How To Frame Your Ideas So They Are Heard

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How To Frame Your Ideas So They Are Heard

Hosted by Yue Zhao

Thu, Jul 31, 2025

6:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Thu, Jul 31, 2025

6:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

Free to join

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Unleash Your Superpowers: Chart Your Path To Executive Leadership

Yue Zhao

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What you'll learn

How self-advocacy can 10X your impact

Doing the work is not enough. Learn why it matters to build new strategies and take initiative to drive change.

Common mistakes leaders make when trying to be heard

Learn what people think matters and what truly matters when it comes to landing your ideas. Hint: it's not the data.

Two simple frameworks to 10X buy-in even when you disagree

Learn how to quickly the framing of your approach to put the other person first and lower their defensiveness.

Why this topic matters

When it comes to transitioning from "high-performer" to "leadership", landing new ideas and projects up, down, and sideways across the organization is a critical skill. Learn how to go from "Yes I'll get it done" to "Here's what we need to do."

You'll learn from

Yue Zhao

CPTO, Founder, Author, Executive Coach

Yue Zhao is a Chief Product and Technology Officer turned Coach who helps women and minority leaders break through to the C-suite. She has coached hundreds of aspiring executives since 2016, is an instructor at Reforge and Maven, and is the author of The Uncommon Executive: Breakthrough to the C-suite as a Minority.

Prior, Yue spent 15+ years as a product executive in Silicon Valley. She was the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Fuzzy Pet Health, PM manager at Meta and Instagram, and first PM at Thumbtack. She has also been a VC-backed founder, venture partner at LifeX Ventures, and a consultant at McKinsey and Company. Yue has an MBA from Harvard Business School and B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

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