Engineering Career

Level Up

Life-changing content condensed into a 6-week course + 6 private 1-on-1 sessions + daily Voxer and e-mail support for 4 months.

This is a “done-with-you” program, where you and I focus on:

getting clarity around your fulfillment, desired career path, and potential limiting beliefs that might be holding you back from advancing, moving on, or even making a decision on what to do next,
building confidence by getting real about your unique set of strengths and creating habits that will accelerate your progress, regardless of your chosen domain or career path,
improving your soft and people skills, so that you can showcase yourself as the valuable professional you are, instead of hiding behind a screen, being invisible and passed on for raises, promotions, and failing in interviews.

In addition to the deep dives in the 1-on-1 sessions, you also get unlimited email and daily Voxer support for 4 months.

Here’s The Process In A Nutshell

As we work together, we start by getting a deep understanding of what makes you tick in life and what your personal definition of "fulfillment" is.

Then, we go through reprogramming your thought processes (to transform how you see yourself and build confidence). We work on attitudes and appearances (internal pitches to managers about raises and promotions, LinkedIn profile) and transform how others see you.

In the next step, we work through ways of acing your job at hand while avoiding burnout. We dive into the soft (but essential) skills required to advance in any Engineers career track (both managerial and technical). Finally, we nail down the World Of Opportunities (how to create and attract opportunities) and the Companies That Fit (Companies in the market that support your desired lifestyle, career goals, and values).

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Detailed Outline: Session By Session

Here’s the framework that you’ll follow session by session (recommended on a weekly or every other week schedule) as a part of your initial pre-work and self-study, and then we do a 1-on-1 deep dive where every session is filled with details tailored to your specific situation and you get feedback on how to use what you’ve learned in leveling up your career.

Session 1 - Understand Who You Are & What You Want

At the very beginning of the course we nail down what are your values, your strengths, and how does fulfilling life look like for you. This is a crucial step that requires deep thinking and will lay the foundation for most of the work in the remaining weeks of the course.

We get clear here on what it is exactly that you want, so you can actually get it.

In this session, we walk through how your current workplace supports the values you want to live by and assess whether or not it’s time to move on. And if it is - we discuss what are some value-based questions to ask in an interview setting, so that you have a way of evaluating a company’s fit to your desired lifestyle before you even join them.

Session 2 - Transform Your Thought Processes

The second week is focused on getting a solid understanding of how human brains evolved to work, so you can reprogram your own brain, and refactor the unhelpful and limiting beliefs, and update your internal programming to contain empowering beliefs instead.

With this session alone you’ll have the tools to massively increase your confidence levels, so that you can step into new roles you’ve been dreaming of and now feel ready for (like becoming a CTO; or a Staff Engineer at a FAANG company).

Session 3 - Transform How Others See You

Technical mastery is not enough to succeed in an Engineers role. Yet most Engineers I work with overvalue technical skillset. When you’re the Subject Matter Expert getting lost in your own expertise halts your career, not to mention exacerbating this awful feeling of “Am I working with idiots? Why nobody pays attention to my ideas?”.

In this week we focus on understanding the Business side we work with, so it’s easier to talk to the non-technical stakeholders, so you get better at pitching your ideas and get more buy-in for your initiatives, and be seen as the valuable professional you are.

Session 4 - Ace Your Job While Avoiding Burnout

This week is focused on short-term and long-term planning, increasing productivity and performance at work and in life, so you can get your work deliverables on time, and keep moving forward in the direction you most desire. In this week we make sure if you have time and energy for what matters, and that it gets on a calendar.

Don’t be the Software Engineer that only owns features or products at work. Own your own time, so you can make laps around your competition, advancing through the ranks at a spectacular speed. Senior Engineer to Team Lead to Director to VP in two years? Totally doable, once you set the intention… and plan.

Session 5 - The Soft (But Essential) Skills

In the 5th session, we discuss how to excel in communication, and how to negotiate, so you become a teammate that everybody wants on their team. We also dive into setting boundaries and expectations, that have the potential to massively improve the quality of your life.

You’ll get a list of specific things to focus on when communicating with others, and we’ll also improve your LinkedIn profile, so you can stand out from the crowd.

Session 6 - Companies That Fit

Here we nail down what kind of workplaces are best aligned for you. Is it corporate? Startup? Consulting? Freelancing? What industry? What size? We answer these questions, do the market research and finally set up Google Alerts for interesting jobs.

The work we do here makes it much clearer on how to design your career path, so you know when and where to go next.

Watch case study video that explains the above mentioned steps

Here’s what people say about working with me (and their results):

João G.

(Sr Engineer to Startup CTO as a result of us working together)

Dagna helped me reach my potential.

I hired her, as my Career Coach, cause I wasn’t able to showcase myself as a valuable professional. Even after having over 9 years of experience.

Not only did she do what I asked for, in terms of helping me to come out of my shell and redefine my image as a professional, but she also showed me better ways to look for jobs, helped me believe in myself, kept me accountable, and set me up for success.

The coaching package has been a fantastic investment. It provided much more value than I was expecting.

Ian S.

(Doubled his salary 109k -> 220k)

As we worked together, in our final session, I asked him how he’d sum up our coaching and he called it his personal Shaw Shank Redemption!

“Before that [the coaching] I was stuck in my old ways.

I was in prison, and now [after the coaching] I’m living a different life.

I have realized that I feel freer as a person. I feel that I have a choice. I don’t have to worry about getting stuck.

50% of credit goes to the coaching, and the other 50% was me acting and putting the work in. But without the coaching I would not have had that different perspective. I would’ve been stuck in my old ways of thinking and in my old job, cause I didn’t even realize there are so much better opportunities out there for me.

The sessions and materials we went through are really informative.

Especially the performance optimization. That worked really well.

I didn’t realize there’s a science to a lot of the things we talked about.”

Abi K.

(Got past Imposter Syndrome and gained professional confidence as an Engineer)

A talented career coach, Dagna, helped me to build structure and routine into my self-care habits to ultimately help me overcome Imposter Syndrome.

Imposter Syndrome and other negative thought patterns had started to complicate my career progression, but Dagna's personalized toolkit - journaling, affirmations, and a wealth of mindfulness-focused reading materials - helped me rewrite the "legacy programming" of my mind and step into the professional confidence I deserve. The perspective I've gained in this process gave me an edge in professional (and even personal) situations. Dagna's coaching has been invaluable for me.