Career advisory for designers
Most designers don't need more advice. They need a clearer read on what to do next.
I work with experienced designers who are stuck, uncertain, or stuck in loops they half-recognize, and want a straight conversation with someone who's watched these decisions play out, for better and worse.
This isn't coaching in the motivational sense. It's practical career advisory, shaped by 29 years inside agencies, startups, and product teams.
Career advisory
This is a one-hour career advisory session for designers.
We focus on a real decision you're facing, direction, positioning, pricing, or whether to keep doing what you're doing at all, and work through it together.
It's not coaching, therapy, or general advice. It's a focused working conversation, grounded in how design careers actually play out in the real world.
When this tends to be useful
This is usually a good fit if you're asking things like:
- Should I keep freelancing, or is it time to look for something else?
- Why do I keep getting the wrong kind of clients?
- Am I underpricing, or just in the wrong market?
- Should I specialize, or am I about to box myself in?
- What's the realistic next step from where I am now?
You don't need to have a polished question. Part of the work is figuring out what the real problem actually is.
What we work on
A session is a working conversation. We typically focus on:
- Clarifying what you're actually optimizing for (money, autonomy, stability, growth)
- Making sense of recurring patterns in clients, roles, or income
- Pressure-testing decisions before you commit to them
- Reframing your positioning without pretending there's a silver bullet
- Identifying what to stop doing, not just what to do next
I'll share how I see it. Sometimes that includes disagreeing with your assumptions.
How this is different from most coaching
Most coaching stays neutral. I don't.
You're not paying for encouragement or accountability. You're paying for judgment, shaped by building products, leading design teams, hiring designers, and watching a lot of career decisions work (and fail) over time.
My role isn't to keep you "on track." It's to help you make clearer choices and live with the trade-offs.
Pricing
Career advisory session
$175
- 60 minutes
- One focused conversation
- No packages, no subscription, no pressure to continue
I know most designers don't have spare cash lying around. This is priced to be a real decision, not a luxury purchase.
You can book one session, see if it's useful, and stop there.
How to get started
Book a session when you have a real question you want to think through. If it makes sense to talk again later, we'll decide that then.