For anyone who has a manager, learning to manage up is one of the most powerful skills you can develop. Whether you're just starting your career as an engineer or you're a seasoned leader, this guide will help you improve your relationship with your manager in a way that benefits both parties. Learn what managing up means, signs that you should do it more, how to do it well, and how to address common challenges.

Maximize your coaching or mentoring success with practical tips on building a solid partnership, optimizing sessions, and overcoming barriers. Learn what you can ask for and do before and during your work with a coach to achieve your professional goals effectively and confidently. Dive in to discover actionable insights and real-world examples to learn from other leaders.

What should engineering leadership roles in tech look like? We delve into the intense, decades-long debates, and look at how current industry changes affect responsibilities. Learn the crucial skills for effective leadership, and what people and technical leadership roles are right for your company.

Skip-level meetings can be a a catalyst for positive change within your organization, but too often, common interpersonal dynamics get in the way of leaders and employees making the most of them. Learn what these common challenges are and how to address them, to unlock greater team alignment and make your skip-level one-to-ones useful for leaders and employees alike.

Skip-level meetings offer direct communication between senior leaders and employees who report to middle managers. While they can be powerful tools for alignment and building trust, they can be awkward or ineffective if not conducted thoughtfully. This article offers a practical guide and templates for managers of managers to make these meetings beneficial for all involved.

Overwhelm is common among engineering leaders, but we don’t talk about it much. In this article, you’ll find common sources of overwhelm to help you recognize it in yourself, or support peers, and strategies from my work with many leaders dealing with this that can help you cope and get better.

This article 3-step guide will help you support your teams in recovering from difficult organizational changes. It shows how to shift from control to empowerment, involve your leadership teams, and how to show up as a leader for your teams. This guide will help you foster a culture of empowerment to drive innovation and success during difficult transitions.

Strategies for leaders guiding teams after tough changes like layoffs and reorganizations. We contrast high-control and high-empowerment approaches, and why you should resist the temptation of focusing on motivating your employees to process the change as quickly as possible, and what to do instead.

Your middle managers are more than just intermediaries between your leadership team and employees on the ground. Learn how to equip them with the context, ownership, and clarity they need, and you will not only empower them, but also enhance the overall productivity and morale of your entire organization.

Master the art of annual planning for your engineering organization. Use the steps in this article to create a strategy that helps you hit the ground running, embrace flexibility, and involve your teams for alignment. And: Get a FREE planning template!

Leadership coaching has become increasingly popular amongst leaders at all levels in the tech space, which means there are a lot of options to choose from. In this article, I lay out how to find the right coach for your needs, and how to get the most out of your coaching experience.

Struggling with Accountability in Engineering Teams? You're not alone. Learn how to build a culture that thrives on accountability—without sacrificing psychological safety. Marry your leadership values with accountability, overcome common misconceptions, and lead by example for a high-performing team. Master accountability, the unsung hero of effective leadership.

Read about what accountability is and isn’t, how to set up a culture of accountability, and learning from other departments, from my inspiring conversation with Jasmin Jackson-Irwin, a seasoned Revenue Leader who’s built enablement programs in hyper-growth startups.

Build a culture of high accountability in your organization. In the second article of this series, we’ll talk about what accountability is in the context of engineering organizations, lay out how to get started with building a culture of accountability and cover how it benefits your teams.

Accountability is key component of building high-performing teams, enabling team autonomy, and fostering psychological safety. And yet, many leaders ignore the topic - until they can’t. The first of three articles in my accountability series, I’ll help you spot low accountability in your organization.

Leading during an economic downturn means adapting our thinking, shifting from high-growth and scalability to efficiency. In this article, I lay out concrete steps you can take to prepare for and lead in an economic downturn.

Why all these tech lay-offs, why now, and at once? As tech leaders, we’re getting these questions, and it’s been hard to keep up with the news. In this article, I put my finance background to use and explain in human-comprehensive terms what’s happening and why.

Use these 28 questions to ask yourself about how you show up as a leader, to help you become the best leader you can be. I’m also giving away a free worksheet format of this article, for those who want to work through the questions on paper or distribute it to their team.

As leaders, we cannot be everywhere, all the time. As more and more companies move to hybrid working models, new leadership challenges are brought to the table. Understanding the nuances of remote work and what it means for different groups of people can increase empathy and form a solid basis for a more effective, and more equal, hybrid working environments. 

“Strategic leadership” is a nebulous concept for many leaders - and something that gets thrown around a lot without much explanation. In part one of the ’Stop, Strategy time’ series, I introduce the concept of strategic leadership, what strategy is and isn’t, and outline my three golden rules of strategic leadership.