Meet Fabian

I’m a leadership and management coach with a background in Software Engineering. Programming was my first love at work, and I had a 22-year career as a Software Engineer. Like many of you, I was promoted to management with zero training and no experience. Along the way, I got training, managed a lot of great engineers, and started coaching engineers to become great managers. In the latter part of my career, I became passionate about management and human performance. How could I, as a leader, help my team perform at its very best? Almost as importantly, how could I drive performance in a sustainable and humane way? I had no interest in driving performance through fear or coercion, there had to be a better way.

As a leadership and management coach, I started running an internal management training program in 2017 and I’ve been a full-time coach since 2019. I found coaching as a fantastic craft and discipline to explore and support human performance, including my own. Coaching allows me to do one of the things I most enjoy: talk to people 1-1 and empower them to achieve their goals. It also allows me to be of service and do a little good in the world by helping other humans.

Companies have gotten a lot better about supporting managers. Most have management training programs and realize that being a great individual contributor is different than being a fantastic manager. But how many provide ongoing coaching to their managers and leaders?