1:1 Coaching
Leadership is not a title. It’s a behavior, a set of values you live by, and a powerful belief system that guides you to be your best. But we all have blocks that are in our way and visions we haven’t yet realized—that’s where coaching comes in.
I am not a senior design leader between jobs who calls themselves a coach without any training. I am currently trained through iPEC, a well-known ICF-accredited executive coaching training program.
I don’t give advice. I guide you to your own insights and actions so that you eventually don’t need a coach at all. Despite having a full-time job as Head of Product Design at Oracle, I do this to give back to this community of humanists who are putting their heart into bringing products and services into this world, trying to bring creativity and courage to their jobs, making themselves and those around them an expression of a truly human-centered business.
If you’re not officially in design, I can also help. Maybe you want to bring more creativity to your role, or want to collaborate better, or find ways to inspire yourself or those around you. I can be your core collaborator …
Key Coaching Themes
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Communicating with Influence
Design leaders need to be cheerleaders. It’s not simply about business value; it’s about understanding the decorum and orthodoxies in the existing system so you can both be heard and feel heard and learn where to nudge the org forward.
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Mid-Career / Transformation
Maybe you’ve been doing this awhile, but you’re not sure where to go from here. I wll work with you to co-create a future in which you are living and thrving according to your values and core purpose.
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From IC to Manager
You were a principal designer, and for your success, they’ve made you a manager. Now what? How do you lead? What do your direct reports really want from you? I will help you bridge this transition with creative confidence.
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Personal Development
Leadership starts by leading yourself. The best way to do this is by raising your EQ and self-awareness and understanding your triggers. Through my own background in certified mindfulness training, you’ll begin to understand the rich opportunity that emerges when you tune into the space between stimulus and response. Engage in self-care and self-compassion, and you will quickly realize how to get unstuck.
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Design Ops
To have a thriving creative team, you need rituals and systems that support big thinking, mutual support, growth mindsets, and continual learning. That doesn’t happen through simply authoring a charter, it comes through creating flexible systems, useful tools, RACIs, and clarified processes. Design Ops allows your team to focus on what matters and purposefully apply their strengths to making world-class products and services.
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Growing your Team
Growth is a sign your organization believes in your ability to lead. Without growth, you lose important opportunities to wield organizational capital and it becomes challenging to manage both up and down sustainably. Growth isn’t just about quantity either. It’s about bringing in the highest quality talent that’s inspired by the challenge.