Join our Level Up Career Community
Your source for executive insights, high performance habits, and specific career growth actions: newsletter, private community, member-only content (Career Talks, live executive coaching), and more.
I'm excited to announce our new Level Up Career Community, your source for executive insights, high performance habits, and specific career growth actions that includes a newsletter, live events with me and other experts, Career Talk classes with Q&A, a private community for leadership networking, and more.
Paid member benefits:
Every newsletter issue (~8/mo).
Private Slack community (800+ members) with networking events.
Exclusive content: Ethan’s Career Talk classes, live executive coaching with Ethan (and apply for free coaching yourself), fireside chats (we’ve had Olympic gold medalists, C-suite Fortune 500 executives, rocketship startup founders), and more.
Use this expense template to ask your manager. Many members get the newsletter reimbursed as an L&D expense.
More details on each benefit:
1) Every newsletter issue (~8/mo)
Free subscribers get ~4 issues a month.
Paid subscribers get ~8 including in-depth articles plus weekly Friday emails with upcoming member-only events, recordings, Slack conversations, surprise benefits, news, and more.
2) Private Slack community with networking events
Engage and connect with other ambitious high-performers.
We host 1-2 virtual networking events a month to spark introductions.
Success stories:
“I did get my L7 promo after that talk :)”
— Promoted to Senior Manager (Amazon)
“I give so much credit to the Level Up: Breaking through to the Executive course and getting a front seat to Ethan's coaching and wisdom. Thank you for working to build this community that has given me to confidence to reach even in the current market environment! It is my dream role and I'm so grateful for the opportunity.”
— Hired in a Director role
“When I took the ‘stuck at sr. manager’ course, Ethan mentioned that he knows that everyone wants to get promoted and wants it now but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a big deal (paraphrasing, of course) since he knows us high performers are going to get there. Oddly, that comment didn’t make me lazier (“I guess i’ll get there anyway, so why try so hard”) but it grounded me a bit to take a breather and realize that it is not as urgent as I think it is and take the challenge (wanting a next level title) in stride!”
— Promoted to Director (Fortune 10)
“I am excited to share that I got promoted to Director and I sincerely thank and appreciate your help on this. I continued to apply my learnings from the community to influence the cross functional teams. Leadership was seeing the adaptability that I exhibited in continuing to add business value in new role and I was starting to get positive feedback from the VP on my flexibility. If I have to just pick one thing across all of Ethan’s teachings that helped me the most, it is being PROACTIVE. I am very grateful for your help and I really appreciate the learnings I have got as part of your community and your course on Stuck at Senior Manager. It really helped me to achieve this big milestone in my career. I thank you and Jason deeply as this promotion was very close to my heart."
— Promoted to Director (Big Tech)
“What was key was that I actively participated in the live course AND followed through with some participants afterwards to talk shop and build relationships. One of those relationships just happened to be able to help when I needed it. Simply adding connections wouldn’t have been successful as they would have had no context about me, and not enough trust to put me in touch with important people in THEIR network.”
— Landed FAANG Role
Our Slack community includes 10+ moderated channels by domain experts on topics including external executive roles and how to get them, product management, finance business concepts, AL + ML + Data, resume reviews, System Design study groups, and more.
3) Career Talks with Ethan
Career Talk classes are topic-specific presentations by Ethan. While these classes are available individually for purchase—all are free to paid newsletter subscribers ($354 value).
Click here to access the Career Talks catalog.
To get the coupon code, go to the Level Up Newsletter site and click "Paid Member Content" at the top bar. You will see the coupon code in that member-only article.
Popular talks:
Executive 1:1s Using Them Well
Ensuring a Great Performance Review
Fighting Imposter Syndrome - Insights & Actions to Strengthen Your Mental Game
Watch the below clip where Ethan explains how to maximize Executive 1:1 time (full talk is 64 minutes):
4) Watch Ethan live executive coach AND apply for FREE live executive coaching yourself
Experience how executive coaching works and learn alongside my client (at a fraction of the cost).
Newsletter paid subscribers can also apply for free 1:1 live executive coaching on a rolling basis. Community members selected include a Director of Engineering and a VP of Product Management.
In the below clip, Ethan explains the difference between a “Doer vs Relationship Builder”:
5) Fireside chats with leaders
We will cover various career issues with leading figures from our network (Mine, Jason’s, and yours). Read takeaways and watch the full recordings below:
What Your Manager Won't Tell You: The Art of Managing Up with Wes Kao (Cofounder of Maven & altMBA)
Jeff Bezos once said that he wanted to make Amazon Prime such a good deal that it would be "irresponsible" not to join.
That is our goal with Level Up.
I have turned away people ready to pay for career coaching because I lack the time to coach more people. The community will be paid subscription-based because I will invest paid coaching time in creating live events and more in-depth writing for the community instead.
The new community is $17/month (or $170/year).
My standalone classes on Kajabi (on-demand courses) and Maven (live online classes) sell for up to $2495, so this is an incredible deal. My classes normally cost hundreds of dollars and my current coaching rate is $1500/hour, but now you will get a one-hour talk and other benefits for only $17, or $14.17 on the annual plan.
What paid members are saying:
“I did get my L7 promo after that 30 min talk with you :)”
“Finding good advisors is not so easy and I’ve found value in your content.”
“Every single post you have made has added value for me without fail.”
"I’ve been learning a ton from you. Feeling my promotion is closer than ever.”
“I was struggling to find beyond level opportunities as a Sr. EM. Once I started practicing the Magic Loop approach - specifically, where I decided to optimize for the business/org overlooking personal gains - executive leadership recognized me as a trusted leader and the opportunities opened up. Also, the Magic Loop approach has provided me with more job satisfaction.”
"I support your work because I can tell by what you share on LinkedIn that you have a deep understanding of the nuances of career success, and that you are passionate about sharing your experience and expertise with others. I appreciate both those attributes, greatly."
“Sudha was a fantastic presenter, I loved how quickly and clearly she answered complex questions.” — David Cottrell (Amazon Engineering Leader)
“This was probably the most important 1 hr of my career Ethan, thank you so much! I’m only a year late but I know that I got this from this point on.” — Tugce Kasikci, PhD (Senior Manager, Product Management — Telemetry & Observability at Capital One)
“The emphasis on practicing constructive feedback as a crucial aspect for the team resonated strongly with me. Additionally, your point on rewarding invisible work and prioritizing team success over external prestige is a perspective I deeply appreciate.” (read Sandeep Basavaraj’s full LinkedIn post).
"I think this was the best event to date. The tips were prescriptive yet realistic and with substance. Specifically: owning who you are and what you look like (and the nuances), how to operate in remote environments, and how to solicit feedback (and give it) on how to do better." — Dina Keilany (RVP at Oracle)
Contact Us
If you have questions or issues, message Jason Yoong (Ethan’s operating partner) on LinkedIn.
If you are a paid member and do not know how to join the Slack community, check your welcome email. If you cannot find it, message Jason.
Connect With Ethan & Jason
Follow Ethan on LinkedIn.
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Connect with Jason (Ethan’s operating partner) on LinkedIn.
Learn more about Ethan’s live online courses and on-demand courses.
Contact us for corporate training, speaking, podcast appearances, and more.
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Present! Looking forward to this new initiative.
This site is frustrating! I am a paid member but there is no instruction anywhere on this site to tell me where to get access to the paid member content.