My coaching practice serves engineers who are in the position I was earlier in my career. I needed a coach who had been through the problems I was running into and could listen, explain, and help me grow, but didn't have one.

My focus is on helping engineers who are at a growth stage and who feel like they could grow faster and more effectively with some extra help. We can work together on improving your leadership and interpersonal skills, your big picture and systems thinking, your technical skill trajectory, and we can work on any career problems that come up.

If you want to explore working together, email me. In your introduction email, please let me know who you are and what you want to work on together. I typically recommend that we book multiple sessions at a time, since coaching work takes time to pay off.

Testimonials

Sometimes it's helpful to hear it from someone who I've worked with.

"When I started working with Nicole I was looking for a new job and feeling really lost about how to present my experience as a Software Engineer. Together we completely recreated my mental model about my career and landed me a job I really like! She helped me revisit and reframe past projects. We talked through technical details and my contributions and leveled up my technical and organizational understanding, and most of all my confidence and ability to talk about my work. She has helped me solidify my principles and opinions around social parts of engineering and has been a great assistant architect in thinking through technical decisions."

    -Amelia

As a senior dev for a while now, I've mentored a lot of junior devs. I'm often asked to be the person with the answers, or at least how to find the answers. But what do I do when I have questions myself?

The higher up I've gone, the harder it's been for me to find someone that feels like they can help answer those questions well. But Nicole has definitely been one of those people. I appreciate her strong technical expertise, her empathy in seeing from my point of view and from the point of view of others around me, and most of all her ability to see other possible solutions I didn't think of. These are all important skills in a mentor, and I think it's rare to find them in one person, personally.

I just wish I'd reached out sooner. It's been great for me to have Nicole as a mentor so far!

    -Ed

Nicole has been really helpful. I was stuck in my own head. The idea of building a portfolio and using writing as a vehicle to stay motivated to work on the portfolio was the insight that led to really positive changes in my life.

    -Samvid