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Unleash Your Superpower: Scale Your Impact

3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

In a time of tight resources, lean into your leadership superpower to do more with less, and gain an edge over your competition.

Product Executive and Leader At

Meta
Thumbtack
Instagram
Fuzzy
McKinsey & Company

Course overview

Unleash your leadership superpower to accelerate your impact and get noticed

The days of high growth are behind us for now in many cases, so every company is scrutinizing the bottom line and figuring out how to do more with less.


Play to your superpowers to prioritize where you invest your time and energy to accelerate your impact and grow sustainably.


When you align your work to your superpower, you'll deliver more impact, get noticed, and move up in the organization faster and without burning out.


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Make Your Leadership Superpower Your Secret Weapon

* 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


Accelerate Your Impact and Get Noticed

* How to Overdeliver based on your type of superpower

* Build your influence and relationships through helping others

* Craft your pitch for relevant projects

* How to better work-life balance and avoid burnout while doing more


Get Noticed, Get Promoted

* Stand out and become irreplaceable at work

* Turn your superpower into your personal brand

* Step-by-step guide to building momentum and a positive cycle of performance and promotion

* Tactics on how to incorporate your superpower into performance reviews and promotion processes



Working hard and taking on more work is not going to get you ahead, or even avoid layoffs.

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.

Aligning your work to your superpower is what makes you irreplaceable!


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How we learn together

* Combines proven theory with real-world examples.

* Projects to discover and hone in on your unique leadership superpower.

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

* Adapt every aspect of how you work to maximize the effectiveness of your superpower.

* Translate what you can do exceptionally well into concrete actions and projects.

* Prioritize how you spend time, what projects you take on, how you delegate, how you approach building influence, and more.

* Translate your superpower into a strong promotion narrative. We will hone in on what makes you, you, and then showcase it to the world.

* How to advocate for your wins, build your personal brand, and ensure your superpower is recognized in performance reviews and promotions.


With 12+ modules, 7+ projects, and 2 live Q&A sessions, this course is a deep dive and masterclass on getting promoted through strength-based growth.


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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.


Proven method with 100+ clients and workshop attendees to increase your impact at work while decreasing stress and avoiding burnout.


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.

Who is this course for

01

Senior Managers, Directors, VPs, and entrepreneurs with more than 4 years of work experience.

02

High-achieving leaders looking to deliver more impact without burnout, and get noticed

03

Acceleration for job searchers who want to work on their narrative and personal brand to land their dream role in this difficult market

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

3 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

12 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

6 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

Jan 20—Jan 26

    Finding Your Superpower

    4 items

    Jan

    22

    Finding your Superpower

    Wed 1/225:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Jan 27—Feb 2

    Harnessing Your Superpower

    4 items

    Jan

    29

    How to Apply Your Superpowers at Work

    Wed 1/295:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Shadows of Your Superpower

    3 items

Week 3

Feb 3—Feb 7

    Building Your Personal Brand

    3 items

    How Superpowers Evolve

    1 item

    Time Management and Delegation

    3 items

    Feb

    6

    Optional: Live Q&A Session

    Thu 2/65:30 PM—6:15 PM (UTC)
    Optional

What people are saying

        This is so useful! I'm so glad I got up at 8 am to attend this session and workshop. I have a career conversation with my manager later to and I am putting this into practice now.
Sr Manager, Marketing at Slack

Sr Manager, Marketing at Slack

From a previous workshop on superpowers
        This is what I've been doing wrong! I've been feeling consistently tired at my job, which is objectively a great role. This course helped me chart a path to a different role without losing momentum.
Director of Product

Director of Product

Previous workshop at a Fintech

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.


Yue also teaches a course on Executive Presence and Communication on Maven: https://maven.com/yuezhao/execpre

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Payment Deadline

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Course schedule

4-6 hours per week

  • Thursdays each week

    9AM PST

    Focused discussions on the week's material and live Q&A.

  • Projects for Async Feedback

    2 hours per week

    Personal projects with each lesson are designed to apply theory and examples to your specific environment.

  • Well-loved, easy-to-digest lessons

    Self-Paced

    Refined and honed through workshops and classes taught at top tech and consumer companies, each lesson is packed with tactics and examples that are relevant and applicable to you and your workplace.

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

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

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

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Join an upcoming cohort

Unleash Your Superpower: Scale Your Impact

jan24

$449

Dates

Jan 20—Feb 7, 2025

Payment Deadline

Jan 22, 2025
Get reimbursed

$449

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