A client can value your advice and choose not to implement it. For a Tian Ji–Tian Liang Travel Palace reading, distinguish the service you provide from the authority you hold.
Tian Ji traditionally suggests planning and adaptation; Tian Liang adds experience and principles. An advisory role is one possible modern interpretation of the combination in external dealings. The placement itself does not grant professional competence or control over a client.
Imagine a consultant who identifies a factory's workflow problem. Management accepts the analysis but lacks staff and funding to act. The diagnosis and the implementation have different owners. Calling the whole outcome “a failure to be valued” overlooks that distinction.
Define the engagement
A single consultation, a continuing advisory role and a job leading the redesign carry different responsibilities. Use the Career Palace discussion to describe your actual role, alongside the Travel Palace's external relationships.
For an annual question, also identify which time layer supplies the Travel Palace. State where the project stopped and who could authorize the next step. That gives a traditional interpretation something concrete to address instead of simply calling you a strategist.