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Shane and I worked together at Amazon for about a year on nights in two separate departments. However, Shane’s positivity and collaborative nature made nights feel like one team, with the common goal of delivering for the associates and customers. For example, Shane would check-in with our team daily at the start of shift so we could communicate about how our teams could assist one another throughout the night. He would consistently follow-up with our team afterwards to ensure our efforts aligned, and discuss any plan deviations. Additionally, Shane’s ability to earn trust and develop leaders led me to model many of his leader attributes, most importantly in intentional development and celebration of leaders. For example, Shane allowed higher performing managers latitude to make decisions and assume responsibilities of his to provide them unique opportunities to learn the next-level role in their career development in a controlled environment. Additionally, whenever a leader moved on to other opportunities, not only was Shane integral in helping them obtain those opportunities, but he also celebrated their successes and contribution to the site through mini parties, where he would handout Little Debbie cakes and provide them movies and books he related to leadership to assist them in their next role. Finally, I was always able to rely on Shane to participate in site celebrations and initiatives. When I did not have any clothing to support the site’s Olympics-themed dress up day, he handed out gear to myself and other leaders to wear throughout the day so everyone could partake. Also, Shane was always by my side supporting advertising of Amazon’s mental health resources and charitable donation opportunities, serving associates meals, and leading our site through emergency situations. I am thankful for the time I was able to lead with and learn from Shane, and continue to appreciate his guidance and support today.

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Shane is a stalwart leader and as a peer it was invaluable seeing his leadership on display daily. As a new leader of leaders, I looked to Shane for an example of what building an inclusive and collaborative team could accomplish. His leadership style was multifaceted and he ensured his team was always displaying a winning attitude built on safety, training and developing the next person up the ladder and consistently nailing the plan. Shane and his team worked diligently and created training for new leaders to help with their onboarding. Shane was also the driving force for process assistant interview prep training for Area Manager interviews. Shane’s leadership consistently creates new leaders.

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Shane is a strong communicator and teacher, he has an uncanny knack for breaking down a complex process into easily digestible bites in order to foster a deeper understanding of an organization’s goals and drive strong results. Shane invests considerable time in getting to know his team on a deep and genuine level which enables him to effectively pattern his message to a diverse group of leaders which significantly increases their buy in and fosters a high level of trust. Shane is a strong team builder he shares his vision and empowers his leaders to own their business units while he steers the ship. I cannot say enough about the level of mentorship I received from Shane during our time working together - he connected me to resources and opportunities I needed to strengthen my skill set and strongly advocated for me to further my career trajectory.

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Shane served as the national business leader responsible for the field support function within my team. I found him to be values based leader thoughtful in approach, innovative, collaborative, and someone who consistently delivered exceptional business results. He combined strong people skills with a results oriented approach to every aspect of his role. His style was built on a foundation of integrity, collaboration, motivation, and communication. Shane's knowledge and experience across business segments combined with leadership style resulted in top box performance. Any organization will benefit from his leadership.

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I enjoyed my time working with Shane at Amazon. I was selected to be Shane’s mentor and given the challenge to prepare Shane to be operation’s manager to run outbound operations in 6 weeks. I came to know Shane as a thoughtful leader who engaged his people with positive energy to produce positive results. He is a skillful communicator who inspires success by teaching through metaphors and storytelling. He has a high competence in leadership principles and invests in the development of his team. Above all, you can count on Shane to deliver on results. He will achieve results through earning trust, leading by example and empowering his team. I highly recommend Shane and know he would bring high energy and a commitment to winning to any organization.

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I credit so much of my skill set and professional development to Shane. He is incredibly dedicated to each and every one of his employees’ growth and development. His passion and aptitude for learning and development is very evident and infectious - your growth potential is limitless when working on Shane’s team. In an extremely busy and fast-paced environment, Shane always delivered results while also making the time to coach and develop his team. Shane has strong tenets that I carry with me to this day. Every time I doubt my skill set or confidence, I think “What would Shane do?”, because Shane is a master at overcoming any unique challenge thrown his way while maintaining a calm demeanor. Shane is an expert at knowing and nailing the plan. He regularly lead our team to deliver and exceed expectations, and anytime a wrench was thrown our way, Shane had a strong bias for action when it came to putting out those fires. Shane takes strong ownership of his role and is very mission focused. I am extremely thankful for my time working on Shane’s team. Under Shane’s strong leadership and coaching, I was promoted twice in a six month span into my dream role. I will carry his leadership tenets with me for the rest of my personal and professional career.

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Shane was my manager at MDW9 in 2021. He is one of the most inspiring managers I have worked for. He would gather our team daily and make sure everyone knew our goals and would listen to our ideas and empower us to run our departments. He truly listened to us and helped us achieve our goals. We always knew the expectation and had his immediate support to make sure we were successful. Shane would always ask what can I do to support you? Even when I told Shane I wanted to take a different career path he was totally supportive. When I applied for other internal positions Shane would reach out to hiring managers and would put in a good word for me. I have been in management for over 20 years and I have never had a manager who was more supportive and that I trusted more. Shane made you want to be successful and he never gave up an opportunity to recognize your success or show you that he believed in you.

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It is my pleasure to unequivocally recommend Shane Speten based on my experience with Shane at Amazon. Shane was my direct manager while at Amazon. I worked for numerous operations managers and saw dozens of others come and go at Amazon. Shane was one individual I have worked with who particularly sticks out above the rest. Shane displayed incredible gifts in leadership and team building. Shane was known to senior leadership as being an incredible operator, which required attention to detail, process improvement abilities and above all the ability to build a strong team of managers and associates at the fulfillment center. Shane consistently delivered top of the line empirical results (efficiency, quality, safety) while at Amazon, while also elevating others around him to advance their careers. Without a doubt, Shane would bring enthusiasm for teaching and developing others to achieve top quartile results to any organization.

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