How to Get Support for an Executive Coach, and Make the Most of It — Ethan Evans & Sue Bethanis
About the Event
Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members and the Mariposa Leadership Community are invited to join this live event with Ethan and Sue Bethanis discussing "How to Get Support for an Executive Coach, and Make the Most of It" followed by a live audience Q&A.
Backstory: Ethan and Sue
Sue was Ethan's executive coach when he was an executive at Amazon/Twitch.
Topics of discussion:
Why do executives seek coaches?
What did Ethan get out of having executive coaches?
What did Ethan work on as an executive and what does Sue see executives working on the most?
What is Sue's approach to executive coaching?
How do executives get the most out of each session and in the full six months?
How do you get an executive coach? And what should leaders be looking for?
What do you consider when deciding to go through the company or self-pay?
How do you make the business case for coaching internally?
Audience Q&A.
Register to join live.
The event will be video recorded and shared on Ethan's YouTube channel.
About Ethan Evans
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.
70+ patents.
Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.
Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (read the story).
Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.
Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.
Follow Ethan on LinkedIn and join his Level Up Newsletter & Community to get ongoing career advice and leadership networking access.
Check out Ethan's website: https://www.ethanevans.com/
About Sue Bethanis, Ed.D.
Susan J. Bethanis, Ed.D., is the CEO/Founder of Mariposa Leadership, Inc., a 15-person San Francisco- based firm, which provides executive coaching and design thinking to high-tech leaders.
Sue is the author of the well-received business book Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage (Kaplan Publishing, 2004) and hosts the popular show WiseTalk, a monthly leadership forum, and WiseSpace, a Zoom coaching community.
Sue regularly facilitates strategy offsites and delivers keynotes on influence, coaching, and innovation. Most recently, Sue has been focused on supporting executives to pivot strategies and enhance culture given the Hybrid/Remote work environment.
Using real-time, relevant business issues, Sue helps executives:
Energize their leadership skills that results in increased influence across the organization.
Energize their leadership teams that results in increased engagement, motivation, and productivity.
Energize their leadership creativity that results in innovative and sustainable organizational strategies, structures, and culture
Sue has worked with many Silicon Valley and San Francisco companies and non-profits, including C-level Executives and VPs at Amazon, Apple, Cisco, eBay, EqCA, Expedia, GoFundMe, Google, Guru, HPE, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, MongoDB, Monite, Paypal, Pinterest, Roku, Twitch, Workday, Yahoo!, and Zynga.
Connect with Sue on LinkedIn and explore Mariposa Leadership.
Cracking the C-suite 'How to Get and Master Key Executive Roles'
If you’re already in executive roles (e.g. Director, Sr. Director, VP) and want to optimize performance or move up further, consider Ethan and Sue's live online course, Cracking the C-suite 'How to Get and Master Key Executive Roles'.
What you’ll get out of this course
(1) How to stand out and influence. Learn how to stand out strategically so you can influence the direction of your company.
(2) How to scale up and develop talent effectively. Scale up and coach your team and make them great in small bits of time.
(3) How to demonstrate Executive Presence. Upskill your communication style and messages to inspire your organization.
(4) Optimized actionable advice for Directors & VPs who want to get a higher executive role, internally or externally. Content is developed by Ethan's experience as an Amazon Vice President with input from Ethan & Sue's network of executives, coaches, VCs, army officers, and startup founders. You will get specific examples from Sue’s coaching clients.
(5) Learn from Ethan's personal stories (not theory). Hear Ethan's break through experience first hand and learn from the specific actions Ethan took with his direct reports to help them break through to the C-suite.
(5) Learn from Sue’s real examples (not theory). Hear how Sue helped executive clients succeed and how she demonstrates executive presence leading her Mariposa team.
(6) High emphasis on case studies. Ethan and Sue built cases based on real-work examples. Example: “How to you shift your knowledge-base toward what your CEO values most?”
(7) Dive deep group discussions
- Illuminate your executive presence with “Pick your moments, NOT your battles.”
- Optimize your coaching with your directs with “Stop solving all your leaders’ problems.”
(8) A powerful network. Network and cultivate peer relationships with other high-performing leaders.
Applications are open for the next cohort, October 5-6, 2024.