After 27 years in UX across startups, agencies & enterprise (including JP Morgan and American Express), I now teach experienced designers and managers HOW POWER ACTUALLY WORKS inside organizations.

2,400+ high-achievers coached since 2016. Some of my clients now lead teams at Amazon, Meta, Spotify, Google (as well as many AI startups)

PROBLEM #1:

Your excellent work stays invisible unless someone makes it visible.

Capability is table stakes.
Someone still has to choose you.
Recommend you.
Fight for your promotion when you’re not in the room.

Every one of those moves is a small bet with their reputation.

I teach you how to make their bet on you feel safe for them.

PROBLEM #2:

You’re too close to your own work.
You’ve lived every decision, every tradeoff, every context.

That’s exactly why you can’t hear what the room hears in the first 30 seconds.

That gap - between how you think you’re coming across and how you’re actually being read by the hiring manager, the VP, the panel that decides your future - is what’s holding you back.

SO WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SESSION?

I tell you the truth.

Like where your resume loses them, or where your interview answers sound under-leveled. Or where your portfolio pitch makes the panel check out. Or what you’re signaling that you don’t realize you’re signaling.

Then we fix it.

Not as in “tell your story better” → storytelling is performance.

We REPOSITION the story entirely, so the next room reads you the way you’ve been waiting to be read.

And you can’t close this gap alone.

You need someone who’s been in those rooms, made those calls, and can tell you what’s landing and what’s killing your chances.

THE MATH:

Every month you stay invisible costs you.

Like that role that went to someone else.
Or that title bump that didn’t happen.
Or that negotiation you had no leverage for.

The confidence bleeding out after another “we went with someone else.”

You HAVE the experience.
The room just doesn’t see it yet.
And that’s FIXABLE.

(I only coach on Wednesdays. Spots are limited.)

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