Leadership coaching for Effective Altruists
I help EA managers and founders build their leadership and people-management skills, so their teams reach peak performance and their organizations do the most good.
My clients work in
- AI safety
- Farmed animal welfare
- EA community building
- Effective giving
- Biosecurity
Track record
Leading engineering teams at Amazon and Bloomberg
Coaching sessions given since 2022, mostly to EAs
Engineers and managers coached, roughly, during my career as a manager
Scaled an organization using these hiring and coaching practices
Coaching
How I work
I have been coaching EAs in management and leadership since September 2022.
Who I work with
Current and aspiring managers and leaders working in the effective altruism space.
What we work on
Building high-performing teams, delegation, roles and responsibilities, career growth, performance management, hiring, and difficult HR situations. My deepest specialization is giving and receiving feedback.
How I coach
I ask questions, listen, and build experiments with you from your own self-knowledge. I bring in practices from many sources and adapt them to your situation. Most of the growth happens in the work between sessions, so we set action items and I hold you to them.
Time commitment
A 90-minute session every two weeks, with 1–2 hours of work in between. Lasting behavior change usually takes three months or more. You should get something usable out of the first session.
- Pricing $165 for 60 minutes and $247.50 for 90 minutes — the discounted EA rate, for EAs without a professional development budget. If you have a budget, reach out and we will agree a discounted rate against it. The industry rate is $275 for 60 minutes and $412.50 for 90 minutes.
What my clients say
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Leadership coaching
“He helped me see that a lot of what was blocking me wasn’t about finding the right tool. It was emotional. Tackling both at the same time gives me the highest chance of making things actually work.”
Karolina Sarek
Chair, Animal Welfare Fund (EA Funds)
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“Thanks to his advice, we’ve made strong hiring decisions, and our team dynamics have improved—people are giving each other (and me) more feedback, which is strengthening our organization in ways that will last.”
Sofia Balderson
Co-founder & Executive Director, Hive
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“He gave me concrete, practical tips that I think definitively made the difference and allowed me to be selected for my current job although it was highly competitive.”
Dr. Ysaline Bourigine de Meder
Head of Strategy, EA Sweden
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“He is an attentive listener and gives me guidance that respects my specific context and personality.”
Marie Firgau
Executive Director, High Impact Medicine
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“He helped me develop systems that made it easier to track progress on priorities and keep everyone on the same page, while also teaching me best practices in giving and receiving feedback within the team.”
Ella Wong
Head of Projects and Operations, The Good Growth Co.
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“Being coached by Adam helped me become more confident and candid as a leader. This increased my agency in bringing up difficult topics and directly solving issues as they arise.”
Simon Haberfellner
Former Head of Operations and Product, inoqo
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RAISEimpact
I founded RAISEimpact, a leadership consulting program for AI safety organizations funded by Coefficient Giving. It runs as a program of Successif.
About
Hi, I’m Adam.
I spent 11+ years leading high-performing tech teams at Amazon and Bloomberg. The best moments of that career were the ones where I helped my people reach their goals: getting promoted, becoming managers, moving into new roles, delivering work that mattered to them.
In December 2019 I left software development to travel and look for work aligned with my values. What I have comes from talent and hard work, and also from luck and privilege. I decided to spend the rest of my career doing the most good I can, which is what drew me to Effective Altruism.
After career coaching with 80,000 Hours, I became a leadership coach to EAs. I have been coaching since September 2022.
Contact
Start with a free 30-minute call
We talk through where you are and where you want to lead from. If it looks like we can work together, I usually follow it with a free 90-minute session.