Empowering Leaders to Succeed
For Technical CoFounders
You’ve turned ideas into reality, building functional, scalable, and reliable products. Now, it’s time to build your team. An Engineering Leadership Coach can guide you through challenges both big and small—from recruiting and organizational design to fostering culture and motivation—helping you scale alongside your company.
For Emerging Leaders
As a Software Engineer, you've spent years honing their craft—earning degrees, building side projects, and receiving feedback on pull requests. But when the opportunity to transition into management arises, you may have been left to learn on the job. As a result, you may be tempted to retreat to the familiar—contributing to the codebase—rather than fully stepping into the role of building and leading effective teams. An Engineering Leadership Coach can help tackle the challenges of management.
Services
Building Your Management Toolkit
This program is designed for technical leaders transitioning from hands-on coding to leveraging their team to drive results. Engineering Managers, Directors, and Technical Co-founders will benefit from this course, which focuses on building essential management skills, including:
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Conducting one-on-ones
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Facilitation techniques
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Giving constructive feedback
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Motivating engineers
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Recruiting strategies
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Managing the software development life cycle
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Enhancing communication
Scaling Your Team
This program is designed for technical leaders transitioning from hands-on coding to leveraging their team to drive results. Engineering Managers, Directors, and Technical Co-founders will benefit from this course, which focuses on building essential management skills, including:
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Conducting one-on-ones
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Facilitation techniques
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Giving constructive feedback
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Motivating engineers
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Recruiting strategies
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Managing the software development life cycle
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Enhancing communication
Preparing for Executive Leadership
As leaders prepare to become the senior-most engineering figure in an organization, they must start thinking like a CEO, balancing cross-departmental trade-offs and advocating for engineering where necessary. This program covers critical topics such as:
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Preparing board decks
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Managing managers
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Budgeting and headcount planning
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Communicating effectively with other departments
About Laura
Laura Miyakawa, a seasoned VP of Engineering at Series A & B startups, brings a wealth of experience to help bridge this gap. Laura has scaled engineering teams from one to 35, building cultures that attracted and retained high performers. She has implemented and iterated on processes to meet the needs of a scaling business. She's worked hand-in-hand with product management to launch new products. With management consulting experience at the Boston Consulting Group, and a high level of empathy, Laura is uniquely positioned to coach Engineering Leaders.