduate students have included the HR directors and VP-level leaders whose decisions affect the professionals he serves, and as a researcher who has never stopped asking the same question.
He is President and CEO of TheDrCed Leadership Development LLC and XylaWorks, Inc. Both are built on the same foundation.
Most of the women who write to Dr. Alford haven't told anyone they're here. That's not hesitation — that's how you operate at your level. When you're ready, one email is all it takes. He reads every one himself.
DrAlford@thedrced.comA direct engagement with Dr. Alford — his research, his framework, and his perspective applied to your record and your situation. One at a time.
Learn about the ProFile™ →The same research and three-dimensional framework, accessible through an AI-powered platform. If the direct engagement isn't where you are right now, Dr. Alford will point you here himself.
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