What Your Manager Won't Tell You: The Art of Managing Up — Fireside chat with Wes Kao
About the Event
Level Up Newsletter paid members are invited to join this live event where Wes Kao and Jason Yoong will discuss the art of managing up.
Topics of discussion:
Key principles when managing up.
Finesse when managing up to intense senior executives.
What people (even top performers) get wrong about managing up.
Tips to level up your strategic communications.
How to manage lean teams with big goals.
Live audience Q&A (raise your virtual Zoom hand and ask).
Register to join live.
The event will be video recorded and shared on Ethan Evans' YouTube channel.
About Wes Kao
Wes Kao is an entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and advisor. A few highlights:
Co-founded Maven, a platform for live online courses. Raised $25M from First Round & Andreessen Horowitz.
Co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin.
Advised CEOs of Section (Professor Scott Galloway), Outlier (co-founder of Masterclass), and Morning Brew on go-to-market, positioning, and growth.
Now Wes works with founders and senior leaders via 1:1 executive coaching, typically in areas like setting a high bar of excellence, leveling up your strategic communication, and managing lean teams with ambitious goals.
Wes also writes at newsletter.weskao.com (read by 40,000+ high-performing leaders, operators, and marketers).
About Level Up
Level Up is your source for career growth solutions & community by retired Amazon Vice President, Ethan Evans.
Paid member benefits:
Private Slack leadership networking community + networking events.
Member-only events:
Ethan live executive coaching a real client.
Ethan’s career talks (topic-specific) and Q&A.
Career Q&A with Ethan.
Fireside chats with leaders and domain experts.
Ethan’s career book club (includes live debrief, sometimes with the author).
Ethan’s new 1:1 paid coaching offer exclusive to members.
Note: Ethan charged $1500/hour for 1:1 coaching but was so oversubscribed we closed the waitlist.
Video recordings of all events.
Every issue of the newsletter (~8 per month).
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Jason Yoong is the operating partner (and ex-Amazon).
Check out Ethan's website: https://www.ethanevans.com/