Invisible to Invaluable Presentation

1. From Invisible to
Invaluable
10x your value without 10x your
workload
July 2023
Authors: Sarah Green & Crystal Badesha

2. Introductions 1. Who we are
2. What is visibility in the workplace
3. Why is visibility so important
4. How you can increase your
visibility
5. Close
Sarah Crystal

3. Activity
What does “visibility” mean to you?
Think of as many things as you can, and submit them to our word
cloud through Mentimetter

4. What is
Visibility?

5. Why Visibility in the Workplace Matters
Statistics
- Women only hold about 1/3 of the 5,200 top roles in UK society
- BAME people hold just 4.6% of the UK's most powerful roles - Just 51 of the top 1,097 workplace roles in the UK are held by
BAME people
- In business and finance - BAME people represent 5% (7 out of 155) - This group contains 98 members of the FTSE 100 - Of
these only 2 are led by BAME people, and there are only 5 women
According to Harvey Coleman's book: “Empowering Yourself,
The Organizational Game Revealed”.
Excellent work performance is like getting your foot in the door
– you can’t even start to progress without it…
But overall, performance only contributes 10% towards your
success in climbing the career ladder or growing your
business.
But “Exposure” (AKA – Visibility!) is worth 6x more than your
work performance!

6. A Case Study in
Visibility
Indra Nooyi
• Indian-American business executive who was Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo
• Born in Madras (now Chennai) – her father was a bank official,
and her mother was a housewife.
• Competed in cricket and played guitar in a female rock band
whilst at college
• Decided to further her education by moving to America to
study at Yale, where she worked as a receptionist to make ends
meet.
• Rose through the ranks at PepsiCo, starting in Business
Strategy, working on high-profile projects such as business
acquisitions and sales; became CEO after 12 years.
• Made Forbes “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” list
for 9 consecutive years
• Board member for Amazon and the International Cricket
Council
• Entered into the American National Women’s Hall of Fame
• Net Worth - $16.3m
The first woman of colour and the first
immigrant to head a Fortune
50 company

7. A Case Study in
Visibility
Steven Bartlett
• Co-founded 2 marketing companies: The Social Chain
and Media Chain
Ø According to The Guardian: The Social Chain was
valued at $600 million in 2021 but is forecast to reach
€1 billion in revenue by the 2023 financial year
• Entrepreneur, speaker, investor, author and the host of
UK's No.1 podcast ‘The Diary of a CEO’
• 2018 – Won “British Black Entrepreneur of the Year”
award
• 2021 - Released his debut book titled ‘Happy Sexy
Millionaire’ - made The Sunday Times best sellers list
• 2022 - Joined the Dragons’ Den TV Show as the
youngest ever Dragon in the show’s history
• Net worth - £68m (Forbes Magazine when he was 26)
From university dropout to creating the
fastest-growing social media agency in
Europe

8. Breakout
What challenges exist in becoming more visible in your workplace?
Spend 5 minutes in your breakout groups thinking of as many as you
can.
When you return – add to the chat the number of challenges you
thought on – the team with the most is the winner!

9. How you can increase your visibility…
• Even if you’re an introvert
• Even if you’re an under-represented group
• Even if you work remotely
• Even if you’re just starting on your career…
• Or even if you’ve been in your long for years!

10. As an ambitious and capable colleague
I want to 10x my visibility in the workplace
So that I can 10x my value and earn a
payrise / promotion.

11. Summary
Visibility accounts for
60% of your “upward
mobility” in the
workplace
Being visible is even
more important if you
are from an under-
represented group in
your industry, as
unconscious bias can
stand in your way.
This means you can
increase your
perceived value in the
workplace just by being
more visible!

12. Thank You!