4.7
(124 ratings)
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Learn actionable specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process to show you meet them.
15+ years at Amazon; retired Amazon VP
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20 people enrolled last week.
Course overview
Course Content:
Learn the Standards of Executive Performance
- How to know where you stand
- How to break out of being stuck
- How to develop and demonstrate executive presence
- How to gain executive visibility
- How to engage executive sponsors
- How the leaders above you are evaluated and thus how you can help them
- How to get scope, including during a flat or negative growth environment
- How to overcome obstacles and poor managers
- How to become a scaled deep leader, change agent, and trusted decision maker
- How to manage your team to execute with little oversight, take calculated risks, and deliver results
- How to think strategically and be seen as a influential leader who enhances the whole company
Learn How to Manage the Executive Promotion Process
- How to position yourself for promotion
- How executives assess promotion readiness
- Overcoming blocks to promotion
- How to deal with a manager who gives little feedback
- How to manage peers and sponsors
- How to win skip level support
- How to run the document creation process
Scope, team size, and consistent high-impact results are important...But are not enough. I will teach you specific actionable steps on how to prioritize the things that matter to executives.
Bonus material:
- Video recording of all live sessions available via Maven platform
- 90 minute prework video recording from Ethan detailing prework goals and actions
- Executive Presence handout by Mariposa Leadership (one of our recommended coaching options)
- Recommended coach list
- Class slides as a PDF
- 20% off all career development on-demand courses
Advice is based on Ethan's personal promotion experience from Amazon Senior Manager to Director to Vice President and diverse insights from his network of executives, coaches, venture capitalists, army officers, and startup founders.
Proven ROI for promotions and internal/external hires: Ethan promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.
More than 450 senior managers and leaders worldwide have taken this course (including engineering managers, senior product managers, general managers, head of partnerships and business development, design leaders, and directors/VPs who have also found the course applicable to their careers).
Alumni from: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Flexport, Oracle, Salesforce, Red Hat, Affirm, eBay, Expedia, Zillow, Groundspeed, Snapchat, TikTok, Unity, LinkedIn, Disney, McKinsey & Company, Vimeo, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Kohl's, Capital One, Warner Bros, Discord, IBM, Vimeo, Waymo, and more startups & large companies all over the world. Titles of course members range from Manager/Senior/Group/Principal to Director/VP/SVP/CPO.
Student testimonials:
- "Ethan unveils what every senior manager wants to know about what happens behind the scenes of an executive promotion, and how to position yourself as the best choice. Extremely insightful, transparent, honest, and resourceful. The value I got out of this program is 20x its cost." — Engineering Manager, Netflix
- "Ethan delivers on his brand of truthful and pragmatic career advice that's brought to life with real anecdotes from his career." — Senior Manager, Airbnb
- "Getting promoted into senior leadership at a big tech company is as much art, as science. Ethan offers practical and pragmatic advice, delivered with empathy while expecting accountability. His coaching on how to successfully escalate an issue to executive leadership by turning a problem into a business opportunity was a game changer for me." — Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon/Twitch
- "Ethan shares his approach based on his experience as an Amazon VP that you can measure yourself against. You can have a personal network to get this information. (I don't.) Or you can get it directly from this beautifully designed training. I found Ethan's advice extremely valuable." — Director of Engineering, On & Author “Drawn to Leadership”
- "Incredible straight talk without embellishment that is really insightful." — Senior Development Manager, Shopify
- "The straight truth in this course was refreshing and the real-life stories from an Executive like Ethan was like getting batting advice from Mike Trout." — Senior Manager, Fortune 100 Company
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Ambitious Senior Managers from all disciplines at startups and large companies who want to become true executives.
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Those managing large groups, managers of managers, including Amazon and Google L7, Meta M2, and Microsoft 66/67.
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Also applicable to Senior Individual Contributors (ICs - Principal at Amazon) and Managers of 2-5 reports.
We will dive deep into specific tactics on how to get promoted, what great looks like, the executive bar, how to build a reputation that signals you are an executive, how senior executives assess promotion readiness, and how to drive team and company-wide impact.
Learn how to stand out from your peers with specific tactics on how to better position and advocate for yourself, how to gain senior executive sponsorship, and how to influence the promotion approval meeting.
Course content is developed by Ethan's personal promotion experience from Senior Manager to Director to Vice President at Amazon along with input from Ethan's wide network of executives, coaches, VCs, army officers, and startup founders. You will get specific actionable advice.
Hear Ethan's break through experience first hand and learn from the specific actions Ethan took with his direct reports to help them break through to executive.
Alumni from: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Flexport, Oracle, Salesforce, Red Hat, Affirm, eBay, Expedia, Zillow, Groundspeed, Snapchat, TikTok, Unity, LinkedIn, Disney, McKinsey & Company, Vimeo, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and more.
3 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
6 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive
Week 1
Jun 13—Jun 15
Events
Fri, Jun 14, 12:30 AM - 3:00 AM UTC
Fri, Jun 14, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Sat, Jun 15, 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM UTC
Modules
Bonus
Modules
4.7
(124 ratings)
Kyle Downey
Emanuel (Manny) de Souza
Chaitali Shah
Greg Jennings
Sandy Wong
Dani McKenzie
Claus Höfele
Di Wu
Sonia Singh
Chirag Nirmal
Dan Li
Retired Amazon Vice President; now Coaching Leaders to become True Executives
In my 15+ years at Amazon, I led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.
I've promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of my former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.
I retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to allow me to focus on paying forward my good fortune to others.
Prior to Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups.
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Class is a hybrid format
Mix of on-demand video recordings and live online Q&A and peer networking.
Specifically:
Available starting May 29, 2024
You get two on-demand video recorded lectures (total of 5 hours of content):
1) "Personal, Team, & Company Level Executive Performance"
2) "Managing the Promotion Process to Win"
Watch both before the first live online Q&A with Ethan.
5:30pm - 8:00pm US Pacific Time
Note: Before this session, watch the video recording of Ethan's lecture "Personal, Team, & Company Level Executive Performance"
9:00am - 11:30am US Pacific Time
Note: Before this session, watch the video recording of Ethan's lecture "Managing the Promotion Process to Win"
10:00am - 12:30pm US Pacific Time
Bonus session.
You will also get a 90 minute video recording from Ethan that covers:
(1) Prework goals:
(2) Prework actions:
All live online sessions will be video recorded and made available to watch/rewatch at your own pace via the Maven Student Portal.
Thus, if you cannot attend the full time or need to drop off at any point, you can catch up and watch the video recording.
No refunds after the Maven Student Portal opens (making the on-demand video recording available) on May 29, 2024 at 6 AM US PST.
Personal Executive Performance
You must be a scaled deep leader, a change agent, and a trusted decision maker.
Team Level Executive Performance
Your team must execute with little oversight, take calculated risks, and deliver results.
Company Level Executive Performance
You must think strategically, enhance the whole company, and be known as an influential communicator and leader.
Your company process
Clearly know the required scope, time, calendar of promotion reviews, document contents and lead time, "Best reasons not to promote"
Executive level challenge
Executive need is determined by ambiguity, complexity, and impact
Role scope
Quantify the impact of role, complexity, autonomy, cross-functional work, and P&L ownership
High growth creates scope, but, we are in a low growth environment, learn what to do
Peers and sponsors
Learn how to effectively manage and win over peers, committee members, and sponsors
Document creation
Nail the section list, example document, and draft for your manager
Promotion review
Learn what happens in the meeting, cross-leveling, favoritism, the final review, and the importance of skip level support (and how to get it)
Final approval
Learn what to do and the common mistakes to avoid
"Strategically patient, tactically impatient"
Matt Sussman
Sripathi Ramadurai
Dipti Aswath
Jason Soo Hoo
Aderlei Coraini
Brittany Kucera Brown
Derek Yang
Scott Huson
Yiyang Hibner
Chuck Blevins
Tu Duong
Alan O'Beirne
Satish Murthy DS
Piotr Czech
Santhi Boppana
Andy Kane
Saranya Roy
David Tseng
Nicolas Aragon
Khola Khan
Evan Rossi
Tiffany Barnett
Brij Vora
Gregory Klets
Sagar Mukala
Olga Sharapova, PhD
Radha Coutinho
Qaseem Shaikh
Director
Prashant Tripathi
Senior Director of PM
Director
Senior Manager
Tech Leader
Senior Development Manager
Sr. Software Development Manager
Sr. Practice Manager
Senior Manager
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Sr. Manager SDM
Sr Software Development Manager
Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive: Cohort 4
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The Executive job is demanding and complex. That’s why good executives are rare and highly paid.
My course teaches you the specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process. Part of the performance standards includes what it means to be a trusted decision maker and a science-based process on how to make good decisions.
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Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive: Cohort 4
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