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Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive

9.3

(25 ratings)

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4 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Learn the specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process to show you meet them.

Hosted by

Ethan Evans

Retired Amazon Vice President; 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+.

Course overview

Level Up from Senior Manager to Executive.

Course Content (6 hours live class):

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 to get scope

How to overcome obstacles and poor managers


Scope, team size, and consistent high-impact results are important...But are not enough. I will teach you what and how to prioritize the things that matter to executives.


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


With:

- Executive Presence handout by Mariposa Leadership (one of our recommended coaching options)

- Recommended coach list

- Class slides as a PDF

- Slack group to engage other members

- Invitation to join private LinkedIn Alumni Group

- 20% off all career development on-demand courses


Advice is based on Ethan's personal promotion experience from Senior Manager to Director to Vice President at Amazon 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 250 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).


Build your network and stay connected to course members via our private Course Alumni Group.


Alumni from: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Oracle, Salesforce, Red Hat, Affirm, eBay, Expedia, Groundspeed, Snapchat, Unity, Disney, McKinsey, Vimeo, JPMorgan Chase, Kohl's, Capital One, Warner Bros, and more startups & larger companies all over the world. Titles of course members range from Manager/Senior/Group/Principal to Director/VP/SVP/CPO.

Who is this course for

01

Ambitious Senior Managers from all disciplines at startups and large companies who want to become true executives.

02

Those managing large groups, managers of managers, including Amazon and Google L7/L8, Meta M2, and Microsoft 66/67.

03

Also applicable to Senior Individual Contributors (ICs - Principal at Amazon) and Managers of 2-5 reports.

What you will get out of this course

How to get promoted to Executive

We will dive deep into specific tactics on how to get promoted, what great looks like, 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, Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Oracle, Salesforce, Red Hat, Affirm, eBay, Expedia, Groundspeed, Snapchat, Unity, Disney, McKinsey, Vimeo, JPMorgan Chase, Kohl's, Capital One, Warner Bros, and more.



What does great look like?

What does great look like?

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.

Ethan's experience with the Senior Manager to Executive promotion

Course schedule

6 hours of LIVE class + bonus material
  • Monday, September 11 - Welcome & Pre-work

    8:00am - 9:00am US Pacific Time

    • Introductions & Welcome.
    • Pre-work (shared in advance): To help you identify your gaps and prepare to maximize course ROI.


    Recording will be available.

  • Tuesday, September 12 - Personal Executive Performance

    8:00am - 10:00am US Pacific Time

    • Lecture: What Your Personal Performance must be to earn a promotion.
    • How to know where you stand.
    • How to break out of being stuck.
    • Interactive Discussion.


    Recording will be available.

  • Wednesday, September 13 - Team & Company Level Executive Performance

    8:00am - 10:00am US Pacific Time

    • Lecture: What Your Team & Company Impact must be to earn a promotion.
    • How to develop executive presence.
    • How to get executive sponsors.
    • Interactive Discussion.


    Recording will be available.

  • Thursday, September 14 - Managing the Promotion Process to Win

    8:00am - 10:00am US Pacific Time

    • Lecture: How to manage the executive promotion process.
    • Getting the scope you need.
    • Overcoming blocks to promotion.
    • Interactive Discussion.


    Recording will be available.

9.3

(25 ratings)

What people are saying

        This course is an accelerant for any leader that wants a blueprint for how to advance their executive career in a large organization. Ethan’s insider view, which couples descriptive anecdotes with tangible, prescriptive guidance for navigating the challenges of professional life, has already given me actionable insights for taking the next step.
Matt Sussman

Matt Sussman

Head of Revenue Operations, AWS Professional Services
        I found this course really helpful even for a newer Sr. Manager. Ethan gives specific action steps and resources to operate at an executive level. I left energized with an understanding of how to immediately apply the lesson rather than, like many classes, wondering what to do next. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to grow.
Brittany Kucera Brown

Brittany Kucera Brown

Senior Manager, Product Management, Amazon
        Ethan delivers on his brand of truthful and pragmatic career advice that's brought to life with real anecdotes from his career.
Sandy Wong

Sandy Wong

Senior Manager, Airbnb

Meet your instructor

Ethan Evans

Ethan Evans

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 have reviewed 10,000+ resumes and conducted 2,500+ interviews.


Hold 70+ patents.


And I helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are mine.


I retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to allow me to focus on paying forward my good fortune to others. I now share my expertise in whatever form is most helpful - consulting, speaking, or individual coaching.


Prior to Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups.


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The Executive job is demanding and complex. That’s why good executives are rare and highly paid.


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