Office Hours

I’m offering open weekly “Office Hours”, for anyone who thinks talking to me could help them.

These will be sessions of 30 minutes up to an hour over Google Meet, where I’ll try to answer your questions and/or offer coaching, feedback, or whatever else might be of assistance.

Why am I doing this?

Shameless self interest: I really enjoy helping people.

I’m taking a break between jobs right now and it’s great, but I’ve got a bit of time while our 2yo is at nursery and I wanted to use it to help other folks.

I’ve also just benefitted a lot from talking with other people over the years and want to pay it forwards!

What sort of things?

Try me? I’m a lapsed software engineer who has spent the last decade growing and running internationally-distributed tech organisations, so I have opinions on feedback, career growth, hiring processes, architecture, etc - and some of that will probably still be useful even if you’re not in tech.

But I’ve also helped run conferences, trusteed a charity, done security research and hardware hacking, managed GDPR and PCI compliance and audits and more. I don’t necessarily know how I can help but I’m certainly willing to try!

How to sign up?

Drop me an email at officehours@d*is****b******.co.uk with a few sentences on what you’d like to talk about, and if I think I can be of assistance then we’ll get something scheduled.

If you’re currently unemployed and actively job hunting and think I can help with CV/interview feedback or similar then I especially encourage you to get in touch and will prioritise you - I’m conscious that there’s a bunch of folks who’ve been on the receiving end of layoffs etc. recently and are looking for their next thing ASAP

Thanks

Thanks to Robert Heaton for the prompt and a bunch of wording and framing inspiration.