Coaching → 1:1
1:1 Leadership Coaching for Product Leaders/Executives
Have you recently taken on a new product leadership role or you're facing some new challenges in your current one?
1:1 leadership coaching for product leaders/executives is the ideal format if you:
Are looking for highly targeted, personalised coaching
Feel comfortable driving your personal development and bringing the topics you'd like to cover
Want to enhance leadership capabilities, such as communication, decision-making, delegation, and conflict resolution
Are looking for fresh insights into your strengths, weaknesses, values, and blind spots
Are focused on improving team productivity, increasing employee engagement, or driving overall organisational growth
I offer 1:1 product leadership coaching, to support new and established senior product leaders seeking to improve their performance and create better outcomes.
Ready to take the next step? Send me a quick email to introduce yourself and I'll be in touch soon.
Here are some examples of areas that we might cover in our 1:1 coaching
Transitioning into new leadership roles
Leading inclusive, responsive strategic planning
Hiring and developing new product people
Building clarity around your future career path
Boosting self-awareness through feedback and reflection
Building healthy relationships with challenging stakeholders and managers
Overcoming imposter syndrome
Resolving tension and conflict on your teams
Adopting new tools and techniques for decisionmaking
Leading through change.
How we’ll work together
My coaching methodology is high-touch, with generous ongoing support between sessions.
My sessions are always led by you. You bring the questions and topics that matter most to you, and we will explore them together.
As a coach I serve as a sounding board and thought partner. I play back what I hear without judgement. I don’t tell you what to do, but help you ask better questions and find your own answers.
With a fresh, impartial, and curious approach, I will help you to identify and create an action plan to overcome obstacles.
In return, you are responsible for attending our sessions with energy, an open mind, and accountability for using the insight you gain from coaching.
My 1:1 coaching offering includes:
6 months of work together. I require at least a six-month minimum commitment to allow us enough time to develop the trust and openness that will allow you to meet your goals. And yes, it’s possible to extend our engagement beyond six months if you’d like!
2 sessions per month. All sessions are held virtually so I can work with clients all over the world.
A 90-minute kickoff session. In our first meeting, we will clarify our agreements for working together and identify the focus of your coaching engagement.
A 360 Leadership Review. I’ll speak with a few of your peers, team members, and managers to give both of us a comprehensive view of your strengths and areas for improvement.
Continued access in between sessions. Our work doesn’t stop when the session ends, so I’m available to you outside of our regular sessions via email, WhatsApp, etc. We can also discuss organising targeted sessions to support real-time challenges if something urgent comes up.
Tools and practices. I’ll share plenty of frameworks and resources to help you discover your own opportunities, roadblocks, and next steps.
A quick note on what I don’t offer
There are all kinds of product coaches out there, so I want to make sure that the services I offer are aligned with your needs. My focus is on product leadership skills and not product management skills. This means I won’t help teach or train you on product management skills and frameworks like OKRs, roadmaps, or product maturity assessments.
I understand these skills. I have used many of the tools and frameworks as a product person and I appreciate them as the foundations of what we do, but I don’t focus on them in coaching. There are so many great people out there that do this work, and I’m happy to help you connect with someone who does.
How do we get started?
Drop me an email and tell me about yourself and what brings you to coaching. We’ll find a time to schedule and introductory call and go from there.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
“My time working with Kate as a coach was invaluable and I can’t wait to be able to get back for another six sessions.”
— VP, Marketing-Technology
“As I entered our engagement at a transition point and significant fork in the road of my career the biggest thing that I liked was the clarity and purpose the sessions provided.
Overall it provided me with the dedicated time and space to focus, reflect, inspect and consider, various paths and options.”
— Head of Product, SaaS
“Kate did a really good job at helping me surface areas that I needed help on, be it conflict management or coaching my own team members. I liked that we left with action items and followed up during next session”
— Director, Product Line Lead, Pharma
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