April 2026

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Three things you need to get promoted in cybersecurity

Coaching, Leadership /

You worked hard, you got all the certs, you know your stuff. Surely, you will be the next in line for promotion in your cybersecurity job, right?

To a point, that is true. Technical credibility matters and nobody is going to promote someone who doesn’t know what they are doing.

But sometimes that is not enough, I see many competent people stay in the same place, where it is convenient (to others!) that they stay. Basically you become so good at your job that it’s best for everyone that you keep doing that and only that.

So what is actually going on?

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Building a Portfolio Career in Cybersecurity: A Guide for Multipassionate Professionals

Coaching /

One of my clients is the most multipassionate person I have ever come across 🙂

She has a solid cybersecurity role, she is amazing at what she does and she enjoys that too. On the side, she has many interests and loves to try new things that most of the time don’t fit neatly inside a job description. She signed up for coaching with a question that I suspect many of you have asked yourselves at some point:

“Is there a way to do more than one thing… and actually get paid for it?”

The answer is yes. And there’s even a name for it.

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