About Ostara
About
About Ostara
Ostara spent fourteen years building and running teams before becoming a coach, which matters mostly because it means the sessions are not theoretical. The work is with people who got promoted for being good at something and then discovered the job had changed underneath them: senior engineers now running engineers, designers now running design, founders now running a company rather than a product. The common thread is competence in one thing and no map for the next. It is not therapy and it is not mentoring. I do not tell you what I would do, because what I would do is not available to you. The work is structured, it produces something you can act on between every session, and it has a defined end — a coaching relationship that runs indefinitely has usually stopped being coaching.
How I work
What you can count on
It has an end
Twelve weeks, with a defined outcome agreed at the start. A coaching relationship that runs forever has usually stopped being coaching.
Something to do
Every session ends with one specific action before the next one. Insight without a next step is entertainment.
An honest checkpoint
At session four we assess whether this is working. If it is not, we stop and you pay only for what has happened.
Not mentoring
I will not tell you what I would have done, because what I would have done is not available to you.
By the numbers
- 14 yrs
- Building and running teams
- 180+
- People coached
- 12 wks
- A programme, start to finish
- 45 min
- First conversation, free
Press
Press and recognition
Promoting your best engineer
A talk about why the most common promotion in technology is also the most commonly mishandled.
Coaching without the mysticism
A podcast conversation about structured coaching with a defined end.
The first ninety days
Run four times a year, and the most oversubscribed session in the programme.