About Jay

A lot of high-performing tech professionals are doing good work, but it’s taking more out of them than they want to admit. That’s usually where I come in. I’m Jay Floyd, a leadership coach and former Data Engineering Manager at Zapier with 15+ years across data engineering, analytics engineering, data platforms, governance, and technical leadership. I’ve managed technical teams, coached engineers and managers, and worked across Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, and leadership spaces where the pressure was real and the answers weren’t always obvious. So when I coach, I’m not coming at it from theory. I know what it feels like to be the person people count on. The one who can figure it out. The one who gets handed the messy thing because everybody assumes you’ll find a way. That ability can take you far. It can also start taking too much from you. The people I work with usually aren’t failing. They’re capable, responsible, and serious about the work. They care about doing a good job. They care about leading well. But something in the way they’re operating has started creating too much drag. Maybe they’re second-guessing more than usual. Maybe feedback is hitting harder than it used to. Maybe they’re carrying too much pressure into conversations. Maybe they’re growing into leadership and trying not to become some fake version of themselves in the process. I help people slow down enough to see what’s actually happening. Where is the friction coming from? Where are they overworking? Where are they communicating from pressure instead of clarity? Where are they trying to lead in a way that doesn’t really fit how they’re built? My coaching is direct, practical, and honest. I’m not here to hype you up for an hour and send you back into the same cycle. I’m here to help you understand the pattern, clean up the design, and build a way of leading that feels steadier, clearer, and more sustainable. You may not need to work harder. You may just need a cleaner way to lead. That’s the work I care about: helping strong people communicate more clearly, trust themselves more deeply, and succeed without losing so much of themselves in the process.