Ethan Evans—Retired VP of Amazon—shares advice on why manager support is essential, who managers promote, how you can be chosen, and takes live audience Q&A.

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About Ethan Evans:
In Ethan's 15+ years at Amazon, he led global teams of 800+ and invented wellknown businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

70+ patents.
Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 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.
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's LinkedIn:   / ethanevansvp  

Ethan's leadership development courses https://maven.com/ethanevans (live online) and https://ethanevans.mykajabi.com/ (ondemand)

This career talk was done in partnership with Maven as part of their Lightning Lessons. Ethan's live online Maven course—Stuck at Senior Manager How to Break Through to Executive— was named the Top Course in Leadership & Career on Maven and was featured in the Maven 100 (top instructors and courses). Learn more about the course here: https://maven.com/ethanevans/breakt...