How Senior Leaders Recover from a Stalled Career
Executive Careers with Fexingo: VP, C-Suite, and Senior Leadership Career Strategy · 2026-05-29 · 8 min
Episode notes
When a senior leader hits a plateau—no promotion, no stretch assignment, no board interest—the standard advice to 'be patient' or 'network more' rarely works. This episode examines the structured recovery framework used by ex-McKinsey partner turned CEO coach Anna Richter, who calls it the 'career torque' method. Richter's playbook involves three deliberate moves: a visibility audit that maps who actually sees your work at decision-making level, a skill re-anchoring exercise that repositions your expertise for adjacent roles, and a 90-day 'sprint portfolio' of small high-impact projects designed to generate new internal sponsorship. Lucas and Luna walk through a real case: a chief marketing officer at a Fortune 500 consumer goods company who was passed over twice for the C-suite before using the torque method to land a president role at a mid-cap competitor within 11 months.