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Career Coaching
from a Seasoned Product Executive in Silicon Valley
Get the insights and support you need to supercharge your career growth from a former Chief Product & Technology Officer with leadership experience at Meta/Instagram, Sequoia-Backed Unicorn, and more.
About me
Coaching Experience:
I am a career coach for Directors, Head of, and Founders. I focus on helping aspiring executives build capacity, identify areas of growth, and breakthrough to VP+.
I have coached hundred of clients through successful career transitions and many founder through multiple fundraises. I am also an executive coach for Women In Product and a part of the Asian Women Coaching Collective.
My approach is in coaching is to identify the hurdles holding you back in your career, and then work together to build the scaffolding you need to breakthrough to the next level.
I am your guiding light through confusion, frustration, and exhaustion. We get to the other side and climb the hills together.
I have a straight-forward, no bullshit style. I am action-oriented and believe in getting to tactical, tangible next steps.
Professional experience:
I am currently a venture partner with LifeX Ventures, an $100M early-stage fund investing in Healthtech and Climatech.
Prior, I was the Chief Product & Technology Officer with Fuzzy Pet Health ($88M raised, series C, Matrix, Greycroft). I ran an 100+ person organization including PM, design, engineering and research.
I was also a PM manager at Meta and Instagram and the first PM at Thumbtack (Series I, Sequoia, Google Ventures). I began my career at McKinsey and Company and have tried my hand at a failed wine startup.
I have a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from UCBerkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
My Coaching History
I’ve coached hundreds of clients since 2016. I am a group executive coach for Women In Product and a member of the Asian Womens Coaching Collective.
I’ve helped Senior Managers transition to Director, and Director to VP+. I’ve helped high potential leaders find the right projects to showcase their superpower, navigate politics, and build executive presence. I've helped client negotiate 50K+ compensation increases and land C-level titles.
Beyond it all, I've made many lifetime friends and seen their careers accelerate with my support -- and that is why I invest in coaching others.
Example product coaching topics
Here are some past problems I’ve helped my clients solve.
Career path
I am currently working at a startup as one of the only PMs. I’m learning by doing and want help with developing a career path as the company grows.
Interview and resume
I want to tactically work through my resume and prepare for specific interviews for the product role. I can help with generating a game plan for the overall interview process, prepping for specific interviews, and offer negotiation.
Vision and strategy
I’ve been asked to take on a new product area. How do I go about developing an inspiring vision and strategy?
People management
I’ve recently been promoted to a PM manager -- help me be a good manager!
Career conversations
My career conversations with my manager are awkward and not useful. What’s a good career conversation look like? How do I have them?
Combating bias
I’m the only female/junior/non-technical PM on my team and I feel like I’m being under-estimated. How do I combat this bias?
Testimonials
I reached out to Yue when I was at the crossroads of my career. She gave me a framework and exercises to help me think through different scenarios. We then put those scenarios to practice: I worked with her on various topics, such as leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and managing up. She helped me level up my thinking and made a tremendous impact on accelerating my promotion timelines
PM Lead at LinkedIn
Yue is an amazing coach! Yue gave me a way to think about what I wanted long term and worked with me through how to negotiate the transition in terms of levels and comp. She was vital in every step of the process, from creating a vision of where I wanted to be to the tactical compensation negotiations. Highly recommend!
Director, Series C Healthcare Startup
Yue is on my speed dial. I was recently promoted to manage formerly my peers and I had a bad case of fright and imposter syndrome. Yue helped me think through what type of manager I want to be before jumping into a plan or even reading resources. She really cares for people and is a solid visionary and executor!
Manager, Amazon
Yue was invaluable to me in thinking through and facilitating my move to VP, and then coaching me through the challenges I faced. She helped me better understand how I was limiting myself and my opportunities, and how to adjust it to reach my full potential. I've always appreciated Yue's honesty and 'realness' above all else; it is refreshing and balanced, and I always leave our sessions feeling a renewed sense of clarity and direction.
VP, Consumer Tech Public Company
Yue was a phenomenal mentor and coach. She dug deep into my motivations and shared how I could validate these interests through my ongoing work. She also shedded lights into the different career trajectories to consider based on my passions and skillsets, which was so valuable for me to understand and think about the long term direction. As we established a monthly meet, we would talk through some specific decisions, challenges and thought-process on monthly basis. Yue was never short of spot-on questions, honest feedback and genuinely cares for my growth and well-being. All in all, I can't say enough about Yue's wisdom, knowledge and support for my career development and would highly recommend working with her!
Director, Climate
I found Yue on Google and took a leap of faith when I reached out and paid for the first session. Boy I'm so glad I did! She knows the secrets of getting into SV tech. She helped me prepare for product leadership interviews and land my dream job at a Unicorn startup!
Director, Technology
Services & Pricing
Choose what fits your need best.
1:1 Private Coaching
I partner with my clients to build their confidence, hone in on what truly matters to them and their goals, and put their career on a new trajectory. Sessions are one hour a month with a 6 or 12 month commitment. Includes intake assessments, 360 reviews with key stakholders, and progress checks on milestones every 3 months.
Interested? Got a question?
Drop me a line and I'll respond within 24 hours.
The Uncommon Executive
Breakthrough to the C-Suite as a minority
One of the most challenging, emotional, and time-consuming topics that come up in career conversations is how to break through from middle management into executive levels –VP or C-Suite. It is one topic where I get consistently bombarded with doubt, confusion, and fear.
This book seeks to provide a path forward through that doubt and confusion and be a guide for aspiring executives to follow in their journey to the top. It shines a light on what being an executive truly entails, what hiring committees look for, and what skills are truly critical for success. It then offers off-the-beaten-path (e.g. not white-male-centric) examples and tactics on landing stretch assignments, overcoming biases and stereotypes, finding your superpower, and finding role models in less obvious places.
Confidentiality
I take confidentiality very seriously. All interactions which take place in the setting of career coaching are considered confidential. This includes requests by telephone, all interactions with me, and any progress notes that I take during your sessions. I will not verify that you are a client or use your name or situation publicly in any identifiable way.
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More Resources
More about me
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Reforge course: Breaking Barriers: From Manager to Executive
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Here | are some | product | launches I've worked on in the past.
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