Jim Lane Coaching

Tell me if this sounds familiar:

• Your team is talented, but they’re stuck in the "fog."
• You’re working 60 hours a week, exhausted, yet delivery speed is stalling and you wonder if you're a bottleneck.
• You know you need to let go and better leverage both your team and new technology like AI, but you’re afraid of sacrificing quality and velocity. 
• The stakes are too high to just walk away, but you're coping with an increasingly chaotic and unpredictable business environment.

I’ve been there. For 25 years, I led teams at CNN, Oracle, and high-growth startups. Eventually I realized being a "doer" and "fixer" had become a bottleneck to my own professional growth, as well as my team's velocity and business outcomes. Instead, I had to embrace being the more future-focused leader that the business actually needed.   

In 2026, I retired from design management to focus exclusively on coaching tech leaders transitioning into senior/executive roles, and startup founders scaling from "small and scrappy" to scalable growth.

Using an approach I've been developing called the "Leveraged Leader" framework, my goal is to help you pivot from doing to leading, ensure your team is moving toward the same North Star, and reclaim more of your own time for high-impact strategic work. 

Ready to leverage your own leadership potential and work smarter instead of harder?