The Silicon Valley Podcast

127 Always Giving with Amazon Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership & Chief Evangelist Richard Hua

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Richard Hua

Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership & Chief EQ Evangelist at Amazon

Proven leader with extensive experience in leading large, complex and globally distributed organizations. Developed and implemented innovative expansion strategies and groundbreaking programs across two continents. Possesses outstanding skill in evangelizing ideas, mentoring empathically, building teams and leading change initiatives, which transformed multiple organizations from bottom tier performers to top tier performers. Globally respected speaker with audiences as large as 10,000.

Consistent track record of exceeding expectations for revenue goals and achieving the highest levels of customer satisfaction. Spearheaded training programs to evangelize cloud solutions, both with internal audiences and with external customers. Regularly commended by customers and colleagues for ability to add value through technical knowledge, communication skills, and mentoring expertise.

Founded the Amazon Culture of Innovation program in the SF Bay Area and regularly present innovation briefings to senior executives of the world’s largest corporations. Launched emotional intelligence training programs at multiple companies which have impacted thousands of people across by enabling their professional, personal, and interpersonal success.

Highly refined ability to synthesize information and communicate insights and solutions. Utilized this skill to earn a perfect score of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Earned a Bachelor’s of Science with Honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Awarded the university’s most prestigious distinction, the Regents’ & Chancellor’s Scholarship.

On today Show we Talk about:

We dive into what is the Amazon “6 pager” and how it is used to propose a new idea?

What are the 4-pillars of innovation?

What is “Day 1” of the internet?

How should someone train their mind to make it through tough times?

Connect with Rich Hua

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhua/

richhua@amazon.com

richardhua.co  

Sam Wong

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-wong-startup/

sam@execmatters.com

https://www.fundablestartups.com/

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