How do you help others navigate their own complexity for themselves?

I’m currently a Venture Partner with Bethnal Green Ventures. This means work closely with as many as 12 teams over a 12 week accelerator guiding them on product-related challenges.

Through coaching sessions, I combine active listening with powerful questions to help founders and their teams identify opportunities to improve their product offering. In doing this, I also help those individuals to grow within themselves.

As well as 1-2-1 coaching sessions, I give talks as part of the programme on product discovery practices. Most recently these have included ‘prototyping mindset’,  ‘testing assumptions not ideas’ and 'prototyping to de-risk your product'. I find this work incredibly fulfilling; it’s a nice tonic to my recent day-to-day client work.

Some teams I have recently advised that have gone on to success: