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5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Learn actionable specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process to show you meet them.
This course is popular
35 people enrolled last week.
4.7 (189)
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Learn actionable specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process to show you meet them.
This course is popular
35 people enrolled last week.
15+ years at Amazon; retired Amazon VP
Course overview
COURSE CONTENT:
17.5+ total hours of content: 7.5 hours of on-demand video lectures for self-learning followed by 10 hours of live sessions which include an intense weekend of live Q&A and peer networking plus 4 weeks of dedicated implementation follow-up workshops (implementation advice, Q&A, and peer accountability and networking groups).
BONUS:
1) (From Ethan): By enrolling, you will get a 1-year subscription to Ethan's Level Up paid newsletter comped at the end of the course ($170 value).
2) (From Maven): When you enroll in this course, you’ll receive $1,395 in free credits to level up your workflow with Superhuman, Linear, Sprig, Dovetail & Gamma (see FAQ for details).
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 1,000 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).
Many leaders buy this course for their team: Citing it is a big net positive for an organization by up-leveling team skills with practical and actionable insights. Multiple executives and leaders have bought 10+ seats for their direct reports / team.
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.
Alumni success stories:
- “What was key was that I actively participated in the live course AND followed through with some participants afterwards to talk shop and build relationships. One of those relationships just happened to be able to help when I needed it. Simply adding connections wouldn’t have been successful as they would have had no context about me, and not enough trust to put me in touch with important people in THEIR network.” — Landed FAANG Role
- “When I took the ‘stuck at sr. manager’ course, Ethan mentioned that he knows that everyone wants to get promoted and wants it now but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a big deal (paraphrasing, of course) since he knows us high performers are going to get there. Oddly, that comment didn’t make me lazier (“I guess i’ll get there anyway, so why try so hard”) but it grounded me a bit to take a breather and realize that it is not as urgent as I think it is and take the challenge (wanting a next level title) in stride!” — Promoted to Director
- “I give so much credit to the Level Up: Breaking through to the Executive course and getting a front seat to Ethan's coaching and wisdom. Thank you for working to build this community that has given me to confidence to reach even in the current market environment! It is my dream role and I'm so grateful for the opportunity.” — Promoted to Director
- “I am excited to share that I got promoted to Director and I sincerely thank and appreciate your help on this. I was not able to break through the barrier to Director level, partly due to constant changes happening in the company at leadership and strategies. I continued to apply my learnings from the community to influence the cross functional teams. Leadership was seeing the adaptability that I exhibited in continuing to add business value in new role and I was starting to get positive feedback from the VP on my flexibility. If I have to just pick one thing across all of Ethan’s teachings that helped me the most, it is being PROACTIVE. I am very grateful for your help and I really appreciate the learnings I have got as part of your community and your course on Stuck at Senior Manager. It really helped me to achieve this big milestone in my career. I thank you and Jason deeply as this promotion was very close to my heart." — Promoted to Director
TOP MAVEN COURSE
- Top Course in Leadership & Career
- Top Instructor in Leadership
- Featured in Maven's Executive Track
- Featured in Maven's Fast Track
- Featured in Maven 100
- Featured in Lenny's List
WHO THIS IS NOT FOR:
- This is not for you if you want 1:1 coaching from Ethan.
- This is not for you if you believe you already know what it takes to demonstrate executive performance and how to manage the promotion process.
- This is not for you if you want a slower-paced course over several weeks. This course provides in-depth on-demand lectures for self-learning to then maximize the 2-day intensive live Q&A sessions with Ethan. It is designed for busy leaders who want to get the information and then quickly take action.
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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.
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Many leaders buy this course for their team to help uplevel their skills with practical and actionable insights.
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This is not for you if you want 1:1 coaching from Ethan.
How to get promoted to Executive
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.
How to manage your promotion process
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.
Optimized actionable advice for Senior Managers who want to get promoted
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.
Learn from Ethan's personal stories (not theory)
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.
You will be in great company
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.
6 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
12 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
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.
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Ameesh was also ex-Google VP, ex-OfferUp CTO, Atom Tickets CoFounder & CEO, ex-Amazon Director
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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17.5 hrs of on-demand content + live Q&A
IMPORTANT
Hybrid format class
Mix of on-demand video recordings and live online Q&A and peer networking.
Bonus — Prework Video Recording (90 minutes)
You will also get a 90 minute video recording from Ethan that covers:
(1) Prework goals:
(2) Prework actions:
Prework — Video Recorded Lectures
Self-paced; Available starting Dec 18
7.5 hours of self-learning on-demand video recorded lectures. Watch all before the first live online Q&A with Ethan.
Saturday, January 11 - (Session 1) Live Q&A & Peer Networking
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM US Pacific Time
Note: Before this session, watch the video recording of Ethan's lecture "Personal, Team, & Company Level Executive Performance"
Optional to attend (but recommended)
Sunday, January 12 - (Session 2) Live Q&A & Peer Networking
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM US Pacific Time
Note: Before this session, watch the video recording of Ethan's lecture "Managing the Promotion Process to Win"
Optional to attend (but recommended)
Friday, January 24 - (Session 3) Live Implementation Workshop
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US Pacific Time
Optional to attend (but recommended)
Thursday, January 30 - (Session 4) Live Implementation Workshop
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US Pacific Time
Optional to attend (but recommended)
Thursday, February 6 - (Session 5) Live Implementation Workshop
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM US Pacific Time
Optional to attend (but recommended)
Friday, February 14 - (Session 6) Live Implementation Advice, Q&A, Networking
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US Pacific Time
Optional to attend (but recommended)
Video Recordings will be Available
All live 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.
Maven's Satisfaction Guarantee
Maven's Satisfaction Guarantee offers a full refund within 14 days after the course ends if you meet the completion criteria:
Otherwise, no refunds starting Dec 18, 2024 (when Student Portal opens).
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"
I breakdown my advice, share personal "How to" stories, and answer live audience questions.
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Scott Huson
Yiyang Hibner
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