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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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Sr. Director of Product Management & GM

Chief of Staff. Scaled Operations. 

Senior Manager

Senior Managing  Director, Product Development

Google

Bain & Company

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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.

Grow Your Executive Influence and Get Things Done

Eric Nehrlich

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

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

​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.

How you are limiting your career growth

Become an Executive in 2025

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.

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