Coaching

Personalized Development for Technology Leaders and Professionals

Business Coaching

Technology leadership is challenging. Whether you’re navigating your first management role, stepping into the C-suite, or looking to maximize your impact as an individual contributor, the path forward isn’t always clear. That’s where coaching makes the difference.

Drawing on over 30 years of technology leadership experience across diverse industries and organizational scales, we provide one-on-one coaching tailored to your specific goals, challenges, and stage of career development.

This isn’t generic career advice. It’s personalized guidance from someone who’s been there—building teams, leading transformations, navigating organizational politics, making difficult decisions, and developing the capabilities that separate good leaders from great ones.

Who We Coach

We coach the following

CIOs and VPs of IT

You’re responsible for technology strategy, operations, and delivering business value. You face board presentations, budget battles, transformation initiatives, and the constant challenge of aligning technology with business priorities while building and leading high-performing teams.

Coaching focus: Strategic leadership, stakeholder management, business acumen, organizational design, governance frameworks, executive presence, and navigating C-suite dynamics.

Business Executives Overseeing IT Functions

You lead a business unit or function and technology is critical to your success, but it’s not your core expertise. You need to ask the right questions, make informed decisions about technology investments, and hold your technology leaders accountable without becoming a technologist yourself.

Coaching focus: Technology oversight, asking effective questions, evaluating technology proposals, building productive relationships with IT leaders, understanding technology’s role in business strategy.

IT Directors and Senior Technology Leaders

You’re leading significant technology teams or functions. You’ve moved beyond pure technical work into strategic leadership, but you’re still developing your business acumen, executive presence, and ability to influence across the organization.

Coaching focus: Strategic thinking, business alignment, influencing without authority, developing executive presence, building organizational credibility, managing up and across.

New IT Leaders and Managers

You’ve recently transitioned from individual contributor to manager, or from manager to director. It’s a fundamentally different job requiring new skills in delegation, feedback, performance management, and leading through others.

Coaching focus: Management fundamentals, delegation, giving feedback, developing people, transitioning from doer to leader, building team culture, time management for leaders.

Individual Contributors Seeking Career Growth

You’re a technology professional who wants to excel in your current role, build new capabilities, and make informed decisions about your career path—whether that leads toward management, technical leadership, or deeper specialization.

Coaching focus: Career planning, skill development, understanding career options, building influence, navigating organizational dynamics, preparing for leadership opportunities, developing business acumen.

Our Coaching Approach

Tailored to Your Needs

Every coaching engagement starts with understanding your specific situation: your goals, challenges, organizational context, and what success looks like for you. We build a coaching plan around your needs, not a predetermined curriculum.

Grounded in Real Experience

Coaching draws on 30+ years of technology leadership across startups to global enterprises, spanning multiple industries. You’re learning from someone who’s faced similar challenges and can share what actually works in practice, not just theory.

Practical and Action-Oriented

Sessions focus on real situations you’re facing—upcoming presentations, difficult conversations, strategic decisions, organizational challenges. You leave each session with clarity on next steps and practical approaches you can apply immediately.

Honest and Direct

Technology leadership requires making tough calls and having difficult conversations. Coaching provides a safe space for honest dialogue about what’s working, what’s not, and what you need to hear even if it’s uncomfortable.

Focused on Sustainable Growth

The goal isn’t just solving today’s problem—it’s building capabilities and frameworks you’ll use throughout your career. We work on developing your thinking, not just providing answers.

What Coaching Addresses

Leadership Development

Transitioning from technical expert to leader
Building and communicating vision
Developing executive presence and credibility
Leading through influence, not just authority
Making strategic decisions under uncertainty
Balancing competing priorities and stakeholder needs

Business Acumen

Understanding how businesses create value
Aligning technology with business strategy
Speaking the language of business leaders
Building business cases for technology investments
Demonstrating and measuring business impact
Navigating organizational politics effectively

Team Building and People Management

Hiring and building high-performing teams
Developing and retaining talent
Giving effective feedback
Managing performance issues
Delegating effectively
Creating team culture and psychological safety

Strategic Thinking

Moving from tactical to strategic mindset
Evaluating technology options and trade-offs
Building technology strategy that serves business goals
Managing technical debt vs. innovation
Making architecture and platform decisions
Planning for scale and sustainability

Communication and Influence

Presenting to boards and executives
Influencing without authority
Navigating difficult conversations
Managing stakeholder expectations
Building relationships across the organization
Communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Career Navigation

Clarifying career goals and options
Choosing between management and technical leadership paths
Preparing for next-level roles
Building networks and visibility
Developing personal brand and reputation
Making strategic career moves

Organizational Challenges

Navigating organizational change and politics
Managing up, down, and across
Building credibility in new roles
Overcoming organizational resistance
Working effectively with difficult stakeholders
Driving change in established organizations

How Coaching Works

Initial Assessment

We start with a comprehensive discussion about your background, current role, challenges, goals, and what you hope to achieve through coaching. This helps establish clear objectives and ensures coaching is the right fit.

Regular Sessions

Most clients engage in bi-weekly or monthly one-hour sessions. This frequency provides continuity while allowing time to apply insights between sessions. We can adjust cadence based on your needs and what you’re working on.

Between-Session Support

Complex challenges don’t follow coaching schedules. When you’re facing a critical presentation, difficult decision, or urgent situation, brief between-session support is available via email or short calls.

Flexible Duration

Some clients engage for a few months around a specific transition or challenge. Others continue coaching over longer periods as an ongoing development investment. We adjust based on your evolving needs.

Complete Confidentiality

Coaching conversations are completely confidential. This creates the safe space needed for honest dialogue about challenges, uncertainties, and growth areas.

What Makes This Coaching Different

Real-World Technology Leadership Experience

Coaching isn’t based on academic frameworks or consulting models—it’s grounded in decades of hands-on technology leadership. We’ve built the teams, led the transformations, navigated the politics, and made the tough calls. You’re learning from someone who’s done the work.

Business-First Orientation

Technology exists to serve business objectives. Coaching reinforces this mindset at every level—whether you’re an individual contributor learning to think strategically or a CIO refining your business case for a major investment.

Whole-Person Approach

Leadership effectiveness depends on more than just technical skills or business acumen. We address communication, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, resilience, and the personal dynamics that enable or limit your success.

No Cookie-Cutter Solutions

Your situation is unique—different organization, different challenges, different strengths and development areas. Coaching is completely customized to what you need, not what worked for someone else.

Focus on Building Capability

The goal is to strengthen your ability to navigate challenges independently, not create dependence on ongoing coaching. We work on developing your frameworks and thinking, not just solving individual problems.

Common Coaching Scenarios

New CIO or VP: You’ve just stepped into a senior technology leadership role. You need to establish credibility quickly, understand the business deeply, build relationships with executive peers, and set strategic direction while managing immediate operational demands.

Technology Transformation Leader: You’re leading a major transformation initiative—ERP implementation, cloud migration, digital transformation. You need to manage stakeholder expectations, navigate organizational resistance, keep the program on track, and ensure business value delivery.

First-Time Manager: You’ve been promoted to manager but the skills that made you a great individual contributor don’t automatically translate to leading others. You’re learning delegation, feedback, performance management, and how to deliver through your team.

Technical Leader Seeking Business Growth: You’re strong technically but recognize you need to develop business acumen, strategic thinking, and executive presence to advance your career and increase your impact.

Career Crossroads: You’re considering whether to pursue management, stay on a technical track, or explore something entirely different. You need clarity on your options and which path aligns with your strengths and goals.

Organizational Challenge: You’re facing a difficult boss, organizational politics, a struggling team, or resistance to necessary changes. You need strategies to navigate the situation effectively while maintaining your integrity and effectiveness.

Investment and Commitment

Coaching is an investment in your development and career. Most clients find that even modest improvements in effectiveness, decision-making, or career trajectory deliver returns that far exceed the coaching investment.

Engagement structures vary based on your needs:

Short-term focused coaching (3-6 months) around specific transitions or challenges
Ongoing development coaching (6-12+ months) for sustained capability building
Executive coaching packages for senior leaders
Custom arrangements for unique situations

Ready to Accelerate Your Development?

Whether you’re navigating a specific challenge, preparing for a new role, or committed to ongoing growth as a technology leader, coaching provides the personalized support, honest feedback, and proven frameworks to accelerate your success.

Schedule a Complimentary Consultation

Let’s discuss your development goals and whether coaching is the right fit. In a 30-minute consultation, we’ll explore:

Your current role, challenges, and development goals
How coaching could support your success
What a coaching engagement might look like
Whether there’s mutual fit and alignment

Technology leadership is challenging. You don’t have to figure it out alone.