Making >500k a year and coming from a blue collar family background. Not in project management but in a front office banking role which also requires a lot of client facing exposure as you grow more senior. For me, it was really about pushing and always doing the best you can. Clients on projects always have excellent feedback and enjoyed working with me because of the good advice and project delivery they received. That helped to tear down potential internal concerns about “can we present the guy to the client or will it make us lose business”. I have to say that my stuttering also gradually improved as I gained confidence and got more comfortable with certain situations, eg leading calls. Nevertheless, still very noticeable, I think I am lucky to with in a very meritocratic environment Not sure if it is helpful, but my takeaway would be: 1) let’s not BS ourselves, we have an obvious disadvantage when we are assessed. We have to do the job better and work harder to be seen at the same level. That’s maybe not fair but it’s the reality. 2) this is more difficult of an advice as it’s very specific, but try to consciously become comfortable with situations to which you are exposed more frequently. Smile, be bold - hopefully, that will impact your stuttering and make you more fluid. When company’s see that you are more fluid today than yesterday in specific situations such as leading call, they are more likely to reward you with progress. Even of it is still very noticeable, it’s more about the relative improvement. And yes, you will still have bad days and that’s okay.