Join our Level Up Career Community
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 issue of the newsletter (~8 per month).
Access to a private Slack community with networking events.
Access to member-only content: Ethan’s Career Talk classes (includes live attendance with Q&A), watch Ethan live coach a real client, fireside chats with experts (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 issue of the newsletter
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. Example success stories:
Engineering Leader at FAANG: “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.”
Promoted from Senior Manager to Director (Fortune 10). She got the job offer in exactly 4 weeks of applying and said Ethan’s “Leadership Resumes That Get Results” on-demand course helped, specifically: “Reading his resume was super helpful to understand how an exec words their bullet points and what’s important to communicate. Understanding the importance of a summary that I didn’t have before - and how to craft it based on my experience + what the hiring manager is looking for. I also used the resume experience summary as the blurb for the hiring manager to get their attention immediately.”
Hired in a Director role: “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!”
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, and more.
3) Career Talks with Ethan
Topic-specific concise presentations. While these on-demand classes are available for purchase individually, they are all free to paid newsletter subscribers.
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.
Examples topics:
How to Get Your Ideas Heard
Executive 1:1s Using Them Well
How Being Unreasonable Drove Me to Amazon VP - Make Your Mark
In the below clip, Ethan explains how to maximize Executive 1:1 time (full video is 64 minutes):
4) Watch live executive coaching with a real client
Experience how executive coaching works and learn alongside my client (at a fraction of the cost).
In the below clip, Ethan explains the difference between a “Doer vs Relationship Builder”:
See what Amazon Director Omar Halabieh had to say:
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:
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.
Many subscribers expense this newsletter to their Learning & Development budget, use this email template to send to your manager.
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.