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The fast start to being PM interview ready, from someone who's been on both sides of the table. The work was never the problem. Your experience is real. What costs people the offer is translating that experience into the story that lands, under pressure, in a room where someone is deciding in real time whether you're the one. I've been on both sides of that table. Over twenty years leading product at Amazon, including Prime Video and Alexa, and at Box, Iterable, Apollo, and Marketo, I was hired and hired and built teams from the ground up, and I've won the interview loop myself, including three times at Amazon. I know what a strong product candidate sounds like, where good people lose the room, and what it takes to convert under pressure. This is the fast start that gets you there. What's included: * Resume and LinkedIn assessment. You send both. I give you written and verbal feedback, not a rewrite, so you see exactly what a hiring bar sees and where you're losing signal, then sharpen it yourself. * Up to 5 STAR stories, built to flex. We develop your core narratives, the wins, the hard calls, the failures you grew from, so each one adapts across behavioral, leadership, and product questions instead of working only once. * 2 mock interview sessions with direct feedback on substance, signal, and presence. You fix it here, and enter the room with confidence. Five-plus hours of focused, senior-level prep. The jumpstart, not the kitchen sink. Optional Add-ons: Go deeper after your Jumpstart This is all optional. Once we've worked together and seen where you are, we can shape next steps if you want to go further in the areas that matter most: * Deeper story work: more narratives beyond your core five, executive-presence and leadership-signal coaching, and tightening delivery for senior loops. * Resume and LinkedIn intensive: a working deep-dive on positioning for a level-up, with multiple drafts reviewed. * Extra mock rounds until you feel confident. * Amazon-specific prep: the Leadership Principles, the Bar Raiser format, and your stories rebuilt as LP-mapped answers, from someone who's won the loop three times. We'll talk through the hours and what makes sense for your timeline and your target roles after the Jumpstart. You'll walk in with your story cold, your materials sharp, and the composure that comes from having faced the hard questions before they count. If you've spent your career being underestimated, this is where you stop hoping they'll notice and start making sure they do. Kind enough to tell you the truth. Tough enough to walk through it with you.
A resume and LinkedIn profile you've sharpened to pass a real hiring bar, with a clear view of what was costing you signal
Up to 5 STAR stories you own and can reuse across every interview after this one, built to flex from behavioral to leadership to product questions
Two mock interviews behind you, with direct feedback on substance, signal, and presence
A clear read on where you're strong and where you lose the room, so you know exactly what to tighten
The composure that comes from having faced the hard questions before the ones that count
Coaching delivered via live sessions.
Services included:
LinkedIn Review
Resume Review
Product Case Interview Prep
Behavioral Interview Prep
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Joined March 2026
Executive Leadership & Product Coach | x-Amazon, Box, Iterable, Apollo
I'm the founder of Kind But Tough, an executive and product coaching practice built on a simple conviction: true leadership isn't a choice between empathy and accountability, it's the radical integration of both. Before coaching, I spent over twenty years in product, building and scaling enterprise B2B/B2B2C/B2C SaaS at Amazon, including Seller Central, Prime Video and Alexa, and at Box, Iterable, Apollo, and Marketo. I've built products from the ground up, hired and grown the teams and culture around them, and led the launch of Journey Assist, a first-to-market gen-AI journey builder. Across my career I've owned the strategy behind more than $200M in active ARR growth, navigated the politics that come with leadership, made the hard calls under real pressure, and sat on the hiring side deciding who got the offer. I know this work from the inside, the wins, the failures, and the inflection points where the skills that got you here stop being the ones that carry you forward. I coach product builders and leaders the way I led: kind enough to tell you the truth, tough enough to walk through it with you. As a Gallup CliftonStrengths and UC Berkeley certified executive coach, I ground your growth in your real strengths rather than a generic playbook. Whether you're sharpening strategy, stepping into people leadership, weighing an AI-first bet, or preparing to land your next role, you get a thinking partner who has actually been in the seat, sees the patterns you can't, and is in it with you.