Key Benefits

  • Experienced Tech Leader Coaches

    Navigate people challenges through expert coaching from experienced tech leaders

  • Build Your Network

    Build relationships with peers outside/across your org -- it's great for new ideas and your career

  • Recharge Your Battery

    Being a manager can be lonely. Get help, support, and accountability in a peer community

Become a confident tech manager

with support from a coach and peer community

Tech Manager Bootcamp is an online facilitated cohort program designed specifically for software engineering managers who want to excel in their leadership roles. If you're a strong technologist, but sometimes struggle with the 'soft skills' required to be a strong leader, this course is for you. Gain the actionable tools and frameworks you need to navigate the hard stuff and become a confident tech manager.


Workshops, Coaching, Accountability

Learn new tools and apply them for real growth

  • Workshops

    Two live interactive 90-min workshops to learn new tools and frameworks.

  • Homework

    Simple homework assignments to apply your learning from the workshop.

  • Group Coaching

    Get new ideas, accountability, and support in your coaching group. Each group is facilitated by a tech advisor.

Cohorts

Choose the cohort that best fits your schedule and needs

Tech Advisors

Your coaches in the program

Tech Advisor Greg Hecht

Greg is an engineering leader with 25 years of experience bootstrapping and leading teams. He has worked at startups and large multinational companies including Google (2006-2015), TiVo, and SGI. He was also co-founder and CTO of Threadloom, a venture-backed startup in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by VerticalScope in 2021. His thoughtful leadership is informed by his work across a wide range of technologies, among them cloud infrastructure, search, analytics and growth, video-streaming, consumer electronics, and real-time communications. Greg is passionate about building collaborative, high-functioning engineering teams. He works with existing leaders seeking to scale themselves and their teams, and with new managers adapting to the changes in their role. Greg holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He and his wife are avid travelers and he’s always game to sample a new bourbon or scotch. He is based in the Bay Area, CA.

Tech Advisor Heather Morelli

With over 20 years of software engineering leadership experience, most recently as VP, Applications and Tools at Pantheon Platform, Heather Morelli finds joy in working alongside engineering leaders and individual contributors alike. She got her start managing engineers focused on quality and automation at Expedia for over 13 years. Recognizing the need for a career break she left Expedia in 2013 embarking on a sabbatical that eventually led her to a half Ironman and then a role at Tableau in early 2014 until the end of 2021. From the tail end of their hypergrowth through acquisition by Salesforce, Heather managed the Sustaining Engineering groups within the Enterprise Applications org. Whether leading R&D teams or Ops groups, a small team of 2 or a large org managing managers, Heather has managed through changing technologies, org restructures, many types of performance management philosophies and numerous career growth stories. Understanding that the people are what makes a great product, you won’t find a stronger believer in focusing on the person rather than the employee.

Tech Advisor Mark Klenk

Mark is a former Google Engineering Manager (2005-2019) with 20+ years of experience in the Tech Industry hiring, managing, and coaching software engineers and engineering managers in addition to individuals in adjacent disciplines such as product and program managers. At Google, he regularly facilitated leadership and management training courses. As a Regroup Tech Mentor, Mark helps engineering managers navigate the challenges of transition — from individual contributor to manager and from manager to manager-of-managers. During each transition, Mark’s mentorship and support helps managers develop new leadership skills like: shifting to new ways of operating, managing change and uncertainty, delegating and empowering your team, developing team cohesion and culture; and communication and listening. Mark earned his B.S. in Computer Science at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). With two adult children, he and his wife split their time between Boulder, Colorado and northern Washington. He enjoys coached swim workouts and singing in a Boulder-based a cappella group.

Facilitators

Your workshop facilitators and guides

Senior Facilitator Trista Taylor

Trista is the founder/CEO of Regroup, and also a highly-skilled organizational consultant and group facilitator. Her clients appreciate her ability to bring clarity to a complex organizational issue and her no-nonsense, but compassionate approach to helping a team or organization get unstuck. Her facilitation style is engaging and dynamic, focused on what’s needed in the room (whether virtual or in-person). Before founding Regroup, Trista played a number of roles building organizational effectiveness at Google. She is most well-known for building and leading the global Team Development platform of scalable resources and services to enable all teams to get help on demand. This work scaled and operationalized the principles laid out in Google’s Team Effectiveness research, Project Aristotle. Trista has a MS degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and is a certified coach through the Hudson Institute. She lives in Seattle with her loving partner, two amazing daughters, and six chickens.

Senior Facilitator Elisabeth Bertram

Elisabeth is a senior consultant and facilitator with Regroup. With an unwavering commitment to driving impactful change, her infectious enthusiasm and unwavering dedication make her an inspiring catalyst for growth and success. Elisabeth is a catalyst for building awareness within leaders, teams, and organizational systems. As a coach, consultant, and facilitator her clients appreciate her observant and empathic ability to address perspectives and challenges that have previously left them stuck. Her facilitation style is collaborative, participant centered and outcome-focused, bringing what needs resolution into focus to drive momentum. Before joining Regroup, Elisabeth played a number of progressive roles building leaders, teams and systems across non-profit, healthcare, technology and wholesale industries. Elisabeth has an BA in Education, MA in Counseling Psychology, and MS in Organization Development from Pepperdine University. She is a trained coach through the Co-Active Training Institute and has over 350+ certified coaching hours. She lives in Seattle with her thought provoking husband and temperamental cat and is an outdoor enthusiast.