A quick-start guide from my LDX3 London 2025 talk.

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.

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.

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.

Read tried and tested strategies to foster a culture of empowerment, breaking patterns of micromanagement and heroism, and cultivating a mindset where all team members step up and treat challenges as collective opportunities for growth. Foster shared responsibility and collaboration to help your team/organization take more ownership.

Engineering leaders often ask me, “what engineering metrics are actually useful?”, or “which ones have worked for your teams?” This is where I share what metrics I found useful in various roles from engineering manager, to middle manager, to executive, and why.

Did your boss ask you to come up with metrics for your team(s)? Do you need to get your team on board with metrics? Learn the concrete steps you can take to choose and introduce metrics for your team(s) or organization and make them a success.

What do you do when you’re asked to execute on a company decision with your team(s) and direct reports, but you disagree with the decision? This step-by-step guide will help you navigate a tricky and complex situation.

Middle managers play a crucial role in fostering a "first team" approach among their direct reports, and doing so will help you elevate your role and your organization. Learn how to empower your leaders, build collaboration, and drive organizational change through the power of collective leadership.

Learn how to select the right metrics for your organization, implement them effectively, and get actionable insights. I cover how to involve your team in creating meaningful metrics, go from mere numbers to actionable insights, and create a culture of data-driven decision-making.

Struggling to implement meaningful engineering metrics in your team or organization? Understand the roles that metrics play at various organizational levels, and learn to use them as a powerful tool for improvement, alignment, and accountability. Whether you're a VP, middle manager, or line manager, this guide unpacks why metrics matter and how to make them work for you.

Working as a "first team" with our peer leaders means that we prioritize our peers rather than focusing mainly on our direct reports. Read about how this approach can help you bridge departmental gaps, level up as a leader, and based on what signs you can tell if leaders are operating as a “first team.”

Performance reviews are one of the most stressful times in any company, especially for leaders in middle management roles. In this article, we’ll help you align the contexts and motivations of all the people involved in this process, so you get the most out of performance reviews.

Do you feel stuck in the middle, as you’re navigating the tightrope between your CTO boss and the Engineering Managers reporting to you? I've been there. Learn proven strategies to balance different needs, fix communication, and steer your team to success. Your role is crucial—learn how to excel at it!

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.

Answer your boss's question about your engineering team's performance with this practical guide to effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. It will help you understand your team's productivity and take steps with your teammates to become more productive while maintaining quality and innovation and taking your team along. With a free Engineering Productivity Cheat Sheet for download!

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.