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Leading a team for the first time? Talk to someone who has led one.

Your first session is free

Nobody teaches the hard parts of leadership and management: the first conversation with someone who is not delivering, delegating work you could do better yourself, being fair and clear at the same time. If you are about to lead a team for the first time, or weighing a director role or a real salary jump, the useful 30 minutes are with someone who has been through exactly that quarter.

This page is short, and that is on purpose. The path behind it is more than ten years in HR and leadership, carried full-time alongside a family. We only show people who have taken the first step into leading a team themselves, and that keeps the page small. You talk 30 minutes one to one by video, and your first session is free.

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By field

The people who made these moves

Rami Hajji

  • Egypt and TunisiatoGermany
  • Sales and leadershiptoFounding Nawaya

Left at 19 with a degree nobody here knew and a language I did not speak. Sixteen years later Germany is home, and I am building Nawaya.

Speaks English, German, Arabic, FrenchGermany

Career changeStay or leaveSales
then $88 per session (30 min)

● Available now

Isabell Hajji

Over ten years in HR and leadership, full-time, alongside raising a child.

Sessions in GermanGermany

First teamHR & people
then $88 per session (30 min)

● Available now

Amine Zgarni

Medical director in Munich.

Speaks English, German, ArabicGermany

First teamMoving abroadHealthcare & medicine
then $90 per session (30 min)

● Available now

Warren Nugent

From UX to Product

Speaks EnglishUnited Arab Emirates

Career changeStay or leaveProduct managementDesign & UXMedia & creative
then $75 per session (30 min)

● Available now

Frequently asked questions

Why not just ask ChatGPT or a coach?

ChatGPT can list the frameworks, but it has never sat across from a team member who is not delivering. A coach brings a method over weeks, and most coaches have not run the team you are about to run. A guide has led people, tells you what nobody told them beforehand, and asks about your situation, not a generic one.

I just became a manager; where do I start?

With the fundamentals nobody glamorizes: one-on-ones that actually surface problems, feedback people can hear, and delegation that develops your team instead of drowning you. A guide who made the same step can tell you which of those habits paid off and which they wish they had built earlier.

Can I discuss confidential team situations?

Yes: that is the point of an outside guide. Unlike colleagues or HR, a guide has no stake in your org chart, which makes the conversation more honest, not less.

Not sure which Guide fits? Start with the full directory. Your first session is free.