Erin Lewber

Building strategy. Developing talent. Driving growth.That’s the work - inside Amazon and inside the careers of the women I support.At Amazon Business, I lead Account Management for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, supporting Fortune 100–1000 customers. I manage a multi-layer team (leaders and ICs) and built global strategic account management strategy to close gaps in customer adoption and retention - creating a model now used worldwide.The work sits at the intersection of sales, consulting, and customer success:- solve complex customer problems- drive adoption and retention- build durable growth engines- develop high-performing teamsI’m consistently rated in the top tier of people managers at Amazon, based on daily team feedback.Outside of Amazon, I’m the founder of Erin Lewber Coaching - a boutique coaching firm supporting women in two key seasons:1) Career pivots + job search executionResume strategy, LinkedIn, interview prep, and momentum - supported by my coaching team.2) Executive advisory + strategic thinking partnershipFor women navigating complex career and leadership decisions - where getting it right matters. This is judgment-driven work, not templates or assessments. We lay the full situation on the table, pressure-test options, and move forward with clarity and confidence.If you’re navigating a pivot, promotion, or a decision that deserves real discernment, you’re in the right place.Focus areas: Sales leadership • Growth strategy • Strategic account management • Executive advisory • Leadership communication • Career pivots • Interview strategy • Women’s leadership

Head of Strategic Adoption, Sr. B2B Sales Leader

I lead a team of 12 to drive adoption of Amazon Business within AB's Fortune 1000 customer base.  

In this role, I've developed, launched, and scaled the Strategic Adoption role across Amazon Business.

If someone tells you that your resume isn't "ATS Compatible"....𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁.

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁, 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗧𝗦:

An ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is a glorified filing cabinet for recruiters.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀:
- organizes job postings
- organizes candidate profiles
- holds candidate resumes
- allows a recruiter to search the database and manage the various stages of the hiring process

A company's job posting page is the front end (user facing side) of that ATS.

When you apply and attach your resume, you're building your candidate record and attaching your resume to to your record in the ATS.

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘄, 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝘆 "𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲" 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰:

𝟭. 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗬𝗣𝗘
As long as you're submitting a supported file type (PDF, Word Document), your resume is going to go into the ATS. Probably safe to say you can't doodle a resume and submit it as a .JPG file, but I'm pretty sure you're not doing that anyway. So, you're good here.

𝟮. 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚
If you've formatted your resume with lots of columns and tables, it might not parse (that's mostly fancy talk for 'fill in the blanks for you on your application'). Typically, you'll be required to fill in the blanks to complete an application. So either your resume will do it for you...or you will do it. But either way, your info gets entered. So, you're good here, too.

𝟯. 𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦.
People selling "ATS Compatible" resumes are all about the keyword gimmicks. They'll tell you the ATS is going to scan your resume for keywords. Truthfully, an ATS *can* do that, but as long as you're writing a resume that talks about things relevant to the job you want...you're probably going to hit on those keywords anyway. So, there really isn't some sort of magic that can happen here. Just talk about stuff relevant to the job and give examples of how you were good at those things. This isn't Harry Potter level stuff.

𝟰. 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗘
That's right. There's the file type, the format, and the content and none of those things are going to cause the ATS to reject you or flag your resume as 'not compatible'.

These systems are built to take information from random people and make a recruiter's life easy...they aren't meant to be Fort Knox with a secret code to be cracked.

Which means..............people telling you that ATS Compatibility is your problem....are kinda sorta totally absolutely knowingly selling you a heaping pile of garbage advice.

And I think that's a rude thing to do to jobseekers 🧡

Head of Account Management, Amazon Business | Executive Advisory + Career Coaching for Women | Pivots, Promotions, High-Stakes Decisions

Justin Bateh, PhD, PMP

AI, Project Management & Leadership Expert & Founder | PhD, PMP | Award-Winning Professor & LinkedIn Learning Instructor | Helping operators lead projects, use AI effectively, and advance their careers.

Hi, I'm Justin 👋

I teach leaders and operators how to execute in the AI era and advance their careers.

20+ years of leading teams and making high-stakes decisions where failure wasn't an option. Along the way, I built repeatable execution and leadership systems that I've taught to thousands through top-rated courses, corporate training, and university programs.

But execution skills alone won't protect your seat at the table anymore. Companies expect faster decisions, measurable impact, and AI as part of how you deliver it.

That's what I share here. How to use AI as your superpower for execution and decision-making. Career growth advice for leaders who want to double down on the things AI can't replace. Execution frameworks that hold up under pressure. Leadership lessons learned the hard way so you don't have to.

No fluff. No busywork. Everything here is real, tested, and battle-proven from someone still doing the work today.    

*All views and opinions shared across my content are solely my own.

Founder

I teach Project & Operations professionals the skills to drive sustainable growth, change, and profitability using data-driven decision making, lean tools, six sigma methodologies, agile projects, and data analytics. I have worked with executives and managers from numerous organizations, including Walmart, Verizon, Amazon, Pearson, UPS, Wiley, Cengage, Medtronic, US Department of Health, CSX, USPS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Crowley Maritime, US Air Force, US Navy, Novartis, FedEx, McKesson, and many others.

Justin Bateh, PhD

You're Not Having a Bad Day. You're in a Toxic Culture.

(don't blame yourself for system failure)

You think it's you.

Your attitude. Your performance. Your inability to handle stress.

It's not.

It's the culture slowly destroying you from the inside.

Here's how to tell:

1/ Sunday Night Feels Like a Death Sentence
→ Dread starts hitting around 4 PM
→ Your stomach physically knots thinking about Monday
→ Weekend recovery time keeps shrinking
→ The anxiety owns you now

2/ You Second-Guess Decisions You Used to Make Instantly
→ Choices that were automatic now paralyze you
→ You seek permission for things you're expert at
→ Your confidence got systematically dismantled
→ Expertise feels like pretending

3/ You're Bone-Deep Exhausted But Sleep Doesn't Touch It
→ 10 hours of sleep feels like 10 minutes
→ You wake up more tired than when you went to bed
→ Your nervous system never gets to rest
→ Exhaustion lives in your bones now

4/ Walking on Eggshells Became Your Permanent State
→ You rehearse basic conversations like speeches
→ Every interaction is a potential landmine
→ Your real personality died somewhere along the way
→ Being yourself became too dangerous

5/ You're Always Somehow the Problem
→ Every failure mysteriously traces back to you
→ Blame rolls downhill and parks at your desk
→ Your solutions get ignored, your mistakes magnified
→ You've started believing it's true

6/ Your Body is Staging a Revolt
→ Headaches that no medication can touch
→ Shoulder tension that's become part of your skeleton
→ Stomach problems that doctors can't explain
→ Your body is screaming what you won't admit

7/ Colleagues Became Survival Competitors
→ Small talk feels like intelligence gathering
→ Nobody trusts anybody anymore
→ Collaboration turned into self-protection
→ Isolation became safer than connection

8/ Criticism Flows Like Water, Support Never Comes
→ Your mistakes get documented immediately
→ Your wins disappear without acknowledgment
→ Every feedback session feels like an ambush
→ Development is punishment disguised as help

9/ Your Voice Got Surgically Removed
→ Questions get labeled as "attitude problems"
→ Ideas get dismissed before you finish speaking
→ Speaking up became career limiting
→ Silence became survival strategy

10/ Every Single Day is Fight-or-Flight Mode
→ You're constantly braced for the next attack
→ Planning past today feels impossible
→ Hope for change died months ago
→ You're running on fumes and fear

11/ You Don't Recognize Who You've Become
→ The person you were doesn't exist here anymore
→ Your values got compromised one compromise at a time
→ Optimism rotted into bitter cynicism
→ You became someone you wouldn't want to know

This isn't about your ability to handle pressure.

It's about a system engineered to crush human spirits.

Toxic cultures excel at making victims blame themselves for the poison being administered daily.

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AI, Leadership, and Career Growth | Chief Editor @ Tactical Memo | PhD, PMP | Award-Winning Professor & LinkedIn Learning Instructor | I teach leaders and operators how to execute in the AI era & advance their careers.

7 Ways You're Training Your Team to Lie to You

(What leaders do that kills honesty)

Your team isn't dishonest.

You made honesty unsafe.

Here's how:

1/ You Punish the Messenger
→ Bad news gets met with anger
→ Problems become personal attacks
→ Transparency feels like career risk
→ So they stop telling you

2/ You Ask "Why Didn't You Tell Me?" After Explosions
→ You weren't safe to tell before
→ Retrospective blame doesn't build trust
→ Hindsight judgment creates fear
→ Next time they'll hide it earlier

3/ You Treat Mistakes Like Character Flaws
→ Errors become moral failures
→ Learning gets replaced with shame
→ Experimentation dies completely
→ Perfection becomes survival strategy

4/ You Say You Want Feedback, Then Get Defensive
→ "I'm open to input" means nothing
→ If criticism triggers justification
→ Your reaction trains them
→ They'll stop being honest

5/ You Reward the Yes-People
→ Promotion goes to agreement
→ Visibility goes to compliance
→ Challenge gets career consequences
→ They learn the game fast

6/ You Overreact to Small Issues
→ Minor problems trigger major responses
→ Proportionality doesn't exist
→ They calculate disclosure risk constantly
→ Hiding becomes rational

7/ You Make Them Watch You Shoot Messengers
→ Public criticism of others
→ Throwing people under the bus
→ Example-setting through punishment
→ They're taking notes

Your team tells you what you can handle.

Not what's actually happening.

Want the truth?

Become someone who can receive it.

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The Power of Someone Believing in You

98% of successful people share one thing in common:

(Thanks Justin Wright for inspiring this analysis)

Someone believed in them before they "made it."

Think about that.

Behind every breakthrough is someone who saw potential when there was no proof.

Not credentials.
Not experience.
Not a perfect track record.

Just raw, unproven potential.

And they bet on it anyway.

Maybe it was:
- A manager who gave you a shot you weren't "qualified" for
- A mentor who invested time with no guarantee of return
- A colleague who vouched for you in a room you weren't in
- A friend who reminded you of your worth when you forgot

That belief becomes the foundation of confidence.

It says: "You're capable of more than you think."

And here's the beautiful part:

You can be that person for someone else.

Look around your workplace today.

Who has the right attitude but lacks the opportunity?
Who shows up ready to learn every single day?
Who just needs someone to take a chance on them?

Don't wait for them to be perfect.
Don't wait for guaranteed success.

Bet on their potential.

Because someone once bet on yours.

Your legacy isn't just what you achieve.

It's who you help become who they're meant to be.

Who believed in you before you made it? And who needs you to believe in them today?

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