Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive
9.3
(25 ratings)
4 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Learn the specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process to show you meet them.
Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive
9.3
(25 ratings)
4 Days
·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.
Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive
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
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Meet your instructor
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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