Leading the people you used to code beside
The shift from individual contributor to leader is a change of craft, not a promotion.
Forest Authority · design system
Helping engineers become people-first leaders.
Writing, coaching and tools for engineers stepping into leadership — and the living design system behind all of it. Honest, warm, and built to last.
What I help with
Three threads
Building teams that outlast the burnout
Sustainable pace is a design decision. Here is how to make it on purpose.
Adopting AI without losing the plot
Pragmatic, humane ways to bring AI into an engineering org that already works.
“Authority is borrowed from the people you serve — never taken.”— the founding idea behind Forest Authority