Product Coaching
I work with individuals and teams to help them achieve their goals and sharpen their skills, particularly product practitioners and founders. Some of the outcomes of my coaching:
Identifying key product skills gaps, and actions on how to close them
Working through and overcoming product challenges
Improving confidence as a product leader
Navigating career progression, including transitioning into a leadership role
Designing a career plan, including actions on how to get there
If you’d like to learn more, you can drop me a line here.
Some nice things people are saying…
“Hilary’s pragmatic approach to product management and genuine interest in the issues I was facing meant that I was able to benefit from her coaching skills from our very first session together. With her help, I was able to look at every problem from a distance and had some breakthrough realisations, which wouldn’t have happened if not for Hilary’s support. Her skill to listen out for the key information, ask the right questions at the right moment while also leaving the space to explore the answers for myself, meant that I grew more confident in my skills as a Product Manager and a department leader.”
— Karolina Mrowka, Senior Product Manager, Peakon 🇩🇰
“I felt that I was able to have an open discussion with Hilary. She listens and is willing to share her own experience. She also proactively thinks and watches out for the areas I have mentioned before and then follows up with relevant materials and resources. The coaching helped me validate my thoughts and decisions.”
— Harry Tan, SVP, Marketing and Digital Product, ITV 🇬🇧
“My experience working with Hilary has been great. The sessions are relaxed and well structured. I immediately felt like I could talk at ease and Hilary managed to disentangle my chaotic thoughts into structured actions. I feel like I have the tools to improve some key product goals.”
— Elizabeth Evans, Head of Product, Feedr 🇬🇧
“Hilary is a great coach. She has loads of industry experience and has helped me find my own way of applying product management theory and principles in the real world. True to product management, she helped me define my desired outcome of the coaching sessions and I could tell how I was tracking towards it by the end of each conversation. Hilary is an empathetic listener–she listened to what I needed help with and structured the coaching to meet my needs. By the end of the last session, I had improved confidence in meeting my career goals.”
— Lyzbelle Strahan, Head of Product, MySense 🇬🇧
“Hilary has a deep knowledge of both product management and product operations. She’s able to take theoretical concepts and make them practical and applicable. Over the 3 months I worked with her, Hilary worked with me to tackle difficult product problems and tricky stakeholders head-on, helping me define an entirely new, product-centric way of working.”
- Emma Wells, Product Owner, Snapper Services 🇳🇿
My services
I offer:
Individual 1:1 product coaching
Team product coaching
I approach my coaching with structured sessions, tailored specifically to make progress towards your or your team’s goals.
I have completed The Co-Active Training Institute’s Coaching Fundamentals course, which has given me a foundation for my coaching.