Corporate Workshops
I’ve facilitate workshops for companies to help high-potential leaders and teams improve communication and increase impact
Keynotes
I am available for both virtual and in-person speaking events and cover topics related to leadership, executive presence, and navigating bias and stereotypes minorities face.
Team Coaching
I help executives support their teams to move faster and deliver higher impact through a combination of 1:1 coaching and team workshops.
With Reforge
Ever received feedback about needing more executive presence? Unsure of what it entails or how to develop it?
Join Yue Z., a seasoned Chief Product Officer turned Career Coach, in a discussion about how to improve your formal and informal authority within an organization, and get practice tips to improve your communication style.
With Shriti at Guild Education
Building your brand, finding your superpowers. Q&A about my wine e-commerce startup, my favorite wine, creativity, and design thinking.
With Reforge
It's performance review season, and here's a hard truth: the employees who did the best work or took one for the team aren't always the ones who get promoted.
The people who do the most widely recognized impactful work, month over month, are. So how do you become a better self-advocate for your work if you feel shy about it or don’t want to brag?
With Coach Nancy Chu
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How to effectively communicate at scale
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Imposter syndrome and why we self-sabotage
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How and why executives put companies first
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How to look for an amazing coach
With Sue on WiseTalk
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Ways to demonstrate executive potential and land stretch assignments
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The challenges minorities face — overcoming biases and stereotypes, finding role models
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How to create opportunities with sponsorship, networking, and making smart job changes
With Vidya & Heather on Product Rebels
I share my journey in product leadership and my thoughts on essential skillsets for product leaders as well as advice for breaking through barriers in the corporate world.
With Tom on the Fireside PM Podcast
Yue Zhao former CPO, big tech product leader, and now career coach shares about the unique role of CPO as well as challenges facing female tech executives and strategies that can help them reach their goals.
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How to work with me
Popular topics:
* How to build teams that index on individual strengths
* Executive presence & communication
* Overcoming stereotypes and challenges as a minority leader
* Building relationships and influence to increase your effectiveness
* How to do more with less through effective delegation
* Supercharge your career by leaning into strength-based growth
Target audience:
High potential leaders, extended leadership teams, executive teams, Women and Minorities leaders, Tech and Tech adjacent organizations, and Venture firms.​
The Uncommon Executive
Breakthrough to the C-Suite as a minority
One of the most challenging, emotional, and time-consuming topics that come up in career conversations is how to break through from middle management into executive levels –VP or C-Suite. It is one topic where I get consistently bombarded with doubt, confusion, and fear.
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This book seeks to provide a path forward through that doubt and confusion and be a guide for aspiring executives to follow in their journey to the top. It shines a light on what being an executive truly entails, what hiring committees look for, and what skills are truly critical for success. It then offers off-the-beaten-path (e.g. not white-male-centric) examples and tactics on landing stretch assignments, overcoming biases and stereotypes, finding your superpower, and finding role models in less obvious places.