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ICF ACC · IIM Bangalore · IBM · TATA · AT&T · Twenty-two years. · 400+ Coaching Hours.
I have carried quotas, led country P&Ls, and built teams that delivered at scale — across twenty-two years with IBM, TATA, AT&T, and global SaaS companies.
In 2025 I earned my ICF ACC certification — a credential held by fewer than 3% of coaches in India. What followed was the formalisation of a system I had been refining across 400+ coaching hours with senior professionals who were capable of more than their careers reflected.
Not motivation. Not inspiration. A repeatable, evidence-based system for finding the right role, positioning yourself precisely, and negotiating what your experience actually deserves.
The professionals who move fastest are not the most talented — they are the most deliberately positioned. I am also the creator of the Career Drag framework — the central idea behind The Top 1% Career Game.
The system works because it was built from the inside. Not observed from the outside.
Members of this community have navigated significant leadership transitions, salary movements, and career pivots across technology, FMCG, banking, consulting, and healthcare — using the same system.
Most career advice is optimised for people who are just starting out.
It tells you to network more, update your LinkedIn, and apply to more jobs. For a mid-career professional with fifteen years of experience and a specific ambition — this advice is almost entirely useless. The senior market operates on different rules. Roles are rarely advertised. Decisions are made before interviews happen. The professionals who move fastest are not the ones who work hardest — they are the ones who have learned to make their capability visible to the right people at the right moment.
Talent is not the bottleneck. Positioning is.
Every week in this community, the same pattern surfaces. A professional with fifteen, eighteen, twenty years of genuinely impressive experience — stuck. Not because they lack capability. Because no one ever taught them how to translate that capability into the language the senior market actually responds to. That translation is a skill. It is learnable. And it is almost entirely absent from how careers are managed in India.
The career you were always capable of is not behind you.
Top 1% Career Club exists to close the gap between what professionals are capable of and what their careers actually reflect. Through weekly intelligence, frameworks, a book, and — for those who want to go further — direct conversation with someone who has spent two decades on the inside of the system they are trying to navigate.
A weekly dispatch on what is actually happening at the senior end of the corporate market.
Written by Matiur Rahman. Read by professionals who take their careers seriously.
Three hiring managers I spoke to this week said the same thing — they are not looking for AI experts. They are looking for senior leaders who understand where AI fits in their function and can make intelligent decisions around it. The professionals who cannot articulate this are being quietly screened out at the first round.
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How to Escape Career Drag and Build the Career You Were Always Capable Of
Twenty-two years inside global corporations taught me one thing that no MBA covers — working hard is not a career strategy. The professionals who break into the top 1% are not the most talented. They are the most precisely positioned.
This book is the system I built, tested on myself, my family, and 100+ professionals. It covers the 3 career traps that keep ambitious mid-career professionals stuck, the exact framework for escaping them, and the step-by-step path to the career you were always capable of — written for professionals aged 30 to 45 who are done waiting for someone to notice how good they are.
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