Outside the day job
Non-Profit Educational Consulting
Mentoring aspiring product and design talent — and guiding meritorious, under-resourced students — for free.
A simple belief
Some of the work I care about most isn't tied to a job title. Over the years I've spent time helping people break into and grow within product and design — and helping meritorious students who can't afford guidance get a fair shot at it. Good guidance shouldn't be a luxury, and the most useful thing an experienced person can offer is honest direction, patiently given.
Mentoring the next generation of builders
I mentor for free on platforms like ADPList, MentorCruise, and Mentoring Club. The questions I help with most: how to break into product management, how to navigate the internal challenges that come once you're in (ambiguity, stakeholder friction, influence without authority), and how to get into design. I try to give honest, specific guidance grounded in what has actually worked — and to be candid about what hasn't.
Educational consulting for under-resourced students
Earlier, frustrated by a market full of expensive, generic “consulting,” I started a small initiative for students who were talented and genuinely in need but couldn't pay for guidance. I recruited candidates who were financially challenged and often misdirected in their careers, then worked to build trust among them so they'd help one another, push them toward directions they hadn't considered, and develop the confidence and communication skills that so much of hiring quietly depends on. I ran it as a program, not a business — no investors, no corporate structure — because the point was the students, not the model.