Teresa Vozza spent twenty years building the version of herself that got promoted — composed, capable, unshakeable. Then, in a boardroom, mid-promotion, her body gave out completely. She was wheeled out on a stretcher in front of the CEO she'd spent her career trying to impress.

That collapse became the beginning of a different kind of research: into why the coping strategies we build as children don't retire when we make VP. Little Kid in a Power Suit is Teresa's account of what she found — for herself, and for the hundreds of senior leaders she has since coached through the same reckoning.

Part memoir, part field guide, the book gives executives language for the patterns that survive every promotion: the hypervigilance mistaken for diligence, the people-pleasing mistaken for collaboration, the perfectionism mistaken for excellence — and a path back to leading from wholeness instead of performance.