Cat on a Rocket
The hidden curriculum of corporate life, made clear
Cat on a Rocket is a Career Club for ambitious professionals in the first 10 years of their careers.
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What Cat on a Rocket is
Work does not come with an instruction manual.
You are expected to understand how decisions are made, how promotions really happen, how to speak up without over-explaining, and how to build a career that actually moves.
Cat on a Rocket helps you learn the parts of corporate life that are rarely taught out loud.
It is for early-career professionals who are capable, ambitious, and ready to be more intentional about how they grow.
Career firsts
For the career firsts no one properly prepares you for
Your first serious interview.
Your first promotion conversation.
Your first salary negotiation.
Your first time managing someone.
Your first difficult stakeholder.
Your first brush with burnout.
Your first realisation that doing good work is not always enough.
Cat on a Rocket helps you navigate those moments with more clarity, confidence, and practical tools, so you can stop guessing and start making more intentional career moves.
What you'll learn to navigate
You will receive ideas, tools, and guidance to help you:
- Understand the unwritten rules of corporate life
- Prepare for career, promotion and salary conversations with more confidence
- Advocate for your work without feeling awkward
- Build confidence in meetings, feedback, and decision-making moments
- Spot what matters for growth, not just what keeps you busy
- Make clearer choices about your next step
No faff. No ambiguity. Just the stuff people usually have to learn the hard way.
MEET Yulia
Founder of Cat on a Rocket.
About the founder
Meet Yulia, the founder of Cat on a Rocket.
Yulia is an award-winning Banker turned certified and accredited Life Coach and Educator.
Before founding Cat on a Rocket, she built a successful career in banking, advised highly successful clients, led strategic work across six jurisdictions, and managed a team generating £1bn a year in new business.
She created Cat on a Rocket because ambitious professionals are often expected to understand how work life really works without ever being properly taught.
Through coaching, education, and practical career development, Yulia helps people in the first 10 years of their careers navigate work with more clarity, confidence, and direction.
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No spam. No fluff. Just career insight with a little rocket fuel.
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