Ask a Chief of Staff: Growing From Your Core: Expanding What You and Your Team Can Achieve Without Breaking the System
🗓️ Join us on October 23rd!
Change is inevitable and the Chief of Staff is usually the tip of the spear. But navigating how to change without destroying what works today can feel like more risk than reward for your team and for yourself. In this AMA session open to the public, Ethan Summers, a Chief of Staff, former CEO and COO, and multi-time founder will share how he learned to navigate this challenge by planning, failing, learning, and trying again.
From co-designing the initial GTM strategy with his founder and principal, to designing the operating and GTM platform that scaled to earned $10M revenue and $6M profit in just 2.5 years to figuring out what needs to happen next for his team and his own career, Ethan will walk through how to navigate the long and winding road from where you are today to where you need to be while learning from obstacles, mistakes, and pivots along the way.
✅ You should attend this session if...
you're in a CoS role in a high growth venture and are struggling with what to do next;
you feel like your journey should be more of a straight line and less of a wandering path;
you've worked across many different industry segments and want to stitch it all together;
you're thinking about what's next: staying the course, finding another CoS role, or leading a business function.
🎟️ Please note, there will be a 100-person limit on this event. This event is not recorded.
🎙️ More about the Speaker
Ethan Summers is the Chief of Staff for Empirix Partners, a supply chain advisory that helps data center developers go online, on time. His experience there helped Empirix scale from founding in early 2023 through debt repayment, $5M profit in 2025, and a path to $10M+ profit in 2026. He has 13 years of venture development, go-to-market strategy, operations excellence, and team performance experience in manufacturing, healthcare, consumer electronics, and mission critical development experience spanning $50 billion organizations to being Employee #1. Ethan is known from integrating far-sighted strategic intent with thoughtful tactics and effective and efficient daily operations into systems that rapidly self-improve. He is currently a member of the Ask a Chief of Staff community.
💜 Ask a Chief of Staff
Ask a Chief of Staff is a premier executive search and career development platform dedicated to placing top-tier Chiefs of Staff and empowering professionals in strategic leadership roles. We serve ambitious professionals and high-growth companies by offering executive recruiting, mentorship programs, and career resources tailored to Chiefs of Staff. By addressing the lack of structured career paths for this role, we provide guidance, connections, and opportunities that accelerate leadership development and organizational success.
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