Coaching Technology Professionals for Connection and Impact

Welcome to Coaching Technology Group! I’m Tim, Lead Technology Career Coach and Corporate Career Consultant. As a former hiring manager at Wizards of the Coast, I’ve worked in every stage of corporate businesses, startups, bootstrapped companies, and consultancies. Top tech companies have hired our clients, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Visa, and many more. Our team works with clients across the U.S. who are seeking expert guidance in career transitions. We like to think we are the best tech career coaches available, offering practical advice and empathetic support. We work with individuals at any level in their career and specialize in mid-career corporate workers in tech and tech-adjacent roles. We focus our coaching practice on these four areas:

• Corporate job search and career pivots with an emphasis on the actual “how-to” of job search, doing your resume, LinkedIn profile tuning, interview prep, and additional career services and counseling for you get your tech career started or restarted. More than just career advice, we give you personalized attention and share how to do each step of the process.
• Corporate Leadership Coaching for working professionals focused on advanced communication skills and philosophy of management, especially early career and first time managers in corporate settings. Move past Impostor Syndrome and develop soft skills that corporate training seldom discusses.
• Effective Remote Management Skills for individuals navigating the unique challenges of leading remote teams at all levels of experience.
• Early-stage startup company coaching supporting all levels from C-suite to contingent staff to improve communication and culture while preserving the employee’s confidentiality. Very experienced supporting tech startups where no formal HR function exists and workers need coaching support to improve company culture and morale.

Career Coaching and Career Transition

Have the changes in the corporate job market impacted you recently? We work with individuals in many lines of work, though we specialize in tech career coaching. The massive reduction in corporate technology roles has triggered a career crisis for many. Some professionals have had the advantage of a career transition coach to help them navigate and get back into job-seeking in tech by learning the new norms of job search around technology resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn profile and presence, interview prep, and even email outreach templates. We are your holistic partners in finding your career path and landing a new position. With years of expertise in the tech industry (and thoroughly tested approaches) we take you through applying to negotiation and ultimately landing a full-time role by accepting an offer at a place where you can thrive.

You’ll work with me directly with access to a trained Interview Prep coach to help you become an expert storyteller in an interview setting through mock interviews with real people and real-time feedback to make you the best interviewer possible.

If you are currently in tech with a corporate role seeking the next level, want to break into a tech career, or are on a corporate job search, you could use expert support. Our coaching team works with you, the job seeker, in an individualized program to help you understand your career path, the current tech career job market and answer all your practical and tactical questions. Since 2017, we’ve helped several hundred job seekers get back to work in careers and jobs that suit them—check out some of my testimonials on my LinkedIn profile to read what real clients have said about their results!

I am here to help you land your next position.

Click here to book a no-obligation, complimentary discovery call with me.

Delivering the best technology career coaching services 

In addition to being invested in your personal success, you’ll get a resume that recruiters and hiring managers love (plus the knowledge to make the best changes to match your job targets), mastery over your LinkedIn profile to attract views, job search tactics that will save you hours of time (and grief), and interview coaching to ace the face-to-face. Using a Search Engine Optimized (SEO) and language-focused approach can ensure your resume is entirely compatible with corporate applicant tracking systems while tracking the trends that increase your odds of a hiring manager interviewing you. You’ll get my seven-point update to LinkedIn that speaks directly to professional recruiters and genuinely improves traffic to your profile, as well as get one-on-one interview coaching oriented to you and who you are as a person and job seeker.

Individualized Corporate Leadership and Communication Coaching

It can be tough working in tech and corporate environments. Sometimes we find ourselves in leadership positions without much support or training. If this is you, we work together to identify and uncover anything keeping you stuck and discover new ways of being at home and work. As part of your career development, we look at ways of relating to others, delivering on our commitments (especially to ourselves), and being with people in a positive, productive, and fulfilling way. This coaching is sometimes exploratory and sometimes includes real-life exercises and practices to try new skills in relating to people.

Getting communication coaching can be transformative at work. Many of the issues we encounter are based on how we relate and use our communication skills. We can always improve our communication skills through practice. We even have a simple guide to “Core Communication,” which is a model for having difficult conversations where the emotions might run high. Learning this communication skill can help managers deliver difficult news, and help workers discuss topics like raises and promotions without creating negative feelings.

Become a powerful professional communicator and team leader.

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Effective Remote Management Skills

Struggling with team performance managing a remote workforce? I have coached dozens of managers leading teams from remote locations. Dropping by a team member’s desk to talk things over or see what they are working on is impossible when you manage by Slack, email, video, and conference calls. We address the communication and leadership challenges that come with being in tech in a remote manager role. It’s possible to be an effective remote manager by developing useful mindsets and having a clear point of view that starts with you and carries through to your team.

Become an effective remote team leader.

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Early-Stage Startup Company Coaching

Your early-stage startup probably doesn’t have an HR component beyond compliance and onboarding. To attract top talent, consider offering coaching as a company benefit. We offer a fee-for-service model, so you preserve runway and only pay for coaching we deliver to the individuals in the company, billed monthly. We’ve worked with a half-dozen tech startups working to move from 0-1, improving communication, leadership skills, and accountablity in your company culture, including one tech company that landed a $16M Series A.

Offer coaching as a company benefit at your startup.

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Working With A Professional Coach To Develop Your Leadership Skills

Having worked with hundreds of clients in tech and other corporate environments, it’s clear to me that everyone wants a bit more from life (if we could just figure out how to get it). We want to be more satisfied, have better relationships, have easier conversations, and be clear about our intentions. In our coaching, we look at life through the questions: “What if there is nothing to be fixed? What if your life is exactly what you are committed to it being?”

“How You Are Turning Out Right Now” (the way your life is right now, today) is the sum of everything you are truly committed to, consciously and unconsciously. We work together to listen for, uncover, and get clarity around what you truly care about, as revealed through your actions, choices, and the results that you get.

There is never anything wrong or an action that must be taken – we just find what we find, and you decide if how things are right now works best for you. If something works better, we make a plan around doing that thing, starting when you say you’ll start and doing what you commit to doing.

This approach works well for anyone looking to have a breakthrough in their life. I have used it with clients at major employers at all levels of responsibility to grow in their career development, for individuals who are in career transition, both planned and unplanned, and for people who feel “stuck” and don’t know what to do about it.

I am 100% committed to you getting whatever it is you want to have happen.

Click here to book a no-obligation, complimentary discovery call with me.

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Interviews about Job Seeking

Dice, Korn-Ferry Advance, The Seattle Times, and The Muse have interviewed or quoted me about job search. Check out our blog to see a recent video podcast about career change.