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Executive Presence Killers: Stop Holding Yourself Back

Hosted by Ethan Evans

Thu, Jan 22, 2026

12:00 AM UTC (30 minutes)

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Stronger Executive Presence: Be Visible, Gain Influence, & Drive Your Career
Ethan Evans and Jason P. Yoong
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What you'll learn

Stop being told "You lack executive presence"

Avoid these mistakes that undermine your credibility and influence

How to show up confidently in high stakes meetings

Get the insider POV on what it effective executive communication looks like

Live Q&A

Why this topic matters

Results alone won’t get you promoted. Executives look for presence, clarity, and confidence — especially under pressure and during times of crisis. That’s how they decide who’s ready for more.

You'll learn from

Ethan Evans

Former Amazon VP (15+ years); 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+

In Ethan's 15+ years at Amazon, he 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.


  • Hold 70+ patents.
  • Reviewed 10,000+ resumes and conducted 2,500+ interviews.
  • Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
  • Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's.


Ethan has 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.


Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.


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


Follow Ethan on LinkedIn and subscribe to his newsletter to get weekly advice to make your career breakthroughs.

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