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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In celebration of Maven naming my popular course Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive (1,000+ alumni, rated 4.7/5) “The Top Leadership & Career Course” we are offering 25% off. And, this is the first time in over a year where I will teach the course fully live with new updated content to match the 2025 environment and challenges.

Use code MAVENTOP25 at checkout.

This offer ends March 11.

(this is the biggest discount offered—thank you Maven for the support!)