AWIS Webinar – Managing Up: Influence Without Authority to Earn Recognition and Respect

04/24/2025
By AWIS National

Managing up isn’t about trying to impress or overly please others. It’s a learnable skill set that helps you teach others how to treat you.

In this talk, author, human behavior professor, and executive coach, Melody Wilding, LMSW, offers a practical playbook for effectively engaging with your superiors. This session empowers you to get your ideas across, your work noticed, and your career advanced.

You may lack formal authority, but with these skills, you can get what you need from the people in charge and take control of your own work experience, even in the face of conflicting priorities, competing demands, and tight budgets.

WATCH THE RECORDING (You must be an AWIS member. Join today or contact awis@awis.org for group screening information.)

About the speaker:

Melody Wilding is a professor of human behavior at Hunter College and author of Managing Up. She was recently named one of Insider’s “most innovative career coaches.” Her background as a therapist and emotions researcher informs her unique approach, weaving evidence-based neuroscience and psychology with professional development. Her previous book is Trust Yourself.