Offered by John V.

Joined August 2026

Advance Your Career and Navigate Pivots, Whatever Your Background

My own career has been a series of pivots — into a non-technical field with no formal training, across industries from healthtech startups to Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs to Hinge, and up from individual contributor to Chief of Staff and team leader. I've had to figure out how to break into rooms I didn't have an obvious path into, build credibility without the "standard" resume for the job, and manage the self-doubt that comes with feeling behind people who took a more conventional route. I bring that same real-world navigation to coaching: less theory, more "here's exactly what worked when I was in your shoes." As a people manager, the part of my job I care about most is developing others. I've coached colleagues, direct reports, and people outside my own company through promotions, career pivots, and first-time transitions into new roles, often when they didn't have much other support to draw on. I know what it's like to navigate a career mostly through mentorship rather than a clear ladder, and I try to be that same resource for the people I work with now, whether you're trying to break into a new field, grow in your current one, or figure out what's next when the path isn't obvious.