Services
How I work with leaders
I work with product and engineering leaders operating under pressure, often during periods of transition or change.
The core challenge is rarely effort or capability. More often, it’s misalignment, unclear priorities, and decision-making under load.
The services below are different ways of addressing that, depending on context and need.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership often becomes harder as responsibility grows. Expectations increase, context multiplies, and the cost of poor decisions rises.
Coaching creates a dedicated space to slow things down, think clearly, and make sense of what actually matters. It supports leaders in making better decisions when the pressure is real and the answers aren’t obvious.
Typical focus areas include:
- Navigating new leadership roles or expanded scope
- Making better decisions under pressure
- Building confidence without relying on constant reassurance
- Developing influence without formal authority
- Avoiding burnout while sustaining performance
Team Coaching
High-performing teams don’t happen by accident. Team coaching supports groups navigating change or increased complexity.
This work focuses on strengthening trust, improving communication, and addressing misalignment that slows teams down.
Team coaching often helps with:
- Improving alignment around goals and priorities
- Strengthening ways of working and decision-making
- Reducing friction between roles or functions
- Supporting teams through periods of transition
Product Advisory
Product advisory provides senior, context-rich support for product and engineering leaders making high-stakes decisions they don’t want to navigate alone.
This work draws on experience leading product teams through scale, transition, and complexity, and is often used to complement leadership or team coaching.
Product advisory may involve:
- Sense-checking strategy and product direction
- Navigating organisational change or ambiguity
- Clarifying priorities and trade-offs
- Supporting leaders during complex or high-stakes decisions
This work is selective and typically supports organisations already engaging in coaching or advisory work.
Leadership Development
Leadership development supports organisations looking to build stronger leadership capability and product thinking at scale.
This work focuses on developing coach-like leadership skills, improving decision-making, and strengthening alignment across leaders and teams.
Leadership development may include:
- Supporting managers through role transitions
- Developing coach-like leadership capability
- Product coaching and capability building
- Building a sustainable product practice
Delivery formats vary depending on context and may include workshops, cohort-based learning, or embedded coaching.
Fractional Product Leadership
In some cases, organisations need additional leadership capacity for a defined period.
Fractional product leadership provides hands-on support on a part-time basis where deeper involvement is required.
This engagement is typically used alongside coaching or advisory work, not as a standalone replacement for in-house leadership.
Engagements are time-bound and designed to address specific gaps or transition periods.
When leaders typically engage me
Leaders usually reach out when things are technically working, but feel harder than they should.
Common signals include:
- You’re carrying too much context and decision load yourself
- Priorities keep shifting without real alignment
- Senior conversations feel slow, tense, or circular
- The team is delivering, but progress feels fragile
- You’re operating under sustained pressure with little time to step back
What tends to change
Over time, leaders notice a shift in how they think and operate day to day.
Typically, that looks like:
- Fewer decisions competing for attention at the same time
- Clearer priorities when trade-offs are unavoidable
- More direct, productive conversations with peers and stakeholders
- Less second-guessing after decisions are made
The work doesn’t remove pressure. It helps leaders handle it with more clarity and confidence.
How this work is different
This work sits between coaching and advisory.
I don’t arrive with a fixed consulting playbook, and I don’t stay purely in reflective coaching mode.
My background in product leadership keeps the work grounded in real constraints. Coaching training ensures the work builds awareness instead of dependency.
The focus is clearer thinking and better decisions.
Testimonials
Clients most often describe gaining clarity, confidence, and a steadier way of operating under pressure.
Working together
If you’re navigating change and want a thoughtful sounding board, I’d be glad to hear from you.