Vetted Coaching Professionals

“Operations-focused executive and management consultant who has led operational buildouts across sectors: first CEO at a founder-led company, COO of a large nonprofit food bank, and co-founder of a 501(c)(3) that has run for over a decade serving thousands of at-risk children. Brings a structured, metrics-informed approach (process mapping, financial alignment, benchmarking, SWOT) and coaches leaders to connect vision and strategy to scalable operational execution.”

“Aspiring AI product builder interested in LLMs and deep learning, exploring forming a team (including fresh graduates) and leveraging crowdsourcing to develop ideas. Has not raised capital and has no VC/accelerator experience yet, but is thinking ahead about funding needs and partnering with an operational co-founder while potentially joining an existing team.”

“People leader with large-team management experience (15 direct reports) and recruiting leadership responsibilities (4 indirect) spanning onboarding, coaching, performance management, and KPI delivery. As a Sr Recruiter, stepped in as a change facilitator to turn around adoption of a new scheduling system, boosting engagement by 50%+ through retrospectives and working sessions. Also partnered with senior leadership at McKinsey on AI product adoption communications to drive alignment across functions.”

“Technical recruiter with AWS experience who has led inclusive sourcing initiatives and run executive searches (including Director-level Solutions Architect leadership roles). Known for data-driven influence with executive stakeholders (e.g., CFO during a hiring-freeze review) and for implementing a standardized intake/calibration process that improved speed and slate quality; has also trained recruiting coordinators and managed a 7-person customer service team.”

“Engineering leader in cloud security at SysTech with player-coach experience spanning cross-team data/ownership standardization and reporting platform user-journey improvements. Stays technically deep through observability (SLA/SLOs, dashboards, alerting), rigorous code reviews (including AI-assisted coding), and end-to-end incident ownership in IAM/agentless cloud event collection. Targeting $270K–$300K base plus bonus/equity.”

“Operations and talent strategy leader who has supported two early-stage tech startups by optimizing org structure and building scalable recruiting operations. Implements KPI-driven hiring systems, employer branding/attraction strategies, and DEI/SMART/SWOT frameworks, and has a concrete example of reducing declined offers by shifting compensation discussions earlier and training hiring managers. Experienced mentoring founders/executives through mission-aligned, flexible development plans and structured communication processes.”

“Former Walmart Director of Software Engineering who left in March 2025 to build products for clients. Recently delivered an LLM/RAG-based UNSPSC classification solution for an MRO client using a multi-stage retrieval + web search + prompt-engineering workflow, and has led large-scale retail forecasting initiatives and high-severity cloud-migration incidents end-to-end.”

“Engineering Manager/Tech Lead on Grindr’s monetization team who helped ship an AI-powered conversation summary feature (A-list), contributing across Android freemium implementation and backend LLM workflow service architecture/reviews. Demonstrated strong operational ownership by leading a Boost production incident from detection through rollback and prevention, and improved team throughput by introducing a lightweight end-to-end delivery process in a high-growth environment.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with ~5 years managing 6–12 recruiters, known for building scalable workflows and analytics. At Amazon, launched an on-demand recruiting approach that cut time-to-fill from 60–90+ days to ~20–25 days and redesigned internal mobility post-layoffs, reducing open roles by 40% in a quarter. Also a Beamery SME who drove org-leading adoption through recruiter training and process standardization.”

“Aerospace propulsion engineer at Pratt & Whitney who tackled legacy infrastructure bottlenecks by leading a grassroots effort to codify discipline standard work into modular Python packages and stand up a Git/Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for production-grade deployment across programs. Deep experience with C-based gas turbine aero-thermo and control-system simulation/verification (including Simulink-based control development), now motivated to pivot into fast-moving robotics/AI environments.”