Level Up Career Talks: “How to Say You Stink…Nicely” with Ethan
What are Career Talks?
Career Talk classes are topic-specific presentations by Ethan. While these classes are available individually for purchase—all are free to paid newsletter subscribers ($354+ value).
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About this Event
Level Up Paid Newsletter Subscribers are invited to give Ethan a challenging / delicate message you need to deliver to someone (e.g. executive, skip, manager, peer, direct report, etc) and Ethan will share how he would deliver / phrase the message.
2 ways to give your message to Ethan:
Pre-submitted: Include in your RSVP form and we will take the best ones (you will be kept anonymous — so pre-submitted questions are a great way to get your burning delicate question answered).
Ask live: During the event, raise your virtual Zoom hand when Ethan gives the signal and ask live.
Notes:
Live attendance is exclusive to paid newsletter subscribers.
The event will be video recorded and made into an on-demand Career Talk class. Thus, by asking live, it will appear in the video recording and by doing so you agree to the appearance.
About Ethan Evans
Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where 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.
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 (read the story).
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.
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Check out Ethan's website: https://www.ethanevans.com/