​​​​​<a href= "https://levelupwithethanevans.substack.com/p/level-up-career-community" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">​​​​Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members</a> and the <a href= "https://mariposaleadership.com/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">Mariposa Leadership Community</a> were invited to join this live event with Ethan Evans 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. ​Sue was Ethan's executive coach when he was an executive at Amazon/Twitch. 00:00 Introducing the Topic and Speakers 01:25 Sue's Background and Experience 03:04 The Importance of Executive Coaching 03:50 Ethan's Personal Coaching Journey 07:48 Key Areas of Focus in Executive Coaching 16:08 Maximizing the Coaching Relationship 30:06 Career and Transition Coaching 41:53 Securing Sponsorship for Coaching 42:21 Making a Business Case for Coaching 42:36 The Importance of Organizational Stewardship 44:16 How to Ask for Coaching 45:43 Exploring Company Coaching Programs 46:30 Confidentiality in Coaching 47:31 Personal Experiences with Coaching 53:15 Deciding Between Company-Sponsored and Self-Paid Coaching 56:55 Choosing the Right Coach 01:13:02 The Importance of Feedback 01:19:57 Conclusion and Contact Information About Ethan Evans ​​​​​​​​​​​​​<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanevansvp/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Ethan</a> 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. <ul> <li>​​​​​​​​70+ patents.</li> <li>​​​​​​​​Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.</li> <li>​​​​​​​​Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.</li> <li>​​​​​​​​Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (<a href= "https://levelupwithethanevans.substack.com/p/thats-not-my-job-how-i-wrote-a-part" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">read the story</a>).</li> </ul> ​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 <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanevansvp/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">LinkedIn</a> and join his <a href= "https://levelupwithethanevans.substack.com/p/level-up-career-community" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Level Up Newsletter & Community</a> to get ongoing career advice and leadership networking access. ​​​​​​Check out Ethan's website: <a href= "https://www.ethanevans.com/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">https://www.ethanevans.com/</a> 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: <ul> <li>​Energize their leadership skills that results in increased influence across the organization.</li> <li>​Energize their leadership teams that results in increased engagement, motivation, and productivity.</li> <li>​Energize their leadership creativity that results in innovative and sustainable organizational strategies, structures, and culture</li> </ul> ​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 <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/suebethanis/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">LinkedIn</a> and explore <a href= "https://mariposaleadership.com/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">Mariposa Leadership</a>. 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, <a href= "https://maven.com/ethan-evans/cracking-the-c-suite" target= "_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Cracking the C-suite 'How to Get and Master Key Executive Roles'</a>. ​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 <ul> <li>​Illuminate your executive presence with “Pick your moments, NOT your battles.”</li> <li>​Optimize your coaching with your directs with “Stop solving all your leaders’ problems.” </li> </ul> ​(8) A powerful network. Network and cultivate peer relationships with other high-performing leaders. <a href="https://maven.com/ethan-evans/cracking-the-c-suite" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Applications are open for the next cohort, October 5-6, 2024.</a>

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