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 25+ 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.