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Eric Nehrlich

Google Search Ads Chief of Staff from 2012-2019, now an executive coach for rising tech leaders

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It takes a different mindset to succeed as an executive. I have coached over a hundred executives to greater success over the past five years, and discovered three mindset shifts that are shared by executives from startup CXOs to directors at big-tech companies. 1) Results, not effort. You get judged by the results you create through others, not by how hard you worked. 2) Risk, then reward. Playing it safe slows down your career growth. 3) Clarity, then focus. You can't do it all, so you have to ruthlessly prioritize.

How to Unlock Your Executive Potential

In this chapter from my book, You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, I lay out the themes that drive my coaching approach: -- Change means letting go.-- How are you the problem?-- The only thing you control is your next action. -- You have a choice. I'd love to send you a PDF of that chapter so you can get a sense of who I am and how I think before you sign up for my course.

You Have A Choice introduction

Your continued career growth depends on changing how you work from what brought you success early in your career. 

Executive Coach, former Google leader

Eric Nehrlich 

ex-Google Chief of Staff, Executive Coach, Author of You Have A Choice

Scale Your Leadership with the Executive Mindset

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Early in your career:-- You are rewarded for working harder and independently solving problems.-- You earn more credibility by knowing more and demonstrating domain expertise.-- You get more scope (and promoted!) by taking on more with a “can-do” attitude. But your career will plateau unless you learn to:-- Build and lead teams and systems to solve problems rather than do the work yourself.-- Collaborate with other leaders to manage trade-offs across different domains.-- Deliver results through others by mobilizing and coordinating people across different functions and perspectives.This course is for you if you feel stuck in your job or career. Perhaps you are a senior individual contributor or a front-line manager who keeps getting passed over for the next promotion with feedback about being more strategic, or having more presence or influence. Or perhaps you have earned more scope but are drowning under the work, seeing no way to get it all done.

The next level of your career requires embracing new mindsets and skills.

Scale your leadership to create greater team and company impact

Increase your confidence and executive presence.

Greater influence across the leadership team. 

How to deliver on complex projects without control

Handle difficult conversations and political situations

A path for continued career growth without working unsustainable hours.

This course is for those who have grown through their early career, and want to grow their impact beyond what they can do as an individual.

10+ years of career experience

You're a senior IC or front-line manager wondering what you have to do differently to get to the executive level.

Your performance feedback no longer celebrates your expertise and effort, and instead focuses more on strategy, influence, and presence.

You are working harder and longer but falling further behind. Doing more isn't sustainable so you need to find a new way to get things done.

Learn the key ideas that will allow you to let go of what is no longer working and experiment to find new paths forward.

ex-Google Chief of Staff, Executive Coach, Author

Stop Hustling and Burning Out, and Take Control of Your Work and Life

Why work with me?

I design personalized learning programs for each client, so pricing varies depending on what you need. 

Executive Coach, Author, ex-Google Chief of Staff

Executive Coaching for Rising Teach Leaders

Do the Most Important Thing First

ex-Google Search Ads Chief of Staff, now an author and executive coach

Rather than let your day be driven by others, start each day with the work you choose.

Choose the work you focus on each day

Accepting more scope will lead to burnout unless you also find ways to distribute work.

Coach or influence others to share the load

When you lean into your strengths, you will get greater returns from the investment of your hard work.

Align your work with your strengths

Grow Your Executive Influence and Get Things Done

Former Engineer turned Google Chief of Staff, now an Executive Coach

Learn what drives success for executives, and use your insights to craft communications that grow trust.

Create Rapport with Executives

Get more headcount and budget by translating what you do into the numbers executives present to the finance team.

Build Powerful Business Cases

Once you show you understand what brings executive success, you will gain greater independence to focus on what matters.

Earn More Autonomy

Become an Executive in 2025

Executive Coach, ex-Google Chief of Staff, Author of You Have A Choice

If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll get the same results. Look for the next quantum leap, and go after it.

How to plan 2025 to dramatically accelerate your career

Executives think differently about risk to create more impact. Embrace uncertainty to raise your ambition.

Big leaps require greater risk.

More scope means more work. You need a plan for what you'll stop doing, or you'll end up burning yourself out.

You can't do it all, so what will you choose to do?

​Succeeding as an executive requires a completely different mindset than what brought you success early in your career.

How your job changes when you transition into leadership.

Your work is no longer about doing things yourself, but leading others to get the work done through communication.

How to operate differently to succeed as an executive.

It is difficult and uncomfortable to let go of what previously brought you success, and start over as a beginner.

Eric Nehrlich will transform the way you lead

Eric Nehrlich

About Eric

Courses

Scale Your Leadership with the Executive Mindset

Lightning Lessons

Do the Most Important Thing First

Grow Your Executive Influence and Get Things Done

Become an Executive in 2025

How to Unlock Your Executive Potential

Services

Executive Coaching for Rising Teach Leaders

Resources

Stop Hustling and Burning Out, and Take Control of Your Work and Life

How to Unlock Your Executive Potential

You Have A Choice introduction