Coaching execs and emerging leaders

What you can expect working with me

As a coach and thought partner, I help executives and emerging leaders level up on effectiveness and job satisfaction.

I bring an intense curiosity about how to help people grow, along with deep experience in both engineering and product leadership, across:

  • Early-stage searches for traction
  • Periods of intensely accelerated growth
  • Ongoing struggles to stay effective at scale

Some Challenges I Know Well And Love

Engineering or Product Leaders With Recently Expanded Scope

Perhaps due to promotion, or company expansion, or the departure of a key peer. I’ve helped such leaders:

  • Build trust with their CEO and peers on a leadership team

  • Establish consistent delivery of value, across a broad set of teams

  • Improve collaborations with teams outside of engineering & product

Leading Through Periods of Intense Growth

Having experienced multiple such periods, I can support leaders as they:

  • Organize and reorganize their teams through growth inflection points

  • Work to maintain both culture & velocity during scale up

Facing A Company-Wide Strategic Challenge

Where some such challenges might include:

  • Intense pressure to develop a new product to expand TAM

  • Urgent attempts to restructure internal, tech-supported operations to reduce costs

  • High-stakes efforts to weave AI into both product offerings and internal practices

Every such company-wide challenge will bring its own, extremely distinct nuances. In such situations, I aim to serve as a thought partner as well as a coach.

Format and pricing

While my rates vary by role and company stage, the typical engagement includes video meetings every other week and a non-contractual minimum of six sessions.

Contact

Please direct any inquiries to dan@dan-milstein.com