How to ask for what you need & what to do if you get a 'no'

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 Princip

I retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to allow me to foc

I am an engineering executive with 15+ years of experience at Google and Stripe. I grew my own career from internship to directorship with 5 promotions in 10 years at Google. I also got Superb and Outstanding ratings for most of my time at Google. 

I truly believe that setting yourself apart with bold strategies is the way to have an accelerated career in a competitive landscape. I now coach leaders from top tech companies to be outstanding.

I have given multiple talks (Women TechMakers, Ethan Evans Level Up Community) and written guest posts (Google Blog, High Growth Engineer, Path To Staff) on many of my unusual career growth strategies.

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My popular course Outstanding: Get the Ratings, Recognition, and Spons is rated 4.7/5 and the next cohor