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A collection of Joel Chippindale's infrequent reckons

Recommended links about coaches

People who offer coaching services. Includes sections on engineering & technical leadership, founders, product, executive & general leadership, career transitions and communication & speaking.

  • Joel Chippindale (me)
    I work with start-up and scale-up CTOs and suppor them to successfully navigate the changes in their roles as their team and company evolves
  • Gergely Orosz's recommended coaches and mentors
    Gergely's recommendations both personal and from trusted sources
  • Ariane Paraskevopoulos
    Ariane is an experienced coach who works to support people in their mid-life, who are looking for change, to think about what next
  • Cat Totty Coaching
    Cat supports Founders, CEOs and senior leaders transform themselves to transform the world.
  • Coaches for early stage companies
    Josh Herzig-Marx's a list of coaches, across a range of disciplines, who specialise in early stage companies
  • CTO Craft
    CTO Craft have a roster of over 30 CTO coaches (including me) and will talk to you about your needs and then be able to recommend a few coaches who could work with you.
  • Douglas Squirrel
    Squirrel as a Service offers flexible help (both coaching and advice) when you need it
  • Flora Devlin
    Flora is a coach to founders and executives at VC-backed tech companies who want to ignite progress across strategy, leadership and personal growth.
  • Frank & Eddy Leadership
    Alia and Fiona coach product and engineering leaders of organizations of 40 to 400 people
  • James O'Halloran
    James has been a Founder coach since 2015, based in Bristol. Working with James isn’t about short term ROI, it’s about fundamental change in your personal vision, company direction and management of your team
  • Jennifer Clamp
    Jennifer specialises in providing coaching for female founder CEOs
  • Jonathan Kahn
    Jonathan offers one-to-one Communication Coaching to support the development of your skills in public speaking, handling conflict and giving feedback
  • Josh Herzig-Marx
    Josh helps early stage-product leaders through coaching and mentorship.
  • Jossie Haines
    Jossie is an executive coach, who specialises in coaching women leaders in tech.
  • Julia Whitney
    Julia offers leadership, crossroads and team coaching
  • Kate Bradshaw
    Kate's coaching was an invaluable in helping me better understand myself, challenge my fears and take greater control to successfully navigate my most recent career change. I highly recommend Kate to anyone looking for a coach.
  • Kate Sandars
    Kate is an Executive Coach, who supports private and corporate clients with leadership development, growth and career transition, with a particular focus on tech / media companies.
  • Kevin Ball
    Kevin works with motivated software engineers and engineering managers to help them navigate the transition from execution to influence.
  • Laura Morgan
    Laura is an experienced product manager and an excellent coach who supports product professionals
  • Lena Reinhard
    Having spent the last decade growing engineering organisations, Lena now offers empowering engineering management & leadership coaching
  • Luca Sartoni
    Luca Sartoni's Remote Leadership Works provides coaching and training to new engineering managers
  • Mags Hanley
    Mags is based in Australia and offers career coaching and mentoring for design professionals
  • Mark Farrer-Brown
    Mark is a founder coach to scale up CEOs
  • Mary Butler
    Mary is based in Australia offers leadership coaching to founders to help them grow with their startup
  • Ruth Penfold-Jones
    Ruth is a coach who supports you to accelerate the development of your leadership skills and to create an environment where your teams can win, and watch your business flourish.
  • Sanja Moll
    Sanja supports founders, leaders and executives of entrepreneurial companies to scale themselves and their companies with grace and clarity
  • Sara Shondrick
    Sara is a leadership coach who specialises in working with scientists-turned-leaders.
  • Seb Agertoft
    Seb has a background in product and helps Founders and Leaders to build the skills and mindset to thrive.
  • Simon Pearson
    Simon Pearson provides 1-1 coaching to support Product Managers
  • Stefan J Hull
    Stefan is a coach who supports agency leaders to grow their businesses
  • Tony Piper
    Tony is a coach who is at his best when he is helping you achieve your goals
  • Vandena Daya
    Vandena is an excellent coach who helps her clients clarify personal and business goals, evaluate and manage career changes, and improve leadership capabilities
  • Women in tech coaches
    Lulu Cheng's list of women in tech who offer coaching services
  • Young Women's Trust
    This fabulous charity offers free coaching programmes to women, who are aged 18-30 and live in England or Wales.

Engineering & technical leadership

Coaches who specialise in engineering and technical leaders

  • Alex Martynov
    Alex is a leadership coach who helps people experience their work in a profoundly satisfying and fulfilling way.
  • Amy Rich
    Amy is passionate about supporting engineering leaders like you in overcoming your toughest challenges and transforming your vision into reality.
  • Anemari Fiser
    Amemari combines technical, leadership and coaching skills to help people get the best out of themselves!
  • Blanca Garcia Gil
    Blanca focusses coaches technical leaders and those carving their own paths: senior engineers, staff+ engineers, and architects
  • Boomie Odumade
    Boomie offers 1:1 coaching for engineers and engineering leaders — covering topics from career clarity, to reaching career goals, to leading teams and individuals, to job search support
  • Cara Wilson
    Cara Wilson is an experienced executive coach for engineering leaders and team coach for engineering teams
  • Carol Palombini
    Carol's coaching supports CTOs to grow in their careers and better understand their teams
  • Cate Huston
    Cate loves working with Staff+ engineers figuring out how to scale their impact, and engineers stepping into leadership roles. She also loves to work with engineers in a time of transition or pressure, helping them move to a place of empowered choice.
  • Clement Pickering
    Clem works with people at all stages of their leadership journey, whether you’re just starting out in tech, have taken on a team lead role for the first time, or are at a senior leadership or executive level.
  • Dan Bartlett
    Dan helps engineers, leaders & founders working in Tech to restore their purpose and accelerate their impact through 1:1 coaching, mentoring, and group coaching.
  • Dan Smith
    Dan is an experienced Advisor and Coach who works with scale-up and enterprise CTOs and CEOs
  • Francis Lacoste
    Francis coaches CTOs and VPEs to become leaders who nurture amazing engineering cultures. He helps his clients transition from “building the product” into “building the org that builds the product”
  • Irene Anggreeni
    Irene empowers tech leaders to build high-performing teams that deliver exceptional results—without burnout.
  • Jessica Tai
    Jessica offers career coaching to leaders from underrepresented groups in technology
  • Noah Cantor
    Noah coaches engineering leaders from overwhelmed to overachieving, and supports them to bring peace, satisfaction, and growth to themselves and their teams.
  • Sarah Milstein
    Sarah helps executives and emerging leaders level up their effectiveness and job satisfaction. She has particular experience in tech and media companies and has run remote and hybrid teams for 25 years.
  • Stefan Ross
    Stefan coaches engineering and non-technical leadership at tech startups and scaleups, partnering with curious, pragmatic professionals who seek meaningful solutions.
  • Theresa Aristarco
    Theresa is a leadership coach who helps ambitious product and engineering leaders grow effectively, strategically, and sustainably.
  • Tobi Tonner
    Tobi offers growth leadership coaching to individuals and innovative companies. He focuses on building self-awareness and developing leadership habits for success. In the past he has led software engineering teams in startups and scaleups.
  • Val Dryden
    Val offers no bullshit Engineering Manager coaching because there's no undo button for people

Founders

Coaches who work with founders and CEOs

  • Ellen Donnelly
    Ellen is a strategic business coach for self-made founders building thought leadership led businesses without outside funding.
  • Founder Coaches Network
    A network of highly recommended coaches for founders (including me 😀)
  • Freddie Birley
    Freddie Birley is a coach to founders and VCs
  • Startup Happiness
    Marcia Swenson and Dale Larson help founders grow as fast as their companies.

Product

Coaches who specialise in product leaders and managers

  • Chloé HC
    Chloe is coach who provides strategic support for leaders in high-stakes roles, helping them tranform their communication and level up their influence.
  • Kate Leto
    Kate offers 1:1 product leadership coaching, to support new and established senior product leaders seeking to improve their performance and create better outcomes.

Executive & general leadership

General executive and leadership coaches

  • Astrid Korin
    Astrid is a Transformational Executive Coach who helps leaders and organisations thrive by cultivating resilience and presence from the inside out
  • Clare Downes
    Coaching business leaders and athletes to embrace a high performance mindset
  • Erich Nerhlich
    Eric is an executive coach who loves to identify and challenge mindsets and habits that hold people back from their next level of leadership, especially as they reach the executive level.
  • George Sudarkoff
    George coaches senior leaders with ADHD who are done white-knuckling it — and ready to lead with their brain instead of against it.
  • Richard Hughes-Jones
    Richard is an excellent Executive Coach to CEOs and senior technology leaders.

Career transitions

Coaches who help with career changes and transitions

  • Cate Huston
    Cate loves working with Staff+ engineers figuring out how to scale their impact, and engineers stepping into leadership roles. She also loves to work with engineers in a time of transition or pressure, helping them move to a place of empowered choice.
  • Connie Liu
    Whether you’re a founder, career changer, or team leader, Connie will help you find your true north, and then weather the highs and lows to get there.

Communication & speaking

Coaches who specialise in communication and public speaking

  • Claire Shaw
    Voice and communication coach for women
  • Melinda Seckington
    Melinda is an excellent coach, advisor and mentor to people who want to improve their skills as a speaker
  • Paul Ryan
    Speaker trainer and executive coach

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