Session Summary: Non-promotable tasks like note-taking, organizing team events, onboarding new hires, and low-visibility administrative work are essential to keeping organizations running, yet they rarely contribute to career advancement. Research shows these tasks disproportionately fall to women, often quietly shaping workload, burnout, and promotion readiness.

This session explores the roots of non-promotable work inequity and offers practical tools for both individuals and leaders. Attendees will learn how to identify low-value work, set boundaries with confidence, share responsibility across teams more equitably, and redesign norms that unintentionally burden women. Participants will walk away with scripts for saying “no,” strategies for reframing expectations, and a clearer understanding of how to shift their role toward more strategic, promotable contributions without sacrificing teamwork or credibility.