Emily Levada
CPO @ Embark
Emily is a customer-focused, collaborative and creative senior product exec focused on delivering value through delightful & intuitive ecommerce products and tools. She has a track record of success driving change management through rapid scaling. She is also a passionate people manager, coach, and community leader who excels at building a sense of belonging among teams.
Domain Expertise: Product
Career Experiences: Embark, Wayfair, Amazon
Most passionate problem sets:
Connecting with customers emotionally
Building the plane while flying in fast scaling environments
User generated content and community building with customers. Making shopping experience both rich with content and simple!
Creating psychologically safe and trusting environments for teams
Charities Supported: ASPCA, Americans for the Arts, PJ Library
💪🏽 COACHING COURSES
1x1: Becoming a Trusted Leader
Most people learn how to build trust as an individual contributor through engaged 1-on-1 interaction or by proving trustworthiness through the quality of their work. These strategies don’t scale as you become a senior leader. Learn from Emily how to become a leader viewed as trustworthy, approachable, and accessible.
$2,500 per month
(Typically two sessions per month + prep work + followup email/text time)
Group Session: A learning mindset
Wishing you could describe your organization as growth-minded, risk-tolerant, resilient, and creative, but just not quite convinced? Learn key frameworks from Emily for evaluating your team and improving team dynamics that drive these critical aspects of success. Build an organization where growth and learning are central to success!
2 hours
$325 per person
⭐ CORE VALUES
1. Strengths-based Leadership & Individualization
2. Transparency
3. Collaboration & the power of an Ensemble
4. Community & Ritual
5. Servant-Leadership
🧒 INTERESTS
🐕 Passion areas: Human behavior (consumers, kids, organizations, and more), dogs & dogsledding, science fiction, coffee & tea, pilates.
📚 Favorite books: The Art of Community (Vogl), Deep Work, Good Talk, Empowered, Radical Candor, Ender’s Game
🎹 Fun goals in 2021: Learn to bake bread, teach my kid to play piano