Colleague keeps taking credit for my work in meetings. How to handle?

Been there, it's soul-crushing. What helped me most was building a direct relationship with my skip-level and other stakeholders so my work was visible beyond just this one colleague's filter. Don't let one person be the only channel between you and recognition. Widen your visibility.

Managers usually know more than you think. A decent boss can tell who actually does the work by asking one follow-up question the credit-thief can't answer. So keep being the person with the real answers. In my team the guy who kept presenting others' work got exposed the moment the director drilled into details he didn't understand. Substance wins long term.

Talk to him privately first, once. "Hey, I noticed the analysis I did came across as yours in the meeting, can we make sure we credit each other going forward?" Said calmly, it puts him on notice that you noticed without escalating. Some people do it out of habit not malice and will back off. If he does it again after that, then you go to your manager with a clear conscience.

Stop relying on the meeting to get credit and control the paper trail instead. Concrete moves that worked for me with a credit-stealer: 1) Send your work to the boss directly via email before the meeting, "Hi boss, sharing the analysis I did on X ahead of our discussion." Now it's timestamped as yours. 2) In the meeting, speak to your own work: "Yes, when I ran that analysis I found..." claim it verbally in a calm, factual way. 3) Cc relevant people when you hand things off so the origin is visible. I did this and within two cycles the boss knew exactly who did what, and the colleague quietly stopped because the trick no longer worked. Don't confront him publicly, you'll look petty. Let the documentation do the talking. If it persists, a private word with your manager framed as "I want to make sure contributions are visible" is fair game.