You’re responsible for delivering.
Are you and your team struggling to deliver?
Do you feel stuck in a cycle of firefighting and frustration?
Imagine leading a team that delivers high-quality software—on time and with confidence.
Hi. I’m Matt. I’ve spent 20+ years leading engineering teams, shipping software, and fixing broken processes. I’ve seen what makes teams thrive—and what holds them back. Now, I help technical leaders like you cut through the chaos and build high-performance teams that actually ship.
If you’re ready to take the next step to level up, or to help your team level up, I’m here to support you.
Technical teams often fail to deliver for one of six reasons
1. Poor collaboration within the team creates misalignment and silos.
Fix it by optimizing team dynamics and feedback loops.
2. Poor collaboration outside the team creates disconnection from the business.
Address by making the impact visible and fixing external feedback loops.
3. The team doesn’t have all the necessary skills to complete the work.
Address by acquiring needed skills or modifying workflows to move work around.
4. External pressures and demands create disruptions and constant priority shifts.
Fix by making the impact visible, working smaller, and looking upstream.
5. The team is overloaded with responsibilities. Everything takes longer, and it feels like nothing ever gets done.
Address by clarifying and simplifying what needs to be done, and delivering on that!
6. Constant bugfixing and firefighting means the team is unable to build something new.
Break the cycle by remediating issues as part of new work and connecting to bigger goals.
Unfortunately, even if these reasons are all beyond the control of the team and their manager, this looks a certain way to everyone else:
It looks like the manager is not leading well.
Fortunately, though, there is hope!
Coaching can help you address all these reasons and more, so you can have the respect of your team, your colleagues, your boss—and less stress.
Whatever you’re facing, you can fix this.
You’re the star player. I’m your coach.
(That means you’ll get all the credit.)
Each of those six reasons above is fixable. You’re capable of fixing it, even if it doesn’t feel that way right now.
But look—I don’t know the details of your situation right now. You do. Let’s debug your specific situation together.
Matt is one of my go-to people when I need to talk through a tough problem—whether it’s a technical challenge, a team issue, or a leadership decision. He doesn’t just give answers; he asks the right questions that help you think more clearly and find the best way forward. He’s incredibly knowledgeable about processes, team structures, and long-term problem-solving, and his systems mindset ensures that solutions actually stick. If you’re looking for a coach who truly understands engineering teams and helps you make real, lasting improvements, Matt is the person to talk to.
– Aurooba Ahmed, Principal Software Engineer
Three Simple Steps
Start Debugging Together
In a thirty-minute introduction call, you and I will talk about what difficulties you’re facing, and what changes you want to see.
Get a Tailored Solution
I’ll send you my diagnosis and a tailored solution for moving from here to where you want to be.
Make it Happen
You’ll work the plan, taking your team from here to a better “there”. You’ll be more confident and less stressed.
You’re responsible for delivering results.
You’ve got a good idea of what a great engineering team could look like.
I’ll help you build one. Let’s build a team that delivers.
I had an opportunity to work closely with Matt at Home Instead as he coached a team focused on delivering enhancements to a product my department utilized. Prior to Matt’s leadership, we experienced challenges with timely delivery and misalignment of outcomes. Under his influence the team was dedicated to asking quality questions to effectively understand our use case, delivering on time outcomes which saved me and my team time and decreased our frustration level. Matt is a skilled communicator who is able to reach into operations and create authentic relationships that ensure delivery of agreed upon outcomes. He’s incredibly knowledgeable about processes, team structures, and long-term problem-solving, and his systems mindset ensures that solutions actually stick. If you’re looking for a coach who truly understands teams and helps you make real, lasting improvements, Matt is the person to talk to.
– Susan Richardson, VP of Learning and Development
Standard Packages
Your role, your team, your needs, you—what you need doesn’t fit neatly into a box. These are my standard packages. If what you need doesn’t fit neatly into one of these, that’s okay! I can be flexible in custom-creating a coaching package to meet your needs.
Single Coaching Session – A single coaching session to talk about your questions, concerns, issues—whatever is on your mind. (Your career? Your team? Your projects? Absolutely!)
Private Leadership Coaching – You face unique challenges and have your own goals—whether it’s improving basic skills like giving feedback or running meetings, developing your team, or broader skills like team or organizational leadership.
Private coaching offers dedicated, one-on-one time to work through these challenges, grow your capabilities, and invest in your career.
(Also available for individual contributors.)
Investment starts at $3k for 8 weeks with weekly sessions.
Onboarding Optimization – Think about the last time you onboarded a new employee. Was it clunkier than you wanted?
Imagine what it’d be like to be prepared to onboard the new hire, to get them up to speed quickly, and not miss critical steps.
What if your onboarding was fast, effective, easy to follow, and set up every new hire for success?
Investment starts at $5k with a 4-week timeline.
Team Workshops and Coaching – There are times even the best manager needs an outside voice to help a team move to the next level. I will work with you and your team to make a plan for improvement and to carry out that plan.
One-day team workshops are available starting at $5k. Multi-day workshops and ongoing team coaching retainers are also available.
Not looking for coaching right now? You’re still welcome to join my mailing list and get useful insights into team health, management, and building useful systems.
Don’t want to schedule a call? Try the self-paced Better Employee Onboarding Fast course.
Matt was an incredible asset to the organization, operating across departments, roles, and responsibilities with ease, and helping everyone around him to be successful.
As a technical coach, I’ve watched him over and over again level up the engineers he’s worked with, while simultaneously improving the delivery and quality metrics of the team. In our time working together, Matt was in extremely high demand–both as technical project lead, as well as a mentor–folks loved working with him.
At the same time, Matt is also an excellent and experienced manager. He is as comfortable and effective onboarding a new hire as he is conversing with the C-Suite, and is an excellent communicator and strategic planner. I have seen Matt build consensus for important initiatives across all levels of a global company, and accomplish things that many in the org would have considered impossible.
– Director of Product Engineering
All coaching can be done remotely. If you’re in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area, on-site is generally available. If you’re not in the Cedar Rapids area, we still might be able to work something out.
Book a free call, and let’s chat about how we can improve your team’s performance and help you lead with confidence.