FREE-FORM career session. Bring your questions, and we'll work through them together.

Before the session (send at least 48 hours ahead):

→ Your questions

→ All relevant career material

→ Linkedin and/or other links you want me to look at and take into consideration.

During the session, we’ll work on:

→ Real-time feedback on your positioning, case studies, or how you communicate your business impact.

→ How you pitch yourself, tell your professional story, and come across "on paper" vs in real life

→ Map out your next move

→ Anything else you need clarity on

You’ll leave with:

→ Clear answers to your questions

→ A grounded perspective on where you stand and how to position your unique value

→ Tactical next steps tailored to your immediate career goals.

→ Newly found (or re-confirmed :) confidence

A realistic mock interview for the exact role you're targeting. I ask the questions senior leaders actually use, you answer under real pressure, and I tell you straight where it landed and where it broke (and how to fix it).

This session is for you if:

→ You have a real interview coming up

→ You want one full run-through before the one that counts

→ You freeze, ramble, or blank when the questions get hard

→ You want to hear how your answers sound to a senior decision-maker

Before the session (send at least 48 hours ahead):

→ The job description

→ Your resume and/or LinkedIn

→ 3–5 stories you plan to use

→ The interview format and rounds, if you know them

I build the mock around your actual role and read your stories first, so the questions hit where it matters

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During the session, we’ll work on:

→ We run a live mock built around your target role

→ I press on judgment, ownership, tradeoffs, and business impact

→ I push back the way a real panel will

→ Then I give you direct feedback: what worked, what sounded weak, what to fix

You’ll leave with:

→ A clear read on how you come across under pressure

→ The answers that need rebuilding before the real interview

→ A specific fix list

→ The calm that comes from having done it once already

A focused 30-min session for UXers interviewing for individual contributor roles. We work your answers through a hiring manager / VP lens, so you know exactly how the people deciding your future are reading you.

This session is for you if:

→ You have an IC interview coming up
→ Your suspect your answers may run too long, too vague or too tactical
→ You can't tell which of your stories make you sound "more senior"

→ You want direct feedback before the real thing

Before the session (send at least 24 hours ahead):

→ The job description (if you have a specific one, or just the level you are aiming at)

→ Link to your Linkedin

→ 2–3 career stories (or story ideas at least) you want to polish

→ Any interview questions you're worried about

I read all of it before we meet, so we skip the catch-up and go straight to the work

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During the session, we’ll work on:

→ Your opening pitch ("Tell me about yourself")
→ Your 2–3 interview stories

→ How you explain your decisions, tradeoffs, and impact

→ Where you sound strong, and where you sound under-leveled

→ What a hiring manager will question or doubt

You’ll leave with:

→ A sharper interview narrative
→ Clearer, more senior answers
→ Specific language to use
→ A short fix list before the interview

→ Your newly found confidence

You have to present your work to a panel, and that round is where senior and super senior designers get rejected. We run it live so you find out where the room checks out before the room that decides your offer does.

This session is for you if--

→ You have a portfolio or work-presentation round coming up

→ You're a Senior, Lead, Staff, or Principal candidate

→ You've been told your work is strong but your presentation falls flat

→ You want to survive the toughest questions before they're asked for real

Before the session (send at least 48 hours ahead):

→ Your actual presentation deck (I highly recommend having a separate deck for this, in addition to your online portfolio)

→ The job description and the format of the presentation round, if you know it

I review your deck slide by slide in advance, so we open with the problems that matter most

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During the session

→ You present 15–20 minutes live, exactly as you would to the real panel

→ I play the panel: I interrupt, push, and ask the questions that make people sweat

→ Then we tear it down together - where you lost the room, which slides to cut, how to pitch your work at the right altitude

You’ll leave with

→ A tightened presentation

→ A kill-list of the slides dragging you down

→ The two or three hard questions pre-answered

→ A clear sense of how you command a room under fire

[Reframing your IC work as Leadership] You're interviewing for a Director role and you've never held the title for. This session pressure-tests your stories so you walk in sounding like a leader, not a senior IC who got lucky.

This session is for you if--

→ You’re a Senior, Lead, Staff, or Principal UX professional interviewing for Director roles
→ You’ve never held a Director title before., OR held one at a small company
→ You have interviews in the next 2–4 weeks
→ You suspect your answers may still sound too tactical

Before the session (send at least 48 hours ahead):

→ The completed prep brief (I'll send it to you to fill out right after booking)

→ 4–6 career stories drafted using my structure (about an hour of work)

→ The job descriptions for the roles you're interviewing for

I read and pre-audit everything, so we spend the full hour working and fixing.

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During the session

→ We audit your stories for Director-level altitude

→ We find which answers land and which sound under-leveled

→ We reframe your weakest stories in real time

→ We sharpen your language around leadership, judgment, influence, and business impact

→ We run 4–5 live mock questions and coach your answers on the spot

You’ll leave with

→ A clear read on which stories work at Director level
→ Reframed language for your weakest answers
→ Live feedback on how you come across under pressure
→ A specific fix list for the days before your interview

The 2026 market wants player-coach leaders: directors who set the bet AND can still drop into the file to unblock the team.

The problem is, most people interviewing for these roles are coming at them from one side or the other, and getting read as the wrong hire.

This 2-session bundle gets you positioned for the player-coach role from wherever you're starting:

-> If you're a super-IC, you have the hands. What the panel can't see yet is that you set direction and move the business. Right now you read as "the best maker in the room," and that tops you out at Staff IC.

-> If you're a leader who's drifted from the work, you have the altitude. But in a leaner, AI-shifted org, a manager who hasn't touched a file in years reads as a coordinator role companies are cutting, not filling.

Two different starting points, same destination: proof that you can do AND direct, in the same breath.

How the sessions are structured ↴

Session 1 -> Work review + diagnostic (45 min)

We go through your actual materials: portfolio, resume, the way you talk about your work.

First we figure out which gap is yours (too much "maker," or too far from the craft), because the fix is completely different depending on the answer.

Then I give you a clear plan: what to cut, what to reframe, and which pieces of evidence to add so you read as a player-coach instead of one half of one.

You leave with a specific rework list.

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Session 2 -> Rework review + mock interview (45 min)

You come back with the changes made.

We review them, then run a real mock interview for the role you're targeting.

I push on the exact questions a hiring panel uses to find out whether you can lead and still build, and we sharpen your answers live until they land.

You leave ready to walk into the actual interview.

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The outcome

A portfolio and an interview story that prove both halves: judgment that moves the business, and taste that's still live in the work.

You're probably already doing the work of a leader, you just haven't gotten the title, or the credit that should come with it, and honestly, that gap is exhausting to carry.

So over 3 sessions, we'll close it.

First we figure out how people actually see you, then we rebuild the way you tell your story, then we get you moving on your next step.

Before we start (send these at least 48 hours ahead):

→ Your questions, and where you feel stuck

→ Any career material that's relevant - resume, case studies, brag doc, a promo packet if you've got one

→ Your LinkedIn, and any other links you'd want me to look at

Session 1 -> Let's see where you actually stand.

We get honest about the distance between the leader you already are and how you're being read right now.

→ How you come across "on paper" vs. the impact you really have

→ What your scope and influence actually are, underneath how they're being talked about

→ The specific thing that's keeping you boxed in as "a great IC"

You'll walk away with a clear, honest read on where you stand - and the one or two gaps worth closing first.

Session 2 — Let's rebuild your story.

We take what we found and turn it into a story that sounds like leadership - built from your real work, not some abstract formula.

→ Reframing what you've done as leadership: the messes you absorbed, the calls you made, the people you grew

→ Making your seniority land in seconds

→ Live feedback from me on your positioning, your case studies, how you talk about your impact

You'll walk away with a sharper story and a case for your value that holds up even when you're not in the room.

Session 3 -> Let's make the move.

We turn all of that into actual next steps and the conversations that get you there.

→ Mapping your move , be it a promotion, bigger scope, a role, or jumping somewhere new

→ Talking through the real conversations ahead: your manager, your skip, whoever actually decides

→ Stress-testing how your case holds up in the rooms you're not in — calibration, hiring, leadership reviews

You'll walk away with a real, sequenced plan you can start on that same week.

One last thing on how this works: While we'll follow the diagnose → rebuild → move sequence, we'll actually let what you need set the pace. Just bring the real stuff — the doubts, the half-formed questions, all of it — and we'll work through it together.

And you'll leave the whole thing with clearer answers, a grounded sense of your own value, a plan that's actually yours, and that confidence (new or just re-confirmed :) that you've been a leader all along.

You signed the offer. Now you have to deliver in a room full of people who didn't hire you, in an org running lean and watching closely. This session builds the plan that keeps you out of the "should we have hired them" conversation.

This session is for you if--

→ You just accepted a Director, VP, or Head of Design role

→ You haven't started yet, or you're in your first few weeks

→ You're stepping into a bigger scope than you've held before

→ You want to show value fast to the exec who took the bet on you

Before the session (send at least 48 hours ahead):

→ Your role scope and reporting line

→ What you know about the team, the org structure, and the exec who hired you

→ The mandate you were given, and why the seat was open

I read the landscape in advance, so we build a plan grounded in your real situation.

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During the session

→ We map the political terrain you're walking into

→ We build a 30-60-90 that proves your value early

→ We identify who you need to win in the first month

→ Go over common invisible mistakes that get new leaders pushed out

You’ll leave with

→ A 90-day plan built around visible wins

→ A stakeholder map for your new org

→ The early warning signs to watch for

→ A clear first move for weeks ahead