The No Club: Eliminating Non-Promotable Work
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.
Speaker
Yasmina Rauber
Yasmina Rauber is a Swiss executive turned leadership coach with over 25 years of experience in commodities trading and shipping. She began her career in 1995 at Alcotra SA as the company’s only woman trader managing purchasing ethanol from Asia. She later deepened her chemical tanker & shipping expertise at a Geneva-based shipbroker before returning to Alcotra as Vice President of Chartering and General Manager of the Geneva office, serving on the Executive Committee until 2016. That same year, she co-founded Swiss Maritime Services AG in Zug with Alcogroup.
In 2020, driven by her commitment to gender equality (UN SDG #5), Yasmina transitioned into leadership coaching. She designs programs that empower women, address gender bias, and strengthen communication and emotional intelligence within organizations.
She has held prominent industry roles, including President of WISTA Switzerland (2014–2022), Board Member of SuisseNégoce, and Board Member & General Secretary of the Zug Commodity Association. She co-organizes Mare Forum Geneva and frequently speaks or moderates at major global maritime and commodity events on an international basis.