Coaching services

Background & Credentials

My tagline is to be "demanding and passionate" – demanding first and foremost of myself (and a little bit of others too), and passionate about most things I do. Kindness matters too: hopefully you'll perceive this in my coaching style, even as it is mixed with straightforwardness. I look forward to listening to you, and helping you, on various topics listed below.

I was a senior manager at Google for 18 years where I mostly led Developer Relations teams, each headed by their own regional manager across half a dozen geographies spanning most timezones. I also sat on 3 hiring & promotion committees across all continents, and have conducted 400 formal interviews at Google. While at Google, I was also formally trained on coaching techniques and consequently coached 60 managers and individual contributors across all types of organisations and geographies within the company. You can read what some had to say about my mentorship skills in the comments left to my farewell message.

In 2021, I recorded the Coaching Experiment during which I videotaped my coaching of 4 women and men of different origins over the course of 6 months. Prior to Google, I worked as a strategy consultant and in business development, as I enjoyed being at the intersection of the technical and business worlds (I hold an engineering Master's degree and an MBA).

Pricing

My starting* price is $250 a session. Based on the feedback I've received, I am confident you'll get significantly more than your money's worth, through a salary bump, better opportunities, or increased productivity.

If you are however not satisfied with my coaching, I'll give 100% of your money back. How does this work? Simply fill out the feedback form within 24 hours of the session's completion to explain why you were not satisfied and that you'd like to be reimbursed. That's it, no further questions asked.

* This price is applicable for packages of multiple sessions – contact me for details. One-off sessions are charged at $300 per session.

Sessions

Each coaching session lasts 50 minutes with unlimited email exchanges between sessions. Packages of multiple sessions over several months are also offered (e.g. 1 session per month over 6 months).

Interested?

If you are interested in being coached or mentored, feel free to contact me at coaching@seb247.com.

Coaching Topics

  • Leadership & Management – becoming a better manager, managing individual contributors vs. managing managers, dealing with poor and high performers, navigating processes (hiring, performance, promotion, termination) and being effective with distributed, multi-layered teams.
  • Career – career growth, internal mobility, work-life balance, performance, promotion, CV writing, interview preparation.
  • Productivity – program and project management, presentation skills, negotiation, organisational and automation skills, email and time management, use of artificial intelligence.
  • Startup Growth – scaling operations and expanding internationally, pitching to investors, building an MVP, designing a company culture.
  • Running an NGO – tracking progress on the ground and at distance, raising funds, marketing and social media.
  • Personal Financial Planning – review of financial goals, use of various mathematical models (dying with zero, Monte Carlo simulations, Financial Independence & Retire Early, etc.), understanding of international tax & residency laws, investment suggestions.

Feedback Received

You'll find below a playlist of video testimonials of some of the people I have coached over the years (click on the top right icon to view the entire playlist or click on the names below).

Special thanks to the people who accepted to record those videos:
  1. Fabiano Rennó – consulting partner, ex-BCG, ex-chief of staff, Brazil ▶ LinkedIn profile
  2. Charu Kalia – engineering program manager at Google, India ▶ LinkedIn profile
  3. Erica Hanson – head of growth at FlutterFlow, ex-Google, USA ▶ LinkedIn profile
  4. Jannine Versi – health startup cofounder, ex-Google, USA ▶ LinkedIn profile
  5. Putri Izzati – chief marketing officer, Indonesia ▶ LinkedIn profile
  6. Roy Glasberg – VC partner, ex-Google, Israel ▶ LinkedIn profile
  7. Pera Malinda Sihite – director at carbon credit startup, Indonesia ▶ LinkedIn profile
  8. Dushyantsinh Jadeja – tech startup cofounder, ex-Google, India ▶ LinkedIn profile
  9. Yansen Kamto – serial entrepreneur, Indonesia ▶ LinkedIn profile
  10. Michael Adé-George – ex-Google, Switzerland ▶ LinkedIn profile

If those videos aren't enough, you can also read what people I coached at Google had to say about my skills in the comments left to my farewell message.