Therese Miclot LLC

I'm all about helping leaders up their game. I offer skills and coaching that accelerate results. I provide dynamic, top-notch facilitation and I can deliver it in-person or virtual. I collaborate with my clients to create custom learning experiences that shift behaviors and mindsets for maximum impact.

Leadership Development Consultant

Proteus International

Director, Facilitation Excellence

I worked with organizations to ensure their employees have the skills and knowledge they need to succeed, by supporting clients to build and then deliver Proteus' practical, skill-based learning solutions.

Practice Director, Building Skills and Knowledge

Rockwell Automation

Manager, Global Learning & Development

Manager, HR Strategy & Planning

Manager, Talent Acquisition

Brilliant at the job. Struggling with leadership.
That’s the gap that stalls growth, burns out top talent, and slows execution.

I’m an executive coach for technical leaders who want to stop firefighting and start scaling.

For over 25 years, I’ve coached 4,000+ managers and executives across technology, SaaS, pharma, banking, media, and manufacturing. Most were promoted for technical excellence and left to figure out leadership on their own. That’s when performance dips, timelines slip, and teams get stuck reacting instead of driving growth.

I close that gap.

I help technical experts become strategic leaders who can:
• Communicate with influence in high-stakes rooms
• Build authentic executive presence (without pretending)
• Delegate effectively to remove leadership bottlenecks
• Lead through constant change without burnout
• Align technical and business stakeholders for faster decisions

This isn’t theory, it’s leadership development built through executive coaching, peer group programs, and facilitation skills pressure-tested in real rooms where leadership actually happens.

💡 Follow me here and subscribe to [The Shift], my weekly LinkedIn newsletter for practical strategies on:
• Turning technical experts into strategic leaders
• Building executive presence that sticks
• Delegation, feedback, and accountability that drive results
• Navigating high-stakes moments with clarity and calm
• Scaling leadership capacity in fast-growing companies

If your top talent is technically brilliant but struggling to scale their impact, let’s talk.
If you want tools and insights that make you a better leader every week, hit 🔔 and join The Shift.

Therese Miclot

Some programs deliver content.
 
This one delivers a shift. In voice. In presence. In what women believe they’re capable to do.
   
This was the third Rising Leaders EMEA cohort and I’m struck again by what happens when women have the space, structure, and support to lead on their own terms.
 
It’s a privilege to facilitate this program alongside my Proteus International colleague Marie Holive and to partner with The WICT Network Europe and The WICT Network who’ve made it their mission to grow not just women leaders, but transformational ones. 
 
These programs matter because they don’t ask women to lead like someone else.
 
They ask them to lead like 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴.
 
To the participants (tagged in comments), you reminded me what that looks like in action.
 
Here’s to cohort three and to many more to come!

I help technical experts expand their impact, across teams, functions, and priorities. Believer that work moves at the speed of influence. Executive Coach. Facilitator. Leadership Development.

She thought she was being a great manager.
Until her team started avoiding her.

The fix?
She stopped helping.

One shift.
Zero hand-holding.
Everything changed.

🎥 Watch the clip. You’ll see exactly what I mean.

They got the title.
The team.
The trust.

Now they’re floundering and no one wants to say it out loud.

This week’s edition of The Shift is about what happens after the fast promotion when momentum fades, and confidence goes quiet.

He was the obvious choice. Promoted fast. Trusted to lead a large product team. Known for getting things done. The one leadership always counted on to

Open article: When Fast Promotions Backfire by Therese Miclot • 2 min read

It wasn’t a breach.
It wasn’t an incident.
It wasn’t a tool rollout or a long-awaited reorg.

The biggest unlock came from one cybersecurity leader who decided to show up differently.

Here’s what changed:

For 30 days, he practiced one simple habit:
→ Slow down before stepping in.

And as he did, he started noticing things he normally missed:

• Was I reacting, or actually leading?
• Did I explain the “why,” not just the “what”?
• Did I adjust to how others think, not just how I think?
• Did I move the work forward or just move it faster?

Not a checklist. A 30-day habit.

Here’s what shifted around him:

✅ Alignment happened early, instead of after the fact
✅ Fewer escalations, fewer interruptions
✅ Decisions held, even as new information came in
✅ His team stopped managing him and started managing the work

In his words:
“I finally created the clarity my team needed to stop spinning.”

This is what happens when a technical leader stops jumping into the weeds
and starts leading at the level their team actually needs.

Because when senior technical leaders stay stuck in execution:

• Teams overwork the wrong priorities
• Cross-functional efforts drag
• Rework multiplies
• Progress slows, even when the people are talented

Multiply that by 3, 5, or 12 leaders...
and the system slows down from the inside.

I’ve coached dozens of high-performing technical and security leaders through this exact shift. It’s not magic.
It’s a behavioral reset that drives real business outcomes.

If 2026 needs to move faster than 2025, make sure your top people aren’t unintentionally slowing the system.

👇 Where do you see leadership habits costing your team clarity or speed?

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Your leadership program isn’t broken.
It’s just allergic to pressure.

In the room? Everyone agrees on what “good leadership” looks like.
But when the tension hits:
👻 Feedback vanishes
🧹 Conflict gets swept
🧍🏻♂️ Silence wins

We fixed that.
Not with more frameworks.
With one habit, repped daily, under real heat.

👇 Here’s how it worked.

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A leader once told me, “I’m never wrong about people.”
That was my first red flag.

Ever feel like you’re shouting into the void after flagging a risk to stakeholders?

You raise the red flag.
Everyone nods.
Then, nothing.

Crickets.
No next step. No reply.
But the problem is still sitting in your lap.

Here’s the line to crack the silence (steal this):

"Appreciate the convo, [Name]. I’ll sketch a quick summary with options impacts, something you can gut-check. Let me know if I’ve missed the mark."

Why does this work?
→ It keeps things light, but moves the ball forward
→ Shows you’re a partner, not a nag
→ Makes it simple for them to take action (or at least say yes/no)

In security, the real power move isn’t escalation.
It’s making the next step painless, so people want to say yes.

Stakeholders aren’t ignoring you on purpose.
Most are just overloaded and allergic to friction.

So next time the thread goes quiet, drop this line.
Watch the conversation pick back up.

Got your own magic line?
Share it below.

Cyber Leadership Coach | Security work moves at the speed of influence, not expertise | Helping Directors & future CISOs lead across teams, functions, and priorities.

I had a three-second cringe moment.
It stayed with me for hours.

Here’s why it matters and what it taught me about leading in high-pressure environments.

👇 Read this week's edition of The Shift

I had a moment this week. A small cringe. Barely a half-second long. But enough to follow me into the night. At 3:07am, my brain hit replay. Again. Ag

Open article: The 3am Leadership Trap by Therese Miclot • 2 min read

He was getting everything done, except what mattered most.

A technical leader I coached was known for execution.

🚩 And that was the problem. 🚩

He’d become essential for output, not for leadership.
People came to him for answers, not alignment.
He was solving problems, not shaping direction.

I’ve seen this pattern across the technical leaders I coach:
When their impact plateaus, it’s rarely a capability issue.
It’s an altitude issue.

So we focused on one habit over 30 days:
→ Set the altitude. Then lead from there.

That meant:
•Zooming out before weighing in
•Leading cross-functional conversations early, not reacting late
•Getting clear on the business priority before deciding on the team activity

He didn’t need more tools. He needed a shift in how he showed up.

And here’s what changed:
✅ Buy-in came faster
✅ Resistance dropped
✅ His own words: “Collaboration across peers got easier and faster.”

I work with fast-moving technical orgs to help high-performing leaders shift from doing to driving.

Because execution won’t scale your business. Leadership will.

If you’re watching someone on your team work twice as hard to have half the impact, they’re not underperforming. They’re just leading from the wrong altitude.

👇 Seeing this in your org? DM me and I’ll send you the habit we started with.

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You could feel it, even if no one dared to say it.

One leader’s communication style had quietly reshaped how the whole security org operated.

He never said “my way or the highway." He didn’t have to.

❌ He jumped in with answers before the team finished their thought.
❌ He re-wrote decisions at the last minute.
❌ Always had the sharpest take in the room.

So the team adjusted:
 •Escalated every decision
 •Softened every update
 •Spent more time managing his reactions than managing the business

From the outside? It looked like high performance.
Incidents handled.
Audits passed.

But under the surface:
 •Decision quality dropped
 •Cross-functional meetings doubled
 •Trust quietly dried up

We spent 30 days building a single habit:
→ Lead from the right altitude.

He stopped jumping in to solve.
Started asking better questions.
Stopped being the exception everyone had to work around.

What changed?
✅ Faster incident response
✅ Tighter alignment across IT and business units
✅ Meetings ended with decisions and not more questions

His words:
“I thought I was protecting the org. I was actually limiting it.”

In security, the cost of invisible influence is real:
👉Latency
👉 Burnout
👉 Risk exposure

If you’re the technical expert everyone trusts, make sure you’re not also the bottleneck everyone’s tiptoeing around.

High-performing leaders don’t stall because they’re unmotivated.
They stall because the system lets them stay siloed.

One org brought me in when it became clear:

“We’re not having the conversations we need to have.”

The issues weren’t obvious at first.
But under the surface?
 • Priorities kept misaligning
 • Decisions were getting reworked
 • And leaders were busy, not connected

So we tried something simple and different:

🟢 Each person chose one visible leadership behavior to practice
🟢 They got paired with a peer for accountability
🟢 They tracked their progress weekly, in real conversations, not hypotheticals

Here’s what happened:

✅ 70% made a clear commitment
✅ 100% with an accountability partner followed through
✅ Those who worked on “flexing” saw an 80% behavior shift

But what mattered most?

Their teams felt it.
 • Meetings moved faster
 • Direction got clearer
 • Less time spent decoding leaders who didn’t know how to adjust

This is the gap most leadership programs miss.
You don’t just need smarter leaders.
You need them to build new habits that the org can feel and trust.

👇 If your leaders are still being rewarded for speed, but not for how they lead, you’re not building capacity. You’re burning it.

🟢 I build behavior systems inside high-pressure orgs so leaders don’t stall growth.
If that’s what you need in 2026, DM me.

If you’re praising all-nighters, you’re rewarding your own broken system.

Watch this before your next ‘hero’ story goes viral inside the company.

Cyber leadership changes quietly.
 
 
One day, what got you promoted
 
is no longer what you’re evaluated on  and no one tells you the rules changed.

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Most high performers don’t burn out from the work.
They burn out from being the only one who can do the work.

Grateful to Teresa Conroy-Roth for inviting me into a conversation on why over-performance often makes leaders invisible and how to change that narrative.

This one’s for anyone feeling stuck between doing the work and leading the work.

Trusted Advisor - Board Member - Executive Engagement - Coach

⚡ Lightning Leadership - Therese Miclot - “Is Excellence Limiting Your Leadership?”
Therese challenges a belief many CIOs and senior executives hold: that excellence always accelerates your career. But what if being exceptional is actually making you invisible?

Far too many high performers become the “go-to super-doer”—the person who quietly carries the weight of the organization, delivers flawlessly, and solves every problem… often at the cost of being seen as a leader rather than a workhorse.
 🔹 Why excellence can become a trap—and how over-performance hides your strategic value
 🔹 The turning point when being indispensable actually limits influence, growth, and opportunity
 🔹 How overwhelmed high achievers can step out of execution mode and step into leadership identity

Therese offers one powerful step you can take today:
 👉 Stop saying yes automatically.  Create space—mental, emotional, and strategic—by pausing before you commit. Leadership requires capacity, clarity, and the ability to operate above the work, not inside it.

This episode is a must-listen for CIOs, executives, and emerging leaders navigating the tension between excellence and elevation.
#LightningLeadership #ExecutivePresence #CIOLeadership #HighPerformance #LeadershipGrowth

You look at your team and think,
“They’re good. But are they ready?”

Every growth-stage company hits this point:
The business scales faster than the leaders.

And suddenly, you’re stuck managing the people who were supposed to help you scale.

This edition of The Shift is for the founders, CEOs, and execs who’ve locked in next year’s budget but are staring down a bigger question:

Who’s actually ready to carry this?

Most leaders set goals to do more.
The smart ones set goals to be different.

If you’re mapping development goals for yourself or your team,
this question will change the conversation
and that’s exactly the work I help leaders do.

Liron Segev

YouTube isn’t just a video platform. It’s how AI learns to trust your business.
If AI can’t find you, it won’t recommend you.
That means you’re not just invisible online. You’re invisible at the moment of decision.

That’s why I help founder-led, expert-driven businesses turn YouTube into their number one AI visibility engine.
The goal: build authority, trust, and a compounding flow of qualified inbound leads.

Not by chasing trends.
Not by trying to go viral.
But by teaching AI and your future clients who you are, what you do, and why it matters.

Over the past decade, I’ve helped top creators and brands:
✔ Translate complex ideas into searchable, high-trust content
✔ Design full-funnel YouTube strategies aligned to revenue goals
✔ Build content systems that feed AI, drive discovery, and never start from scratch

I proved it myself.
I built a YouTube channel in one of the toughest niches — tech and routers — and grew it to over 1.1 million subscribers. Because when you position and structure content the right way, even "boring" businesses win.

Now I help other businesses do the same.

I don’t rely on guesswork.
I don’t believe in post-and-hope marketing.

Every client gets a tailored, executable strategy designed to increase discoverability, build trust, and turn YouTube into a true inbound lead engine.

If you’re serious about making YouTube work for your business and your future visibility, let’s connect.

YouTube Growth Strategist | Founder @ LironSegev

TheTechieGuy.com

I founded the Technology Blog in 2008 which has become South Africa’s leading technology blog. 
The Blog covers technical issues, market related news and analysis, product reviews and technology events. All content that appears on the blog is written by myself.  
•	The Blog has won several awards namely :
o	The South African Blog Award for Best Science & Technology Blog 3 years in a row; in 2012, 2013, and 2014 
o	The Best Advice Blog on the African Continent in 2014
o	The Runner-Up of Best Advice Blog on the African Continent in 2015. 
•	The Blog contain insights into new technologies not yet made public which has allowed the Blog to be a constant source of information.
•	The Blog’s reputation has resulted in brands such Samsung, Huawei, BlackBerry, HTC, Alcatal, Intel, Microsoft, Ford, BMW etc. inviting me to be their guest at conferences both in South Africa and international events such as Mobile World Congress in Spain, CeBit in Germany, Huawei Cloud Computing in China and various tech product launches globally. 
•	As a known personality in the tech world, I am often invited to provide expert-commentary in national TV news and business-related shows, radio and print publications.
•	I am a freelance writer who is commissioned to provide thought leadership articles to both print and online publications  
•	I am a senior writer for the largest circulated technical magazine in South Africa. 
•	Having the opportunity to interview top executives from national and international companies has provided me with access and insights into the mind-set of companies and products and direct access at an Executive level.
•	Have created one of South Africa’s leading tech related YouTube channel which covers products, reviews, analysis and interviews.
•	The blog hosts repeated brand campaigns combined with Editorials, Video, marketing, social media amplification via Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus

Award Winning Tech Blogger @ TheTechieGuy.com

vidIQ

I produced and hosted the top YouTube Creator Podcast where I interviewed some of the top YouTube minds in the industry!  My mission was to learn and educate the audience about the YouTube platform and how different Creators grew their channels, monetized their audiences, and how they built their YouTube businesses.

YouTube Strategist Creator Podcast Host

Worked & coached some of the biggest YouTube creators in the world.
Weekly livestream training on YouTube Growth for thousands of YouTube creators.
YouTube Speaker at VidCon, VidSummit, CVX, and other creator events
Ran YouTube events for the company around the world.
Created value-added product and services marketplace for Content Creators
Built a YouTube Channel Audit department

Director of Customer Success

Swift Consulting - Socially Matters

Likes are nice but LEADS are better!
With the ever-changing algorithms, organic reach is declining at a rapid rate. Likes are not what they used to be. It's no wonder companies are getting frustrated with social media and the lack of ROI. 
This is where LEADS come in to change it all. While Likes look good on a report, Likes are not SALES. LEADS are the way to go! 

•	Increased a large retailer’s e-commerce revenue by 3 times the industry average by conceptualizing the strategy and spearheading the marketing team. 
•	Oversaw all paid-for social media marketing campaigns across various social networks.
•	Set KPIs for contracted partner agencies and ensured these were met with regular feedback sessions.
•	Defined the e-commerce roadmap for a Health and Fitness Equipment company which resulted in acquiring customers from regions that were previously not serviced by the company.
•	Orchestrated a social media campaign for a Kickstarter crowdfunding project resulting in the campaign being fully funded within minutes of launch.
•	Successfully combated negative brand reputation by deploying various SEO mechanisms.
•	Initiated multiple Lead Generation funnels for cold and warm audiences by using combinations of lead magnets and scarcity offers.
•	Cultivated a network of brand advocates and Influencers resulting in acquiring fans and customers across various niche verticals that were previously untapped.
•	Created a Facebook Marketing training program to teach clients the inner working of Facebook marketing.
•	Provided guidance to clients after auditing their funnels, campaigns and social media strategies.
•	Fostered relationships and mentored a team of outsourced writers, designers, and programmers to achieve various objectives

Senior Social Media and Marketing Director

Swift Consulting

CEO, CTO, CIO and Business owners fundamentally want to know two things: 
1. Do I need all this IT stuff ?
2. Am I paying the right amount for the IT solutions ?

Defined the company’s yearly objectives creating a clear focus that allowed the company to identify an early gap in the market, resulting in the company becoming a strong solution provider to the neglected mid-sized company market.  
•	Implemented a new corporate strategy transforming the company from selling boxed-solutions, to providing complex consultation services to corporates throughout South Africa without increasing the company’s operational cost. 
•	Key to the strategy was negotiating with service providers for preferential rates and extraordinary service level agreements resulting in the company dominating based on price, quality and level of service.
•	Responsible for the successful negotiation of a joint venture partnership to deploy technical Linux solutions deriving monthly recurring revenues without additional running costs.
•	Swift Consulting took over the running and development of SwiftSMS business (info below),  to provide Mobile solutions and expand the range of services.
•	Designed and implemented the company’s internal processes and systems
•	Opened and developed new marketing channels and opportunities
•	Streamlined the company to operate with a handful of highly trained consultants
•	Consultation Project example include: 
o	Key lead Consultant in the strategy and deployment of one of South Africa’s largest Retailer’s ecommerce system.
Defining Digital Strategy and liaison across the group’s departments

Business Strategy Executive

University of Pretoria

Responsible for writing and managing the Request for Proposal (RFP) to source a new service provider for the University's vast website properties. 
Lead the process of the team from the RFP, to the service provider evaluation, to negotiating provider contract to defining the user experience.
Upon completion, the processes was then handed back to the University executive and IT management team.

Project: IT Strategist & Business Analyst

JD Group

Working with the corporation's CEO and the executive team including the CFO and CMO as an IT strategist fulfilling the role of CIO, I was responsible for the strategy and execution of Hi Fi Corporation's IT projects in conjunction with JD Group's IT services. which included the national WAN, Interactive initiatives (website & mobile), In Store system and processes. 

Responsible to consulting to the group for the migration of the HiFi Corporation website into eCommerce and creating a social media strategy.

IT Strategist & Consultant (Project)

Blue Label Telecoms

Consulting to Blue Label on the IT systems of a newly acquired business. The retail business was in the process of being sold to a third party which required system integration, and an ongoing development of the IT strategy for the business.

IT Strategist & Business Analyst (Project)

FISHWICKS PRINTERS

Brought into the business as the CTO and responsible for overseeing and redesigning the company's  WAN network, connectivity and Hosting environment.
Role entailed consulting to the executive team about how the network would need to change in-order to ensure align the technical company's product to operate in a highly competitive environment. 
Responsible for the appointment of the newly appointed technical team and company who would be responsible for the day to day operation of the business.

Aucor

Responsible for the national running of the company's IT infrastructure including all aspects of IT such as Email, connectivity, web, and various servers.
Developed a customized Auction System that streamlined the company's operation and interaction with external services providers whilst providing Aucor management control and tracking of information.

Project: IT Analyst

I help founder-led B2B firms turn YouTube into a predictable lead engine.

Companies contact me when they have listened to every "guru", 
followed every hack, and their channel still gets no leads for their business.

That’s when I step in.

I use the ICE Framework that I created, which is the same system I used to grow a channel about Wi-Fi routers to 1.1M+ subscribers and 130M+ views.

If I can scale the world’s most boring topic, imagine what I can do with your expertise?

What I deliver:
A clear growth strategy tailored to your business
A proven framework (ICE) that turns every video into an inbound salesperson
The confidence that you finally have a system, not guesswork

No theory. No bullshit.
Just a strategy and a framework that works.

If you want to stop wasting time with video uploads that are not getting anywhere,
let's chat and see how I can help: https://calendly.com/lironsegev/content-strategy-chat

(ps. Do NOT call me if you want "to go viral" - that crap is the last thing your business needs)

When you have way too much fun talking about all things YouTube!

I love how YouTube is providing tools to make creating content easier and 
removing a lot of the friction that prevents more businesses from sharing their expertise with the world.

Thank you Jerry Potter 👋 for having me on Social Media Examiner  podcast and looking forward to geeking out more!

Here is a link to the show: https://lnkd.in/gen8f5Yj

I help businesses turn YouTube channels into lead machines | YouTube Strategist | Built my tech channel to over 1.1M+ subscribers with over 130M views

Putting videos on YouTube and moving on 

is like ordering coffee and never collecting it.

It's crazy to me that after doing all the work of getting a video out, businesses are not leveraging the power of what they have just done.

What I like to do with my clients is build out one substantial, teaching-focused video explaining a problem or walking through a process. 

Once it’s up, we slice out short moments for Shorts and Reels, transcribe the best sections into newsletters and posts, and pull out direct answers for FAQ clips. 

One shoot covers an entire month of being everywhere. And that is on purpose.

When people see your face solving problems that they have, it does two things: 
First, it hits straight at user intent (that’s what people come to search for). 
Second, it builds actual trust because they’ve seen you actually do it.

Many "gurus" tell you to make more content to "be consistent," or some other bullshit.

I don't believe MORE is better. 
I believe in leveraging what you have to get MORE.

I’ll be honest - I don’t get it.

Why are so many businesses still ignoring YouTube?

Video is the number one way to show that you know your stuff and can help a viewer who needs your help.

So why do so few companies treat it like a strategic business asset?

Businesses are not trying to be “a YouTuber.”
YouTube is about building a content library and being recommended when your ideal client is actively searching for what you do.

I’m not trying to be dramatic.

This year I’ve watched good expert-led businesses lose clients to that "new-business" because they "Hoovered it". They literally told me that they don't need to invest in content because "everyone knows who they are."

That didn't work out well for Hoover...
And it isn't working out too well for those who are relying on marketing tactics from 2023.
 
You have to be top of mind, or someone else will be, especially in the world of AI, where your web traffic is declining fast.

You need to be part of the conversation that is happening in AI and in search, and you do that with your own content.  

The amount of money being lost is staggering as businesses watch their customers churn before their very eyes. Not because the competitor is better, but because their competitor shows up and they don't.

Make it make sense...

What's the main reason you are not putting YouTube front and center of your marketing plan for 2026?

I'd love to know.

ps. If you want the Founder's Playbook to win more leads with YouTube AI, get it here: https://lnkd.in/gFTe_DHi

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For those who don't know me, I help business build their YouTube channel into a lead-generating engine with real frameworks and strategy without the "go viral" bullshit.

If you are tired of uploading videos and not getting the results you want, DM me and let's chat, especially as we head into 2026.

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