5 WAYS TO WORK WITH ME
Whether you’re navigating a new role, trying to get out of your own way, or building the leadership range to stay relevant at the next level, here’s how we can work together.
Executive Transition Program
For Directors and VPs who are newly promoted, have expanded scope, or are 6 to 18 months into a role and realizing the old playbook has stopped working. This is not a first-90-days toolkit. It’s the deeper work of shifting how you lead, not just what you do.
Executive Presence and Influence Program
For Directors and VPs who keep doing the work, hitting their goals, and still getting passed over for the conversations that count. Strategic presence isn’t something you either have or don’t. It’s something you build.
Enneagram Assessment and Debrief
A focused, standalone session for leaders who want to understand themselves better. Not a personality quiz. A practical tool that surfaces the patterns driving your behaviour under pressure, the blind spots you keep running into, and the communication defaults that are helping or hurting you.
How to Give and Receive Feedback Group Workshop
Most leaders know they should give direct feedback. They don’t do it because they’ve never practiced it in a structured setting. This group workshop closes that gap.
Enneagram For Teams Group Workshop
When a team has a shared language for how people communicate, handle pressure, and show up under stress, it reduces friction fast. This workshop gives teams that language in a one session.
– Individual Enneagram assessment completed before the session
Who is Ling Abson?
I help Directors and VPs in tech become the kind of leader who can succeed at higher scope, influence senior stakeholders, and do it sustainably.
I started my career as a software engineer and spent two decades in tech before becoming a coach. My last role was an Executive Coach at Shopify. Before that, I was Director of Engineering at Fullscript, where I led an engineering organization of 60+ people.
I know what it feels like to be handed a bigger role with higher expectations and almost no roadmap for how to show up differently.
That experience is what I bring to every coaching engagement.
I’ve worked with 600+ leaders across engineering, product, UX, data, and operations at companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Wealthsimple, and Shopify.
I hold an ICF PCC designation and am an accredited Enneagram practitioner through iEQ9.
