Gourdanen · Simone Dive · Vancouver

Career coaching from someone who has sat on both sides of the table

A career ready for its next move, with no map and no mentor. I know that spot, because I have been in it. My own path had no handouts and no straight line, and it still ran from HR to VP Product to co-founding an AI company.

I have spent nearly twenty years hiring, developing and promoting people, building teams from scratch and writing the competency frameworks they grew against. When I review your resume or prep you for an interview, you are getting the person who used to make the call.

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Who this is for

Ways we can work together

Career strategy

We build your career path the way I build strategy for a business. Now, future, barriers, choices. Clear steps, measured and refined along the way.

Resume and LinkedIn refinement

Reviewed and rewritten by someone who has screened thousands. What to lead with, what to cut, and how to sound like you at your best.

Interview prep

Real questions for your target roles, case study practice, and honest feedback from the interviewer's side of the table.

Skill development

Product craft, business judgment and AI capability, developed with the same competency frameworks I use with teams.

How it runs

We start by taking honest stock of where you are, then dig into what you actually want, which is often different from what you first say. From there the plan is built around you, your constraints and your ambition, not a template.

I have been training and developing people since before I was in tech, and it is still my favourite part. People grow when they feel safe and see possibility. My job is both.

Fair questions

Who do you coach?

Anyone who wants to build or learn: AI, business, product, career. You do not need to be in tech. Many of my favourite clients are making a leap between fields.

How many sessions does it take?

A resume and LinkedIn refresh can be one or two sessions. A career strategy with interview prep is typically a short series. We agree the shape upfront after a free intro call.

What does it cost?

I share session options and pricing on the intro call, once I understand what you actually need. The intro call is free, and the free workbooks on this site are yours either way.

Do we meet in person or remotely?

Both. I am in Vancouver, Canada, so if you are in the city we can meet face to face. Everything also runs remotely, and I coach people across time zones.

Featured free seed packets

Three worth starting with on this path. Take them whether we ever work together or not. See all of them.

Career

The Life Map

Everything on one page. Your vision and purpose, your values, your strengths and watch-outs, what you want to feel, your goals, what is ahead in one, three and five years, and what you are actually doing this quarter. Built to print and put on the wall.

Use it as the thing all the other tools build toward. It fills itself in from what you have already done.

Build my Life Map
Product & Strategy

Product management competency framework

Fourteen competencies scored on the same five-rung ladder, from customer and market through data, business acumen, technical aptitude, design partnership, agile delivery, leadership and developing others. Then it holds your scores against the real profile of eight roles, junior PM through Director.

Use it to see the gap between where you are and the role you want, and to walk into your next development conversation with something specific to talk about. Have your manager score you too and compare.

Start the check-in
Career

Goals and measures

A goal without a measure is a mood. Set what you are going for across three timeframes, how you will know it happened, and by when. Works for a career, a team or a life.

Use it when you have goals written down that nobody could tell you had been hit.

Open the tool

Tell me what you want to grow.

It starts with a conversation, not a contract. No pitch, no deck about decks.

Plant something with me