Learn actionable skills for top performance in VP, SVP, & CXO roles:
Strategic Influence, Scale Talent, Executive Presence
6 hours of on-demand video recording
What's In the Course
Strategic Influence - The Steward Role
Moving up to the C-suite means going beyond strategic planning. You must develop strategies, vision, and thought leadership that make the business better.
Scale Talent - The Conductor Role
Use the skills of principles, processes, and people engagement to demonstrate the mindset of a conductor for your company.
Scale Talent - The Coach Role
An emphasis on guiding/coaching a high-performance team. How do you select high-level leaders and make them great in only the small bits of time you have?
Executive Presence - The Energizer Role
A particular focus on navigating through the highly political world of the top. Leaders who make it to the C-suite are excellent communicators.
Cracking the C-suite:
How to Get and Master Key Executive Roles
What will you learn?
Strategic Influence - The Steward Role
- How to think strategically and be seen as an influential leader who enhances the whole company in 3 ways: Explore/Know, Translate, Message
- How to see around corners (e.g. think long-term and have a multi-year approach)
Scale Talent - The Conductor Role
- How to influence and optimally lead large teams in 3 ways: Principles, Processes, People Engagement
- How to become a scaled deep leader, change agent, and trusted decision maker
Scale Talent - The Coach Role
- How to teach your directs how to coach in 3 easy steps: Rapport, Assess, Re-frame
- How to manage your organization to execute with little oversight, take calculated risks, and deliver results
Executive Presence - The Energizer Role
- How to develop and demonstrate executive presence and confidence in 3 ways: Gravitas and Grace, Humor + Stories, Superpower
- How to cultivate peer relationships and inspire your followers
Bonus Material
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Prework articles and actions.
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100+ page electronic “Living” Resource Guide from Mariposa Leadership
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Class slides as a PDF
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20% off all Ethan's career development on-demand courses
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20% off 1-1 executive coaching from Mariposa Leadership
About your instructors
ETHAN EVANS
Amazon Vice President, retired after 15+ years; 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+
Ethan 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, 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 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.
SUE BETHANIS, ED.D.
Executive Coach & CEO/Founder, Mariposa Leadership; coached 400+ tech executives + has led the Mariposa team for 27+ years
Susan J. Bethanis, Ed.D., is the CEO/Founder of Mariposa Leadership, Inc., a 15-person San Francisco- based firm, which provides executive coaching and design thinking to high-tech leaders.
Sue is the author of the well-received business book Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage (Kaplan Publishing, 2004) and hosts the popular show WiseTalk, a monthly leadership forum, and WiseSpace, a Zoom coaching community.
Sue regularly facilitates strategy offsites and delivers keynotes on influence, coaching, and innovation. Most recently, Sue has been focused on supporting executives to pivot strategies and enhance culture given the Hybrid/Remote work environment.
Using real-time, relevant business issues, Sue helps executives:
- Energize their leadership skills that results in increased influence across the organization.
- Energize their leadership teams that results in increased engagement, motivation, and productivity.
- Energize their leadership creativity that results in innovative and sustainable organizational strategies, structures, and culture
Sue has worked with many Silicon Valley and San Francisco companies and non-profits, including C-level Executives and VPs at Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Credit Karma, eBay, GoFundMe, Guru, HPE, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, MongoDB, Monite, Paypal, Pinterest, Roku, Twitch, Yahoo!, Zuora, and Zynga.
Testimonials
Marcelo
Vice President, Global Product Marketing at Visa
”Loved the presenters and found the content, discussions and frameworks to be highly applicable to my current and future leadership roles."
Choon
Senior Director of Product Management at Workday
”This course distilled over 50 years of collective leadership experience from Ethan and Sue into a concise 6 hours of content. Packed with practical frameworks condensed into easily digestible segments, it provides immediately applicable tools for daily leadership growth. I emerged with fresh perspectives on conveying executive presence through intentional awareness of how my actions shape others’ sense of value and belonging."
Angie
Head of Sales, Enterprise at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
”Uplevel yourself with the skillsets and framework to make the jump into the C-Suite. This course gets straight to the point while providing ample time for coaching, questions and networking among a group of highly successful leaders across the industry. Walk away with actionable next steps to get you from here… to there."
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Cracking the C-suite:
How to Get and Master Key Executive Roles
Learn actionable skills for top performance in VP, SVP, & CXO roles: Strategic Influence, Scale Culture, Develop Talent, Executive Presence.
This course is for Directors, Senior Directors, and VPs from all disciplines who have the ambition and confidence to crack the C-suite. Also applicable to startup Founders and anyone in CXO roles wanting to maximize their leadership impact with the right skills.
6 hours of on-demand video recording.
Note: Ethan and Sue taught the first version of this course in February 2024 on the Maven platform via a live online class. This video recording was produced from that to create an on-demand version. Thus, in the video recording, Ethan and Sue reference peer networking, peer coaching, breakout groups, coaching sessions, chat messaging, sign-up surveys, and Maven ratings. Those references are for the live online class via Maven and are not part of this on-demand video recording course. Click here to see the details and differences from the live online class version on Maven.
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