• Lead a global initiative to help leaders optimize their mindset for innovation and high performance. The EPIC program trains executives in emotional intelligence and interpersonal dynamics skills so they can lead with greater Empathy, Purpose, Inspiration, and Connection (EPIC). This enables them to build more innovative, adaptable, and resilient cultures. It also supports Amazon's Leadership Principles of Earn Trust, Hire and Develop the Best, Customer Obsession, and Strive to Be Earth's Best Employer. • EPIC leaders are able to build teams with high trust, big vision, and psychological safety, resulting in employees who feel included, are engaged and creative, and perform at the highest levels. • Built a team of EQ Evangelists who have delivered EQ trainings to 350,000 Amazonians and 60,000 leaders at 8,000 AWS customers and partners. • Grew the EQ@Amazon community to 70,000+ members, making it the largest employee-based community at Amazon. • Serve as an advisor to Goleman Consulting Group (www.golemanconsultinggroup.com), the newest venture started by Dr. Daniel Goleman and Dr. Matt Lippincott to bring more EQ to organizations around the world.

• Create and execute global go-to-market strategy for the most advanced relational database in the cloud, Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL. Help customers achieve Database Freedom by migrating off legacy, old-guard commercial databases to modern, cloud-optimized ones. Enable sellers and technical account teams to deliver AWS's managed database solutions to customers.• Launched SF/Silicon Valley chapter of Amazon's Culture of Innovation program and delivered innovation briefings to 3500+ senior executives from all parts of the world. Formed strategic partnerships with leading change agents such as McKinsey, Bain & Co, and Silicon Valley Forum.• Founded Emotional Intelligence and Success initiative to upskill Amazonians in emotional and social intelligence and leadership capabilities. Delivered EQ workshops to 100,000+ Amazonians across numerous Amazon companies globally. Integrated EQ training into multiple onboarding, leadership and sales programs.

Enable startups and mid-market companies to succeed and grow with some of the most advanced cloud technologies in the world. Advise companies on how to accelerate innovation with AWS by leveraging technologies such as containers, serverless, data lakes, high performance compute and AI/ML. Founded Amazon Talks in SF office to inform, enrich and inspire fellow Amazonians. Helped develop on-boarding and mentorship program to accelerate success of new hires.

Goleman Consulting Group was founded by Dr. Daniel Goleman and Dr. Matt Llippincott. It offers services based on decades of independent research linking individual and team Emotional Intelligence to improved performance. It provides customized services that deliver the benefits of stronger EI to an entire organization. Their strategy focuses on leveraging real-time workplace feedback to improve the effectiveness of daily interactions. This helps strengthen the ability to influence others, make strategic decisions, and sustain high performance for the organization.Daniel Goleman is Senior Consultant. Daniel’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half, and has more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages. The Harvard Business Review called Emotional Intelligence — which discounts IQ as the sole measure of one’s abilities — “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea” and chose his article “What Makes a Leader” as one of ten “must-read” articles from its pages. Emotional Intelligence was named one of the 25 “Most Influential Business Management Books” by TIME Magazine. The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Accenture Institute for Strategic Change have listed Goleman among the most influential business thinkers.Dr. Matthew Lippincott is Founder and Owner. Dr. Lippincott has worked with Dr. Goleman for years to provide leadership and performance consulting services. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Emotional Intelligence initiative and EPIC Leadership program at Amazon, and has also provided services for Bank of America, Google, Gilead Sciences, KBC Group, MIT, IIM and others. Dr. Lippincott has also held corporate leadership roles, funded and led businesses, and is a certified leadership coach/coach trainer. He holds a Doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania specializing in leadership and EI.

Manage a team of pre-sales solution engineers in support of Oracle's Fortune 500 customers across North America. Work with customers to architect and implement all flavors of cloud solutions -- private, public and hybrid. Collaborate with senior sales leadership to develop and execute strategies and campaigns. Mentor and develop employees in technical knowledge and professional skills. Lead training program to promote engineering excellence among sales engineers in North American Enterprise Technology division. Train account executives, engineers, and sales managers in emotional intelligence skills. Serve as President of OracleDirect Toastmasters organization.

Solution specialist and pre-sales technical adviser to Oracle's Fortune 500 customers. Delivered product and solution presentations, led customer technical discovery sessions, held architecture discussions and provided technical training to sales force. Led soft skills training program for Solutions Engineers within North American Enterprise Technology division. Spearheaded multiple initiatives which improved customer engagement and generated millions of dollars in revenue. Served as an officer for OracleDirect Toastmasters organization.

Supervised large congregations in San Francisco Bay Area. Innovated ways to leverage technology and online resources to grow and improve the organization. Created and facilitated training programs for leadership development mentoring, and effective teamwork through emotional and social intelligence. Implemented strategic change initiatives within multiple congregations with dramatic results.

Planned and executed innovative program to restructure congregation to increase membership satisfaction, community impact, and growth. Planned and coordinated international summits attended by thousands of people across APAC. Organized thousands of volunteers to support the humanitarian efforts of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in special consultative status with the United Nations.