Background to Exec Coaching

I work with Product Managers and Product Leaders who are looking to grow in their current role. Since starting my full-time coaching practice in 2020, I’ve supported almost a hundred PMs and PM leaders.

This work rarely involves "functional" topics like process, choosing KPIs, etc. As I've explained before, my clients are folks who already good at those parts of their role and are seeking to accelerate their career by focusing on how they show up.

Some of the topics I’ve helped clients with include (non-exhaustive, unordered list!)…

• Settling in, growing and thriving in a new role

• Relationship building

• Being a new manager

• Building new habits / reducing reliance on self-limiting behaviours

• Managing upwards (managers, skips and senior leaders)

• Handling feedback

• Sharing feedback with others

• Presentation coaching

• Understanding other people and their motivations

• Boundary setting

• Pushing back more effectively / saying no in ways that are helpful to others

• Establishing and maintaining work life balance

• Figuring out what’s next (stay, adapt, go)

• Growing your reports

• Communication skills

• Getting a different perspective

• Collaboration styles

• Dealing with imposter syndrome

• Coping with change

• Helping others cope with change

• Making the most of time off

• Storytelling

My coaching rates start at $250 per 45 minute session for clients with < 5 years experience in product management.

I aim to be flexible in how I work with clients. A typical engagement is to meet every two weeks for between three and six months. Some clients work with me on a ‘project’ basis when they’re facing a particular challenge, others have engaged me continuously over more than two years. You can read some feedback from my clients here.

Intro calls with potential clients are free — a thirty-minute conversation where we can discuss your goals, what you are looking for from a coach, and I can answer your questions.