Head of Design, Maven. Ex-Airbnb/Twitter

Maven

Airbnb

RISD

Mozilla

Yuan Wang

Head of Design, Maven. Certified Coach. Design Faculty.

Coaching Skills for Leads & Managers

TwitterOAuth

Head of Design at Maven (ex-Airbnb, Twitter, Mozilla). Certified Coach.

Most leaders default to solving. We'll explore what shifts when you coach instead, and when each approach serves people.

Understand the difference between helping and empowering

Practice acknowledging and validating — two skills that build trust faster than any advice.

Make people feel seen without telling them what to do

The right question doesn't just unblock someone today. It changes how they think next time.

Ask questions that build capacity, not dependence

Build Executive Visibility with self-advocacy, assertiveness, influence, conflict, being strategic & navigating organizational dynamics 

 Global VP(ex-IBM); $2B P&L; 2000+ team

Palantir

Google

Microsoft

Amazon

Monica Aggarwal

Executive Leadership I Global VP (ex-IBM) I Engineering, Product & Partnerships

Cohort 12

Cohort 13

You’re already good at your job. That’s not the problem. The problem is this. AI is reshaping how teams work. Roles are shrinking. Layers are flattening. The bar for leadership is rising. The people who advance aren't just the most competent. They're the ones who act like leaders before they get the title. In high-stakes meetings, under pressure, in front of senior leaders, someone is getting that opportunity — because they know how to frame, influence, and command trust in 30 seconds flat. Those skills aren’t taught anywhere. This cohort changes that.Zero passive videos Zero generic advice 9+ hours of Live Practice Lab Every Session includes:• Live role-play using real scenarios • Direct coaching and reframing on the spot • Immediate feedback on language, structure, and delivery • Bite-sized frameworks you can use rightaway • Peer observation (learn 5x faster watching others get coached) What you’ll walk away able to do✔ Frame updates so execs get your impact in 30 seconds ✔ Answer tough questions without rambling ✔ Influence decisions in cross-functional teams ✔ Handle conflict without losing composure ✔ Navigate org dynamics without playing dirty ✔ Make your work impossible to ignore

Own the room. Move the C-suite. Shape the outcome.

How to Advocate for Yourself - Own your story

How to Be Assertive - Lead with conviction, not compliance

How to Influence Without Authority - Get things done when power is distributed

How to Manage Conflict: Handle heat w/o losing your cool

How to Be a Strategic Leader: For clarity & foresight

Navigate Organizational Dynamics - Understand the game & elevate your impact 

You are a Leader of People - Founder, Entrepreneur, CXO, VP, Senior Director, Director, Senior Manager, etc.

Senior Individual Contributors (ICs) - Product Manager, Engineer, Marketing/ Finance/Technical lead, Program/ Project Manager &amp; UX/CX Lead

New In Your Role and looking to develop Executive Visibility right at the outset (Congrats!)

Where human leadership lives in an AI-augmented world.

Executive and Team Coach

Andrea Mignolo

Executive coach, MBA, PCC. Two decades leading teams and developing leaders.

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

You know you need to lead—set direction, make decisions, build systems, develop people. But when you try to hold all of this at once, it blurs together. You're unclear about where your time actually goes versus where it should go.This workshop helps you define and understand your leadership practice in an AI-augmented world.You'll articulate your purpose and vision, clarify the decisions you're driving and the people you're developing, and see how your energy distributes across four distinct roles: leading (enrolling people in vision), directing (translating vision into decisions), managing (building conditions for work), and coaching (developing capacity).Through guided solo work and structured reflection, you'll see exactly where you're over-extended and where you're absent — and understand what needs to shift.You'll leave knowing which roles your context actually demands, where your judgment matters most, and what to stop spending energy on.For more detail about the Leadership Fluency framework, please see this in-depth article: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://methodandmatter.com/words-make-worlds/how-to-lead-when-ai-does-almost-everything/">How to Lead When AI Does (Almost) Everything Else</a>.

Understand the full scope of your leadership role and where to focus your time and energy to be most effective.

Know what grounds your leadership practice

See where your time and energy actually go

Distinguish between four types of leadership work

Recognize what's missing in your leadership practice

Make conscious choices about where to focus

Understand what needs to shift

The workshop maps your current leadership practice. You need active leadership responsibilities to gain the clarity this framework provides.

Currently in a leadership role (managing people, projects, or initiatives)

The Newly Promoted Leader Congrats on the new role! But now you aren't sure what leadership is beyond more meetings and decisions to make.

The Juggling Executive You manage strategy, ops, and people but can't see how it fits together or where to focus your time most effectively.

The Single-Mode Leader You rely on one leadership approach regardless of what's needed. It works sometimes but you're hitting clear limits.

Master the systems to stop micromanaging and transition from a referee to an orchestrator of a self-running team.

Founder at The Strength Hack

Daimler AG

Airbus

Audi

Toll Collect GmbH

Murk Creusen

Founder & Leadership Coach at Strength Hack

Founding Cohort

You cannot fix burnout by working harder. You have a matching problem.AI is making your team's hard technical skills obsolete faster than they can learn them. You cannot fix this "AI anxiety" or burnout by asking them to work harder. You don't have an effort problem; you have a matching problem.Most Engineering Managers spend 70% of their week trapped in the "Mediocrity Loop" - refereeing personality clashes, fixing broken handoffs, and watching their team's shared knowledge collapse as junior roles vanish. You're bleeding runway and morale.This 30-day accelerator gives you the system to break out. Using the Big Five (or CliftonStrengths) assessment, a proven framework, and the Strength Hack AI, you'll map your team's cognitive architecture and engineer the conditions for psychological safety - not just hope for it.In 4 weeks, you will:<ul><li>Stop Generalist Exhaustion: Identify energy leaks and delegate based on Cognitive Fit, not calendar space. </li><li>Engineer Swift Trust: Use the 6-dimension Matching Compass to translate friction into synergy.</li><li>Drive ROI: Transition from a reactive referee to a strategic orchestrator</li></ul>

Engineer Psychological Safety. Stop Refereeing Your Team.

Shortcut the "Storming" Phase to Engineer Swift Trust

Reclaim 70% of Your Week (Plug the Energy Leak)

Turn Personality Clashes into Solvable Data

Restore the "Who Knows What" Architecture Your Team Lost

Walk Away with a "Plug-and-Play" Facilitation Kit

To get ROI from this course, a real-world team (direct reports or agile squads) is recommended to apply the Matching Compass frameworks.

Team Leadership or Management Role

You must take the free Big Five test (or CliftonStrengths) before to map your personal psychological operating system.

Completion of a Baseline Assessment

The Overwhelmed Engineering Manager / Tech LeadYou lead a hybrid or remote team. You want a data-driven system, not another workshop.

The Ambitious Senior / Staff Engineer<blockquote>You're moving to people manager. You want proven frameworks to lead a team without micromanaging.</blockquote>

The People-Conscious CTO / CPO<blockquote>You own culture and delivery for 10–200 people. Your board wants AI readiness. You need L&amp;D that's credible.</blockquote>

Shift from "Hero Manager" burnout to high-impact coaching with AI.

Accredited Sales Leadership Coach

Indeed

Linda Scotti 

Executive Coach Driving Measurable Leadership Effectiveness and Behaviour

<h3>​Most sales managers were promoted because they were great at developing people. But between pipeline reviews and firefighting, that purpose often gets lost. You end up in "Hero Mode"—solving everyone's problems while your team becomes dependent on you for answers. This cycle creates a ceiling on performance and leads to burnout. This workshop is a leadership transformation designed to break that cycle.</h3>​The Preparation GapWe tackle the friction of leadership by moving you from stress-led improvisation to structured coaching. You will learn to manage the Emotional Tax of leadership by using AI to remove reactivity from difficult feedback, allowing for objective and calm dialogue.​The Ownership ProblemWe shift the burden of growth from your shoulders back to your reps. You will learn to use AI as a strategic thinking partner that surfaces the critical questions you aren't asking. By the end, you will have a repeatable coaching workflow and a complete AI-assisted playbook.​The TransformationStop being the person with all the answers and start being the coach who builds independent teams. Give yourself back the tools and confidence to lead the way you always intended.

Move from "Hero Manager" burnout to high-impact coaching. Use AI as a thinking partner to build rep ownership and drive performance. 

🦸‍♂️ Exit "Hero Mode" and Burnout

🤖 Master AI as a Thinking Partner

⚖️ Navigating High-Stakes 1:1s

📈 Driving Rep Ownership

📋 Build a Repeatable Coaching System

The Hero Leader, exhausted from "rescuing" the team. Stop being the answer machine and start building a team that thinks for itself.

Frontline Managers and Team Leads ready to run more effective 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and rep development conversations in less time.

Sales and Enablement Leaders who want to elevate coaching from intuition to insight using AI, without losing the human touch.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Welcome and Introductions

Introduction to Coaching Skills for Managers

Agenda: Coaching vs. Mentoring, Acknowledging, and Energy Levels

The Coaching Dial: Coaching vs. Mentoring Explained

Situational Leadership: When to Coach and When to Mentor

Core Skill: How to Acknowledge Effectively

Core Skill: The Power of Validation

Practical Example: Acknowledging and Validating a Frustrated Employee

The Energy Ladder: Tailoring Your Coaching Approach

Summary and Key Takeaways

Coaching Toolkit and Resources

Q&A Session

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Designers who craft user experiences, interfaces, and visual design.

User researchers conducting interviews, usability studies, and customer research to inform product decisions.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Day-to-day people management — 1:1s, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team operations.

Coaching Skills for Leads & Managers

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

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Yuan Wang