How to build Executive Presence

Hosted by Ethan Evans and Ethan Evans AI (EthanGPT)

Wed, Jul 9, 2025

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Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive
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What you'll learn

The New Rules of Executive Presence

Controllable Inputs to Executive Presence

Answers from Ethan and Ethan Evans AI (EthanGPT)

We will take audience questions and run them through EthanGPT first and then Ethan will add more insight.

Why this topic matters

Executive Presence is cited as a top 3 challenge high-performers face when trying to breakthrough to the executive levels because it is ambiguous, there is no checklist to tick off, and when they get feedback "You lack Executive Presence" or "You need to show more Executive Presence" it comes with no detail or advice.

You'll learn from

Ethan Evans

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

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.


  • Hold 70+ patents.
  • Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are mine.
  • 10,000+ resume reviews.
  • 2,500+ live interviews.
  • 1,000+ hires.
  • Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.


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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