For Fortune 500 High-Achievers on the Edge of a Promotion

You're already doing the next-level job. You just haven't been given it yet.

The strengths that made you indispensable are now keeping you in execution.

Executive coaching for high-performing leaders who are ready for broader scope—and for the organizations that don't want to lose them.

Book Your Executive Promotion Strategy Session → Explore This for Your Team
A paid, confidential working session — often covered by your company's professional-development budget.
MCC — TOP 4% OF COACHES WORLDWIDE · FORMER CNN WORLD REPORTER · FORMER PR EXECUTIVE · 4,000+ COACHING SESSIONS · 98% CLIENT IMPACT SCORE
Anush Gagua, MCC — Executive Coach
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Anush Gagua, MCC
Fortune 500 Executive Coach
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MCCTop 4% of Coaches Globally
98.19Impact Score / 100
4,400+Coaching Sessions Delivered
700+Leaders Coached
Member Progress Index measured by BetterUp, where Anush is a Distinguished Premier Fellow. MCC credential independently verifiable via Credly.
Client transformation

From high performer to recognized leader.

Sam did not need to prove he could work harder. He needed to redirect his energy, operate beyond execution and position himself for broader leadership.

2Promotions
10XRevenue Responsibility
LeaderFrom IC to Team Leadership
“I have had 2 promotions, more than 10X revenue responsibility and become a manager at Google. Anush is my secret to success… she helped me channel my energy into steps that helped me achieve more than I ever thought was possible.”
— Sam Mintz
Head of Video, Google
Is this you?

You have outgrown the way you have been succeeding.

The very strengths that built your career—working harder, carrying more, solving everything—may now be keeping you stuck in execution while the next level demands something different. The obstacle is almost never capability. It is one or two specific behaviors—visible to everyone around you, invisible to you.

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You are doing next-level work without the title.

Scope has grown faster than recognition—a common pattern at this level, and a solvable one.

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You have been told to cultivate your “executive presence” and be “more strategic.”

You know the feedback matters, but no one has translated it into the specific behaviors that will change how senior leaders perceive you.

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You are indispensable—but not advancing.

Being so relied on in execution can make it hard for others to imagine you operating above it.

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The pace that got you here is not sustainable.

Exhaustion erodes the presence, decisiveness and strategic range the next level requires. That is fixable—before it costs you the opportunity.

Not ready to book yet?

Start with the free Career Clarity Check.

Every stuck leader is guessing at one question: is it you — or is it the job? This assessment answers it in ten minutes. Part 1 scores your promotion readiness on the three things decision-makers actually weigh. Part 2 measures your role against the six job mismatches that Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez's research shows are proven to create burnout. You walk away with two numbers — your readiness score and your burnout load — and a clear read on which conversation comes next: your strategy, or your role.

Free · Instant download · Grounded in published burnout research · Bring your scores to your strategy session · No spam, unsubscribe anytime

Your company already has a budget for exactly this.
Most leaders never use it.

Most large organizations set aside professional-development funds for leadership growth. Invoice and documentation provided — ask your manager or HR/L&D partner.

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The Career Clarity & Executive Promotion Strategy Session

A confidential working session—not a disguised sales conversation—for high-performing leaders whose careers have stalled on the path to the next level.

You receive clarity and a practical strategy whether or not you continue into private coaching.

One-time offer · First-time clients only · Private 1:1 · 60 minutes
$500 USD

The next level typically carries a $30,000–$50,000 increase. Against a $500 session, even partial progress toward it is a 10X+ return.

✓ Fundable through your company's professional-development budget — invoice and documentation provided
✓ Backed by a 100% money-back Clarity Guarantee
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Your real promotion obstacle identified.
Capability, positioning, visibility, sponsorship, executive presence—or role fit.
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A clear read on what is yours to change.
Separate exhaustion from evidence and choose your next move from clarity.
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Your 90-day career acceleration priorities.
Know what to stop, start and elevate now.
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An honest recommendation on deeper support.
Where ongoing behavior change is needed, explore the right private coaching path.
Your next step · One-time offer for first-time clients
✓ The 100% Money-Back Clarity Guarantee

If you leave this session without a clear diagnosis of your promotion obstacle and your 90-day priorities, say so before we end the call and your session fee is fully refunded. Book the session risk free.

One hour. One clear plan. The Career Clarity & Executive Promotion Strategy Session — often fundable through your company's professional-development budget.

One honest note: this works for leaders willing to hear where the obstacle is theirs. If you are looking for validation rather than change, this is not the right investment.

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Backed by the Clarity Guarantee.

Where it can lead

Private 1:1 Executive Coaching Engagement

A scoped engagement (typically 12–24 sessions) with defined development objectives, pre/post assessment and a written outcomes summary. Designed to qualify for organizational leadership-development funding.

Engagement scope and pricing provided in a written proposal. Statement of work, coaching agreement and invoicing available for organizational sponsors.

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Client Results

“I can unequivocally say that her guidance has been nothing short of transformative… invaluable in helping me gain profound clarity on my next career steps and in crafting a strategic path forward with confidence.”
— Humberto Siúves
Senior Global Trade Counsel, Google
“Coach Anush has been instrumental to my career. She understands how to get to the root cause of an issue, teach you how to address complex—and often vague—scenarios, and to flourish as an authentic leader.”
— Jane Di Leo
Vice President, Corporate Communications, Medtronic
Measured, not promised

Development you can put on a budget line.

Anush's 1:1 coaching outcomes are measured independently by BetterUp: a Member Progress Index of 98.19 out of 100, aggregated across all coaching outcomes from post-session member surveys.

98.52Self-AwarenessMember-rated impact score / 100
98.32Equipped for ChangeMember-rated impact score / 100
98.32Goal ProgressMember-rated impact score / 100
98.11Overcoming ObstaclesMember-rated impact score / 100
97.71Impact on DevelopmentMember-rated impact score / 100
60Leaders CoachedIn the past 12 months alone
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Baseline diagnostic against defined leadership dimensions at the start of every engagement.
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Sponsor perspective incorporated where the organization funds the engagement.
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Written outcomes summary at close—so the leader and the sponsor can see exactly what changed.

Member Progress Index scores collected and computed by BetterUp from post-session member surveys, as of July 2026. Cohort results from a direct engagement at a Fortune 500 company, anonymized. Individual engagements are confidential; organizational reporting covers agreed development dimensions only, never session content.

Why Leaders Choose Coach Anush.

Coached at the level the next level demands.

Before coaching, Anush spent more than 20 years in high-stakes communication as a CNN World Reporter and PR executive. For her high impact score, at BetterUp UPLIFT 2024 she was invited to lead her own workshop on Executive Presence Embodiment, at a summit whose speaker program included Brené Brown, Adam Grant and Marshall Goldsmith. Her session had a waitlist. One attendee put it this way:

“Your session was just as inspiring and valuable as Marshall's. Let that sink in.”
— Rachel Gonzalez Levy, Ph.D.
BetterUp UPLIFT 2024

Helping exceptional leaders become the obvious choice for promotion — before burnout, politics, or AI stalls their career.

Anush Gagua is a top 4% Master Certified Coach and executive coach who has guided over 700 Fortune 500 leaders. With a warm, direct, and evidence-based style, she helps bold, brilliant leaders navigate the AI revolution by optimizing the human side of transformation. She empowers them to hold impactful, high-stakes conversations, secure easier buy-in, elevate executive presence, and achieve lasting success without burnout.

A BetterUp Premier Fellow with a Master's from UNC-Chapel Hill and a background as a PR executive, Anush brings deep communication and leadership expertise to her coaching. She is a sought-after speaker on performance growth, burnout prevention, and change leadership as organizations innovate, restructure, and adapt through AI-driven transformation, mergers, and reorgs.

A BetterUp Coach Award recipient and thought leader, her mission is to empower thousands of brilliant leaders to experience transformative career growth. She has spoken at Uplift 2024 and Gather NORAM and has delivered leadership workshops for 200+ participants with raving reviews.

Your next move

Your career should not stall because the old way of succeeding stopped working.

In one hour with an MCC who has coached more than 700 leaders, get a clear diagnosis, a practical 90-day direction and an honest recommendation on what it will take to become the obvious choice for your next level—sustainably. Guaranteed, or the session costs you nothing.

Book Your Executive Promotion Strategy Session → Explore This for Your Team →