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FOR ENGINEERS. SCIENTISTS. DATA LEADERS. WOMEN IN TECH.
You've been in that room. You knew the answer. And something stopped you.
This training is about that something — and exactly how to fix it.
With Katty Lopez De Gull
🎤 Speaker — Grace Hopper Celebration 2026
The world's largest gathering of women technologists
You Knew the Answer. You Second-Guessed It Anyway.
That's Not Imposter Syndrome. That's an Unsolved Signal Problem.
Embodied cognition research shows that self-monitoring in high-stakes environments — the cognitive load of constantly adjusting how you show up to avoid bias or judgment — drains executive function in real time.
It is why you hold back when you should speak. Over-explain when you should lead. Leave the room feeling like you left your best self at the door.
This training shows you the exact signal system that stops it — and gives you a framework you can use at your next high-stakes moment.
This is crazy…..but Im surrounded by engineers and they just introduced me as the person who owns all of the messaging and website for this product they’re building. They 'accidentally' think I’m in charge. Brianna B. Santa Cruz, CA
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What we’ll cover in the training:
- How decision-makers form authority assessments in seconds, and why technical credentials alone don't override them.
- The Power Symbol Map — the unconscious cultural signals and how to send them deliberately, without changing your values, your voice, or who you are.
- The 4 Image Needs Framework (Alignment, Authority, Safety, Expression). Hint: it can eliminates "the tightrope" completely.
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Still deciding? Here's why this is different from every other leadership training you've seen.
WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS
Why High-Performing Women in STEM Stay Invisible — Even When the Data Is on Their Side
You've done the work. The credentials. The deliverables. The late nights.
And you still find yourself second-guessing before you speak. Holding back in the meeting. Leaving the room wondering why someone with half your depth just got the opportunity you earned.
Here's what the research actually says is happening:
Studies in embodied cognition (Adam & Galinsky, 2012; Carney, Cuddy & Yap, 2010) show that physical self-presentation does not just signal authority to others — it directly alters the presenter's own cognitive state, affecting decisiveness, risk tolerance, and performance under pressure.
Brené Brown's shame research and Daring Leadership work adds a second layer: visibility requires values alignment, grounded confidence, and clear boundaries — not conformity, not performance, not becoming someone you are not.
The gap between the version of you that hesitates and the version that leads is not a talent gap. It is not a confidence gap. It is a signal gap — and signal gaps are learnable, closeable, and fast to fix once you know what you're working with.
This session shows you exactly what you're working with.
What This Training Covers?
You will leave with:
- The neuroscience of first impressions in leadership contexts — how decision-makers form authority assessments in under 3 seconds, and why technical credentials alone don't override them.
- The 4 Image Needs Framework (Alignment, Authority, Safety, Expression) — a structured diagnostic system for identifying exactly which executive presence signals you're currently missing and why your brain keeps defaulting to self-monitoring instead of leading.
- How to use personal image as a behavioral reinforcement system — so your physical self-presentation primes your brain for high-stakes performance before you walk in the room: promotions, presentations, negotiations, C-level transitions.
- The Power Symbol Map — the unconscious cultural signals your organization uses to identify leadership material, and how to send them deliberately without changing your values, your voice, or who you are.
- A personalized audit framework you can apply to your next high-visibility moment the same week.
THE FRAMEWORK: 3 Shifts That Move You from Second-Guessing to Indispensable
The Control Shift
FROM EFFORT TO SIGNAL
You have been in the effort loop: more deliverables, more projects, more proof. Research shows that effort does not produce visibility — signal does.
In this shift, you'll learn how to build your own Power System: a set of embodied, research-backed signals that communicate leadership capacity consistently — so your brain doesn't engage in cognitive dissonance. No more speaking twice to be heard. No more being the best-kept secret on the team.
The Redirect Shift
FROM SELF-MONITORING TO PRESENT
Self-monitoring — adjusting how you show up in real time to avoid bias, judgment, or being perceived as "too much" — is one of the heaviest cognitive loads a woman in a male-dominated environment carries. Research directly links high self-monitoring to reduced executive function and slower, less decisive thinking.
This is the shift that explains why you hold back when you know the answer. In this shift, you'll learn how to redirect those cognitive resources from managing others' perceptions back to leading — with grounded certainty, even in rooms where the bias is real and the politics are loud.
The Achieve Shift
FROM CONTRIBUTOR TO AUTHORITY
There is a specific inflection point between "best individual contributor on the team" and "the one they're building the leadership track around" — and most women in STEM are never handed a map for it. It is not a performance gap. It is a presence gap.
In this shift, you'll use the 4 Image Needs Framework (Alignment, Authority, Safety, Expression) to close that gap — and make the transition to executive authority in your specific environment without losing your technical credibility or your authentic self.
TESTIMONIALS
Their Impact, Their Words
A feeling like no other. I notice how people reacted to me differently, because I was feeling unstoppable
“Katty geniuses changes life”
– [Ivette Carolina A.]
I was able to delivered an engaging presentation during Google IO 2022
“I was approached by one of the Vice Presidents who notice my presence”
– [María eugenia b.]
ABOUT US
The Researcher Behind the Framework
In 2007, Katty Lopez De Gull was in that room.
The one where she knew her field, had the data, and still sat quietly through meeting after meeting — unable to bridge the gap between what she knew and what the room registered.
She tried the conventional approach: learn more, adapt more, blend in more. It made things worse. The self-monitoring drained her. The hesitation deepened.
What changed everything was not a confidence exercise. It was a specific, deliberate shift in how she physically showed up — a shift that stopped the self-monitoring loop in its tracks, freed her cognitive resources, and gave her brain the signal it needed to stop second-guessing and start leading.
The results were measurable: promotion to Senior level, public recognition from the CEO as the only person to hit company-wide sales goals across the entire organization, and a 230% salary increase over 3 years.
She spent the next 15 years turning that personal discovery into a research-informed framework — grounded in embodied cognition science, shame research, and direct work with women in engineering, data science, and technology leadership.
She brings this framework to the Grace Hopper Celebration 2026 — the world's largest gathering of women technologists.
This free training is the first place you can partially access it.
There's a Version of You That Walks Into That Room and Leads!
She Doesn't Have More Confidence. She Has a Specific System.
You've felt her. The version that speaks with certainty. Decides faster. Feels solid instead of shaky.
The gap between where you are and where she operates is not talent, not credentials, and not years of experience.
It is a set of behavioral signals — grounded in research, specific to high-stakes environments, and learnable in a single session.
This training gives you the framework. The science. And the exact steps.
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