For someone stepping into an Engineering Manager, tech lead, or manager-of-managers role and needing a fast, practical way to lead with purpose instead of guessing.
This is for the moment a strong engineer becomes responsible for trust, motivation, alignment, stakeholder pressure, and people who do not all think the same way.
Five focused 60-minute sessions. We start with the immediate leadership problem, then build the purpose, manifesto, and action plan that make the role feel less abstract.
Define how we will work together, understand the problem in front of you, and set goals that guide the rest of the package.
Dig into what you really want to achieve, what success should make possible, and what kind of leadership role you actually want to build.
Turn your purpose into a clear leadership stance: how you influence, what you protect, how you make decisions, and what your team can expect from you.
Outline the concrete behaviours, conversations, stakeholder moves, and delivery signals that will move you toward the goals from session one.
Review what happened once the plan met reality, adjust the purpose or manifesto where needed, and decide what needs to happen next.
A contained first coaching package: enough depth to create movement, small enough to approve quickly.
Phil Bennett works with engineering leaders facing trust problems, misaligned expectations, missing motivation, and the awkward human systems that appear when technical leadership becomes people leadership.
Punk Leadership is practical engineering leadership coaching for people who need to lead real teams, make real tradeoffs, and stop hiding behind process language.
Send a short note with the role context, the main leadership problem, and the rough timing for the first session.
New Leads Coaching Package by Punk Leadership. All EUR prices exclude VAT. Last updated May 2026.