It's a fact that, more often than not, we face various career challenges. Recently there's been a plethora of challenges facing humanity. Take a look back at 2019 when Covid-19 hit. There was a drastic drop in hiring as companies tried to determine how they would make things work. Companies…

I run the Intentional Product Manager. I am big on setting the right intention 😇. Sometimes though, good intent still leads to bad outcomes. Let’s explore the most common cases where people start with the right intention but get bad outcomes. Postponing your dream job Let’s say you want to ultimately work for Facebook…

So, did you land your dream job? This is the one question that frustrates and irks my clients most. They have been working hard to land that dream role, but they have still not found it or accepted something because they were ready to give up. And that dream stopped…

In all of our careers, there are those truths that perhaps we would rather ignore. Maybe we would rather stay ignorant of them as a whole. Regardless of our feelings toward them, they are ever-present. While ignorance may be bliss, it is at the detriment of our progress. To operate…

Searching for new positions and the interviewing process in itself can be a grueling task. It can become mundane and joyless. We believe it should not be this way. When we get it right, we can love the job search process, we can get over disappointments faster, and we can…

As a Product Manager and a coach, I have found one sad thing to be true — most Product Managers will do what others tell them to do and consistently avoid conversations related to their careers. They spend 100% of their energy managing their product and none on their job…

Your mindset determines how you perceive the world, yourself, and the future. It helps you define what is true for you. It is the lens via which we see everything. I have had the pleasure of coaching 100s of high performers. When they start working with me, they often want…

“I feel stuck in my career.” Those are words that I regularly hear when I speak to product managers. We all feel as though we are stuck at some point or another. The question to ask ourselves is, “what am I going to do about it?”. A few of my…

Roughly four years ago, I decided to get a coach. I realized the importance of having someone who can be a sounding board, someone who challenges my thinking and gets me out of my own way. That is what good coaching does for your career. However, most Product Management programs…