SHINE: THE CIRCLE
Take Control of Your Career.
Attract More Opportunities.
Make a Bigger Impact.
SHINE is a private executive advisory community for senior executives ready to build the reputation, positioning and strategic relationships that create career opportunities.
- Australia 2026 Founding Cohort | Limited to 12 Members
- Doors Close: August 30, 2026
Executive careers have fundamentally changed.
AI is changing how value is created.
Organisations are being redesigned.
Competition has never been greater.
The rules that built successful executive careers ten years ago are no longer enough.
Performance still matters.
But performance alone no longer creates opportunity.
The executives creating the greatest career freedom aren’t waiting to be discovered.
They’re deliberately building reputations that attract opportunities consistently.
Today’s executive market rewards leaders who are recognised beyond their employer.
Because boards don’t hire resumes.
They hire confidence.
Executive search firms don’t recommend capability alone.
They recommend people they know, trust and can confidently put forward.
Your reputation has become one of the most valuable career assets you’ll ever build.
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Know they are capable of operating at a higher level
- Want a larger mandate or greater influence
- Aspire to executive, C-suite, board opportunities or portfolio career
- Want to be recognised beyond their current organisation
- Want to become the obvious choice for larger mandates.
- Want greater control over your career instead of relying on organisational decisions.
Whether you’re pursuing a promotion, planning a career move, building a portfolio career or positioning for future leadership opportunities, SHINE provides the strategy, access and momentum to accelerate your progress.
How Many Opportunities Is Your Reputation Creating?
Where are you today?
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Recognised Industry Leader | One of the names people think of when opportunities arise in your field. SHINE is designed to help you move up the ladder. |
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Recognised Executive | Known across your organisation and broader professional network as someone capable of larger mandates. Regularly approached for opportunities. |
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Trusted Leader | Successful and respected, but opportunities have slowed. |
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Overlooked High Performer | Delivering results but not attracting the opportunities your capability deserves. |
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Invisible Expert | Capable, experienced and respected — but largely unknown outside your immediate circle. |
The Cost of Staying Invisible
Every year you stay known only inside your organisation, you risk:
- Missing executive search opportunities
- Losing influence
- Becoming vulnerable during restructures
- Watching less capable people become more visible
- Limiting your earning potential
Performance compounds.
But reputation compounds faster.
SHINE: THE CIRCLE
SHINE isn’t about becoming better at your job.
It’s about becoming known by the right people for the value you already create.
Over six months, you’ll implement the SHINE Framework™—a proven system designed to help senior executives become recognised, influential and sought after for bigger career opportunities.
The SHINE Method™
Leverage Expertise
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Stay Relevant
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Become Known
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Build a Trusted Reputation
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Create Career Control
Designed to Accelerate Your Executive Career at Every Stage
Executive Strategy Session
A private strategy session with Sarah before the program begins.
Together you’ll clarify:
- Your goals
- Your positioning
- Your opportunity gaps
- Your six-month acceleration plan
Career Acceleration Masterclasses
Each month you’ll learn the strategies that help capable executives become recognised, trusted and consistently considered for larger opportunities.
Topics include executive visibility, strategic networking, reputation capital, stakeholder influence, thought leadership, career positioning, executive search and becoming the person opportunities naturally find.
This isn’t theory. It’s the playbook used by senior executives to accelerate their careers.
Monthly Group Coaching
Every month you’ll join a confidential strategy session where we tackle the real challenges senior leaders face—from navigating organisational politics and influencing stakeholders to positioning yourself for promotion or preparing for a career transition.
You’ll leave every session with clarity, direction and practical actions tailored to your situation
Executive Brand Photography
Professional executive photography that ensures your executive profile reflects the calibre of leader you are.
Whether it’s a recruiter, board member, executive search consultant or future employer, people will often form an opinion before they ever meet you.
You’ll receive professional executive photography that reflects the leader you’ve become—not the role you’ve outgrown.
Careers move at the speed of relationships
Your next opportunity is unlikely to come from submitting another application.
Throughout SHINE you’ll build relationships with ambitious senior leaders, executive peers and influential decision-makers who can open doors, share opportunities and become part of your long-term professional network.
Because careers move at the speed of relationships.
Learn From Leaders Who've Done It
Throughout the program you’ll hear directly from senior executives, board directors, executive recruiters and recognised industry leaders.
They’ll share the decisions, strategies and lessons that helped them build influence, lead at the highest level and create career opportunities most people never see.
Direct Access When
It Matters Most
Executive careers don’t wait until the next coaching session.
Whether you’re preparing for a board presentation, navigating organisational politics, responding to an executive recruiter or making an important career decision, you’ll have direct access for guidance when you need it most.
An Executive Network That Continues Beyond the Program
One of the greatest assets you’ll leave with isn’t just a stronger profile—it’s a network of ambitious senior leaders who continue to support, challenge and champion one another long after the program ends.
Because executive careers aren’t built alone
Two One-on-one Strategy Reviews
Two individual sessions during the program to review progress, overcome obstacles and refine your approach.
Podcast Positioning & Feature
Develop thought leadership and expand your visibility through strategic opportunities.
Cohort Dinner
An exclusive in-person networking and connection experience.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Members don’t leave with more knowledge. They leave with more career momentum.
- stronger positioning
- Greater visiibility
- Relationships that consistently create opportunities
- Increased executive recruiter attention
- larger opportunities
Most importantly:
They stop chasing opportunities. Opportunities start coming to them.
ABOUT SARAH MAKRIS
Sarah Makris is a Executive Positioning Advisor. who helps senior executives become recognised executives., expand their influence and unlock larger leadership opportunities.
Drawing on more than two decades advising executive teams across financial services and other complex industries, she understands how reputations are built, opportunities are created and careers are accelerated.
As creator of the SHINE Framework, Sarah helps leaders strengthen their market profile, build strategic influence and become the obvious choice for bigger roles, broader mandates and greater impact.
INVESTMENT
SHINE: THE CIRCLE
Strategy
Reputation
Influence
Includes:
- Private Executive Strategy Session
- Monthly Masterclasses
- Monthly Group Coaching
- Two Private Strategy Reviews
- Executive Photography Day
- Podcast Feature
- Guest Experts
- Marco Polo Access
- Networking Challenge
- Cohort Dinner
$7000 or $1250/month
Payment plans available.
READY FOR A BIGGER MANDATE?
Membership is by application only.
SHINE is intentionally limited to twelve executives.
Not because of scarcity.
Because the quality of the room matters.
Every application is reviewed personally.
Every member contributes.
Every relationship has the potential to create opportunities long after the program ends.
If accepted, you’ll join a carefully selected cohort of senior executives committed to building reputations that create lasting career advantage.
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