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Leadership coaching

Want to become a more effective leader? We’ve got you covered.

Success as a leader is a function of learning new skills and increasing one’s self-awareness. Identifying and acquiring skills is somewhat straightforward: recommended training and books abound. But expanding self-awareness requires self-reflection. Cementing new skills and gaining awareness are vastly amplified and accelerated through working 1-on-1 with a great coach. That’s where we come in!

What you’re working through

Our coaching helps you tackle a range of challenges, including:

  • Building successful teams and organizations — from strategy to execution

  • Developing leadership skills, such as empowering others, influencing without micromanaging, and delegating appropriately

  • Tackling tough management situations, giving and receiving feedback effectively, and reducing feelings of overwhelm

  • Advancing your career, building confidence, and increasing decisiveness or assertiveness

  • Discovering your unique strengths and leadership style

  • Developing techniques to manage your energy and increase resilience

  • Getting unstuck from frustrating situations

How it works

We’ll work together over time (we suggest ~6-8 months) to help you build lasting behavior change. Our coaching sessions are typically held bi-weekly or monthly and are designed to fit seamlessly into your busy schedule.

We’ll work with you to identify clear goals and success criteria, and we tailor our approach to meet your unique needs. Two common approaches are:

  • Development coaching Structured sessions that are tied to a specific development goal. This is a powerful option when you have identified a pattern of behavior – where your tried-and-true methods are not working and you want to build specific new behavioral “muscles.”

  • Performance coaching Ongoing sessions that are driven by the week-to-week challenges and opportunities that are most important to you. Together we’ll explore different avenues, challenge your assumptions, offer resources from our wealth of product development knowledge, and help you develop a clear path forward.

You will develop

  • Increased self-awareness of your beliefs, behaviors, leadership approach, and how you impact your organization - the strengths of your approach and where it limits you

  • New tools, techniques, and approaches for addressing improvement areas in yourself, your teams, and your organization

  • A leadership approach that enables you to respond in new and more effective ways, act differently and more intentionally, and improve your leadership effectiveness

What you can expect from us

  • Extensive experience as senior managers working directly with product and engineering leaders and teams in high-growth companies

  • Ability to break down problems and help design tailor-made solutions for the context

  • Commitment to bring a different perspective and challenge your thinking

  • Focus on getting you clear on outcomes that are important

  • Extensive training and experience in coaching, human behavior, difficult conversations, and leadership

  • Comfort with both chaos and structure

What’s included

  • Initial Assessments: Confidential self-assessment for coachee, self-reflection sheet for optional discussion with manager, and an optional manager's reflection sheet.

  • Kick-off Session: With optional manager/sponsor participation, focusing on identifying coaching topic, setting desired outcomes, success criteria, and reviewing reflection sheets.

  • Bi-weekly Coaching Sessions: 12 one-hour sessions over six months (includes kick-off and completion sessions).

  • Ad hoc Support: Available for urgent topics via email and text.

  • Curated Learning Materials: Articles, videos, exercises, and books tailored to the coachee's needs and coaching topic.

  • Mid-Program Progress Check-In: Encouraged by the coach, the coachee discusses their progress and areas of focus with their manager, allowing for goal adjustments.

  • Completion Session: Review of achievements, insights, behavior changes, and growth, with optional manager/sponsor participation. Planning for continued practice post-coaching is also covered.

NOTE We offer ad hoc coaching or shorter programs on a case-by-case basis.

Topic examples

Growing confidence as a new manager (of managers), building successful teams and organizations, navigating difficult relationships, improving influence, developing strategies to manage energy and increase resilience, tackling tough management situations, advancing in your career, empowering others, etc.