Management Coach & Trainer for the Tech Industry | Lara Hogan

Many of us are feeling stuck. We’re managing through crisis after crisis, and we’re watching our leaders and our teammates burn out and not be their best selves. I don’t know anybody who’s thriving right now.
Day-to-day, you’re trying to make at least a tiny bit of difference. I see it! You’re working to help people get promoted, you’re running standups to make sure folks have what they need, you’re holding one-on-ones where you check in and see if your teammates...

I’ve been working with the rad team at Fly.io for the past few months as a fractional VPE, mainly focusing on management-y and culture stuff as the team grows.
One of the things I really dig about Fly.io’s company culture is how teammates use their internal forum for sharing questions about work, project progress updates, oncall recaps, and other stuff that I’ve traditionally seen live (and die) in email inboxes...

We face decisions every single day, big and small. Sometimes those decisions have tradeoffs that feel impossible to decide between, which naturally will feel particularly hard to settle on.
For example, let’s say you’ve been struggling to enjoy your current role at work, and you’re ready to make a decision about how to address that. You’re feeling some stress about the volume of work you need to get done every week, but you also recognize...

As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. It’s usually not even something we do consciously; we just see someone using a different...