Unleash Your Superpowers: Chart Your Path To Executive Leadership

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2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Chart your path to the executive level by leaning into your leadership superpowers. Find environments that value you for who you are.

Product Executive and Leader At

Meta
Thumbtack
Instagram
Fuzzy
McKinsey & Company

Course overview

Chart Your Path to Executive Leadership Through Focusing On Your Strengths

Doing a lot but not getting noticed?

Feeling stuck in place?

Wondering whether you should stick it out or head elsewhere?


Learn how to tailor your work to best leverage your leadership superpowers.

Did you know that at the highest levels of leadership, companies are often looking for spiky talent, not "well-rounded" leaders?

Shift your mindset. Ruthlessly prioritize your time to focus on the work that helps you stand out.


When you align your work to your superpower, you'll deliver more impact, get noticed, and move up into executive leadership fast.


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Focus on strength-based growth

* Take your leadership strengths and what you love to do and turn them into your superpower

* Learn real-life examples of superpowers of famous executives like Fiji Simo, Steve Jobs, and more.

* Know potential pitfalls (or “shadows”) of your superpower

* Manage multiple superpowers and adapt them to different leadership roles


Craft your career trajectory

* Craft your pitch for projects that showcase your superpower

* Turn your superpower into your personal brand

* Ditch the work that isn't getting you ahead.


Get promoted

* Build a positive cycle of delivering impact and advocating for your work

* Incorporate your superpower into performance reviews and promotion processes


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When you reach a certain level in the workplace, it is no longer about shoring up your weaknesses.

Instead, focusing on your strengths will get you further, and faster.


Learn how to align your work to your superpower and career progression not only possible, but inevitable.


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What you will learn

* Map your superpower to the type of projects and work environment that uniquely values your strengths.

* Prioritize how you spend time and what projects you take on

* Learn how to delegate or say "no" to projects that fall outside your superpowers

* How to advocate for your wins and build your personal brand

* Translate your superpower into a strong promotion narrative.


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Course content is based on Yue's personal experience leveraging her leadership superpowers to get promoted from PM to CPO in less than 15 years, landing mission-critical roles at Tier 1 startups and Meta alike. She also leveraged her superpowers to transition industries from consulting to product management to venture capital.


Alumni from: Slack, OpenAI, Instacart, Guild Education, SurveyMonkey, Paypal, Braze, Meta, Instagram, Thumbtack, Sequoia-backed Tier I Startups, Google, Capitol One, Figma, Microsoft, and more.


Well-loved and Effective

A version of this course was run on Reforge with 90% promoters for the content and 98% promoters for the instructor.


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This is one of three Maven courses by Yue designed to help women and minority leaders fast-track to the C-suite.


* Mastering Executive Presence & Communication: https://maven.com/yuezhao/execpre

* Chart Your Path to Executive Leadership: https://maven.com/yuezhao/superpowers

* Self-Advocacy and Influencing Upwards: https://maven.com/yuezhao/selfadvocacy


For more, Yue also runs The Uncommon Executive Leadership Launchpad, an 8-week leadership transformation program that helps women and minority leaders fast-track to executive levels. The program covers the topics above and adds additional topics like sponsorship, relationship building, and building sustainability in your career. It also combines curriculum with coaching and community in a way you will not find anywhere else.


Check out the full program here: https://www.yuezhao.coach/accelerate


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Who is this course for

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Leaders with more than 4 years of work experience in their industry looking to hone in on an area of strength.

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High-achieving leaders who want to deliver more impact while raising the bar for their team.

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Leaders who want to figure out what type of company or work is the best fit for their strengths and leadership style

What you’ll get out of this course

Discover Your Leadership Superpowers

Are you a turnaround guru? Visionary leader? Team builder? Are you uniquely able to see the special talent in others? Stay extra calm under pressure? Follow a proven method to identity your superpower based on your strengths and passions.

Supercharge your impact at work - become irreplaceable and get promoted

Startups look for visionaries. Scaling growth companies look for seasoned operators. Work with me to transition to projects and places where you'll be invaluable to the business.

Build your personal brand to land a stretch role

Learn tactics to advocate for your business impact and wins. Get feedback from myself and the community on your personal brand -- the external articulation of your superpower.

Decrease your stress and improve your work-life balance

Superpowers help you deliver more impact with less work. Learn tactics and frameworks to improve your energy flow throughout the day, recharge quickly between meetings, and maintain a sustainable workload while taking on stretch projects.

Get personalized feedback (not just theory)

Get tailored support throughout the course through projects and live Q&A sessions. Hear directly from Yue how she aligned her superpower to her career, landing her in the C-suite and a 7-figure income in 15 years.

This course includes

2 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

10 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

4 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Feb 3—Feb 9

    Finding Your Superpower

    4 items

    Feb

    6

    Session #1: Finding your Superpower

    Thu 2/65:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

    Building Your Personal Brand

    3 items

Week 2

Feb 10—Feb 14

    Feb

    13

    Session #2: Applying Your Superpowers

    Thu 2/135:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

    Harnessing Your Superpower

    3 items

    Time Management and Delegation

    2 items

    Shadows of Your Superpower

    2 items

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Meet your instructor

Yue Zhao

Yue Zhao

Yue is a Chief Product & Technology Officer turned career coach for aspiring executives. Her mission is to help women and minority aspiring executives reach the C-suite. She is a part of Women In Product, AWCC, and Reforge and has coached hundreds of senior leaders since 2016.


Prior, she was the CPO and CTO at Fuzzy Pet Health, PM manager at Meta and Instagram, and first PM at Thumbtack. Outside product, she has dabbled with a failed wine startup, early-stage venture capital in healthcare, and consulting with McKinsey and Company.


Yue has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.


Check out her other Maven Courses (www.maven.com/yuezhao) and The Uncommon Executive Leadership Launchpad (www.yuezhao.coach/accelerate)

Free resource

Discover Your Superpower

Your superpower is a strength that makes you stand out as a leader. It is what you can do better than most as a leader. Superpowers often start as innate preferences honed through experience. 


Take a short quiz to find your executive superpower and in what contexts it is most valued.


Take the Quiz

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

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Join an upcoming cohort

Unleash Your Superpowers: Chart Your Path To Executive Leadership

Feb24

$499

Dates

Feb 3—14, 2025

Payment Deadline

Feb 4, 2025
Get reimbursed

$499

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2 Weeks