INVISIBLE TO UNMISSABLE: MAHARUKH DALAL, Founder, THE CAREER ACCELERATOR FOR WOMEN
In this episode of There Is No Alternative, Tina Bou-Saba, founder of CXT Investments, speaks with Maharukh Dalal, founder and head coach of The Career Accelerator for Women, a coaching company that helps ambitious mid-to-senior level women rise to the next level of their careers with measurable outcomes.
Maharukh spent two decades building a corporate career across four industries and four countries, finance on Wall Street, hospitality, consulting, and global leadership at a Fortune 500 company. When she was passed over for a VP role she was certain she had earned, she didn't just process the disappointment. She found the language for what had gone wrong, and eventually built a coaching practice around it. The insight at the center of everything she does: being the most reliable expert in the room and being seen as the obvious choice for leadership are two entirely different things.
In this episode, Maharukh and Tina get into the real mechanics of career advancement — the frameworks, the blind spots, the internal work, and the advocacy architecture that most high performers never think to build.
In This Episode:
Why the Expert Trap keeps high performers stuck, and what it actually takes to be seen as leadership material
The Name It and Claim It framework: how to articulate your ambition to the people who can help you get there
What the CLAIM framework is and how it guides clients from clarity to mastery in six letters
Why coaching is not about giving advice, and why advice doesn't stick even when it's right
How to design your identity as someone who does hard things, so your actions follow automatically
Why you cannot scale a service business one-to-one, and the cohort model that changed everything for Maharukh's practice
What a great executive coach actually does, and the questions to ask before you hire one
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