Jay Mandel

Executive and leadership coaching

Executive coaching for the decisions and conversations that shape your role.

Your work may carry more value than your title or current mandate reflects. I help you explain that value, prepare for difficult conversations, and make choices about the role and authority you need.

At a glance

Purpose
Coaching for founders, marketers, and technical leaders who need to clarify their value, communicate business stakes, and make consequential role decisions.
Includes
Clarify the decision, audience, stakes, and current account of your value. Translate experience and achievements into business implications supported by evidence. Practice conversations and pressure-test relevant profiles, presentations, or interview stories. Agree on actions between sessions and review what changed. Set a coaching cadence around your needs.
Expected outcomes
Explain your judgment and contribution in terms the people you need to influence can use. Practice asking for the authority, support, or role the work requires. Connect your ambitions to a practical plan. Coaching does not guarantee a promotion or job offer.
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Who this is for

Founders, marketing VPs and directors, technical leaders, and senior experts preparing for a role change, greater responsibility, or a consequential stakeholder conversation.

The challenge

Strong work does not explain itself. If others cannot connect your expertise to business decisions, you may struggle to gain support, define your mandate, or tell a credible story about your next role.

When the work fits

When this service makes sense.

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Scope of work

What I do inside this service.

  1. Clarify the decision, audience, stakes, and current account of your value.
  2. Translate experience and achievements into business implications supported by evidence.
  3. Practice conversations and pressure-test relevant profiles, presentations, or interview stories.
  4. Agree on actions between sessions and review what changed. Set a coaching cadence around your needs.

What you receive

Clear outputs before the next decision.

What changes

01

A credible account of your value

Explain your judgment and contribution in terms the people you need to influence can use.

02

Better prepared conversations

Practice asking for the authority, support, or role the work requires.

03

A deliberate next step

Connect your ambitions to a practical plan. Coaching does not guarantee a promotion or job offer.

Your part in the work

Bring a real decision or conversation, relevant examples, and time to practice between sessions. You choose and carry out the actions; we agree on what material to discuss and the boundaries of the engagement.

How we review progress

Track the goal you brought: a clearer leadership story, readiness for a difficult conversation, stakeholder feedback, or action on a role decision. Review progress together rather than using session attendance as the measure.

Discuss your goal and what progress would look like

A related engagement

Technical leader coaching: Miguel S. Hill.

Career direction, executive communication, business cases, and leadership planning. See the challenge, my contribution, and the documented deliverables.

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Evidence, not claims

See the thinking behind the work.

A nearly five-year technical leadership coaching partnership →

Scope, timing, and fee

A focused session or ongoing coaching relationship. We agree on goals, cadence, preparation, boundaries, and fee before starting.

Planning the timeline

We agree on session length, frequency, preparation, and a review point before starting. A focused conversation and an ongoing relationship need different commitments; there is no fixed promise of a career outcome.

We agree on the intended outcome and how to review progress. I do not guarantee a particular financial return.

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Questions about cost, timing, or results?

Understand how we set scope, agree on fees, and review progress before you commit.

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Credentials behind the approach

AgileBrain practitioner certification supports values and motivation conversations in coaching. Responsible AI and organizational learning credentials inform discussions about AI adoption and team development.

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Start with the opportunity

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