12yrs exp, left consulting at Dir level, now L7 IC in big tech past 2 yrs. Feels my growth is stagnating due to IC nature of role, leadership opportunities, scope of work (more ops/process). Feels like the step to executive roles is slipping away, any advice on how ppl achieved it?

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You can move to people management role. People do it all the time. Nobody will award you executive roles.

At tech firms like Google, meta etc, you need to have backing of directors. If you are an IC, you need to be best of the lot and have direct lines to your skips. You might want to take a look at current execs, they all have IC backgrounds at principal levels.

Consulting director is an overinflated title, so that means nothing

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I'm not in an exec role yet, but I've been working on increasing my leadership experience by focusing on expanding leadership skills outside of the day-to-day. So things like mentoring, leading projects, or joining cross-functional initiatives. Building influence beyond your role can open up those opportunities, and definitely the networking of it all helps people see your leadership and that you're taking initiative.

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What is an L7?

Equivalent to pre-exec level in tech

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