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Amanda Haverkamp is a Senior Program Manager at Amazon, where she has spent nearly nine years leading large-scale operational programs that have eliminated billions of dollars in preventable costs across North America's fulfillment network.

She currently leads Cross-Mile Continuous Improvement, a program that equips Amazon leaders with the Lean and continuous improvement tools needed to drive world-class operational performance.

Prior to that, Amanda built and led Amazon's NA Quality concessions and damage reduction programs from the ground up. With a team of just three program managers, she identified $4 billion in opportunity costs and delivered $1.4 billion in verified savings over four years — work that directly improved the experience of hundreds of millions of Amazon customers.

Before Amazon, Amanda served as Director of Operational Excellence at M&I Electric, where she owned engineering, quality, and program management for a $100 million business. She holds a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Indiana University Southeast.

Amanda's impact extends beyond the P&L. When she joined Amazon, she was the only woman on a team of 30. Within three years, the team reached 40% women — with 90% of those women personally mentored or identified by Amanda. She has mentored over 100 people throughout her career, with more than 35% earning promotions during their time working with her. She sponsored several women's organizations at Amazon, the Black Employee Network (BEN), a sustainability affinity group, and served as the manager of a DEI Program Management team for five years, creating employee-led groups that reached over 2,000 people. Amanda is a passionate advocate for workplaces where every person is free to be themselves.

You can connect with Amanda by reaching out to her on Linkedin here. Amanda shared the following resources for women who may be interested in becoming an Engineer:

1. Book Recommendation: “Emotional Intelligence 2.0” by Dr. Travis Bradberry and Dr. Jean Greaves.

2. Six Sigma Program

3. ASQ Program

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Alexis Robinson is a Principal Product Manager for Amazon in the DC area and Adjunct Professor for California State, San Bernadino, and her alma mater, University of Maryland.

For the past 15 years, she has served buyers of the cloud, retail sellers, policy makers, compliance organizations, engineering leaders, and security teams by developing and implementing security strategies, collaborating for thought leadership, solving problems, building products, and conducting cybersecurity, engineering, and financial assessments. She co-hosts the Resilience By Design Podcast on youtube with Dr. Cynthia Sutherland and has described it as a Podcast where Cybersecurity tech and mental health collide. appollonia-chronicles.com/ She graduated with double Bachelors of Science degrees in Accounting and Information Systems from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park and an Executive Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Quantic Program. She has worked at several companies including CGI Federal and Ernst & Young before finding her way to Amazon. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

You can connect with Alexis by reaching out to her on Linkedin here. Check out her YouTube channel, Resilience by Design Podcast. Check out the below resources if you are interested in a career in Tech product management:

1. Book Recommendation: “Inspire-How to Create Tech Products Customers Love” by Marty Cagan.

2. Learn the Software Development Lifecycle

3. Business Course Recommendations: Statistics and Strategic Leadership

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For over 15 years, Luna Battalia has been a Leadership Mentor and Business advisor.

She's the founder of Caru Creative, a full-service brand studio. Additionally, she created a psychology-driven approach to marketing, called Animist Branding™, which is shaped by her experience at the intersection of digital marketing and buyer psychology.

Luna partners with leading mission-driven women entrepreneurs who are building a personal brand world that reflects the depth and impact they lead with.

Through her messaging + AttractionBrand™ strategies, she helps clients transform their voice, build legacies over businesses, and communicate with bold, unignorable confidence. She does this through her 1:1 work and a suite of self-paced digital products.

Luna calls Austin and the PNW home, which feels so appropriate, given that Crystal lives in Austin, and I am in the Seattle area.

You can connect with Luna by following her on Instagram. Check out her company’s website on www.lunaloveleadership.com. Here are 3 tips that Luna shared on the podcast:

1. Get a Mentor!

2. Listen to your intuition (internal whispers).

3. Don’t take advice from someone who’s telling you what your journey should look like but, more someone who can help guide you towards making that decision on your own.

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