Client Story - 04 - Valery Mezencev on leadership lessons from Senior PMM to Head of Product Marketing
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
Release Date: 06/03/2026
Client Story - 06 - Anna Bienias - From Passing Probation to Lasting Self-Trust
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
Anna Bienias - Client Story Location: London, UK Coaching: Monthly 1:1s over one year When Anna and I first started working together, she had been out of work for six months but had just successfully secured a new role. With a six-month probation period ahead of her, she described feeling anxious, uncertain, and stuck. She was processing the emotional impact of redundancy, navigating a highly competitive job market, and stepping into a new sector and role at a point of low confidence. Anna shares how our coaching sessions helped her navigate change...
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Guest Story - 05 - Rory Woodbridge on coaching in-role as a leader
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
In this episode, I’m joined by Rory Woodbridge who has been a Director and VP in Product Marketing multiple times over. We had an honest conversation about what it means to coach direct reports on the job while still delivering against stakeholder expectations and managing perception. Rory reflects on building teams that outlast you and coaching in-role with these three words: imposter, excitement, and pragmatism. Capturing the mix of doubt, energy, and responsibility that often comes with supporting others for the first time. In this conversation we explore how Rory has...
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Client Story - 04 - Valery Mezencev on leadership lessons from Senior PMM to Head of Product Marketing
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
When Valery and I worked together he described himself as curious and ambitious, yet unclear about his next career move. It was his first experience working with a career coach, and he wanted support navigating several significant transitions at once, including moving into a global corporate environment for the first time and seeking clarity on how to progress his career with greater intention. Over the course of our partnership, Valery transitioned from Product Marketing Manager to Head of Product Marketing at Cisco, working within...
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Guest Story - 03 - Mary Sheehan on ambition, motherhood, and redefining what’s possible
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
🎙️In this episode of Career Evolutions, I’m joined by Mary Sheehan, product marketing leader at Adobe and founder of the program Propel Yourself, supporting ambitious working mums in tech. This isn’t a conversation about “having it all”. It’s about what happens when: 👀 your career and motherhood collide 👀 your capacity changes, but your ambition doesn’t 👀 you’re trying to figure out what’s next, without losing yourself in the process Mary describes that moment in 3 words: exhausted, FOMO, and overwhelmed. And I can honestly say as a mother myself… I felt...
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Client Story – 02 – Claire Oswald on Moving from Stuck to Being A Team Lead
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
At the point when I first met Claire, she described her career in three words: frustrated, underappreciated, and stuck. She knew she was capable of more. But like many product marketers, she didn’t yet have the clarity, confidence, or support to take the next step in her career and explore new enviroments and more responsibility. Fast forward 12 months: Claire is now leading a team, aligned with her company’s mission, and describes her career today as fulfilled, aligned, and empowered. This isn’t a story about a quick job move. ...
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Guest Story – 01 – Emma Stratton on evolving beyond a strong personal brand
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
Emma Stratton owns and runs a consulting and training firm that helps fast-growing B2B tech companies win on positioning and messaging and wrote the book Make it Punchy, popular with PMMs. In this open, honest conversation, Emma shares the reality of evolving a successful brand while stepping into a new chapter of her career. She reflects on having felt longing, knowing, and frozen for 'what's next' despite outward success. Together we explore Emma’s journey toward launching The Emma Stratton Show and exploring mindset coaching as she moved from resistance and...
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Introducing Career Evolutions | Official Trailer
Career Evolutions with Hope Chauland
Official Trailer - Start here :) Introducing Career Evolutions | The work before visible success
info_outlineWhen Valery and I worked together he described himself as curious and ambitious, yet unclear about his next career move. It was his first experience working with a career coach, and he wanted support navigating several significant transitions at once, including moving into a global corporate environment for the first time and seeking clarity on how to progress his career with greater intention.
Over the course of our partnership, Valery transitioned from Product Marketing Manager to Head of Product Marketing at Cisco, working within the Slido organisation and stepped into people leadership for the first time. By the end of our work together, he described feeling confident, focused, and curious again, with a much stronger sense of direction and trust in his ability to operate as a PMM, a team lead and a better idea of future directions he could take his career in longer term.
This episode with my client covers:
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The mentality shift from being an individual contributor to a team lead
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Valery’s transition of startup life into a global corporate
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Getting comfortable with possibility of failure and not having all the answers, even as a leader
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How Valery moved from uncertainty to having confidence in his career decisions with the help of coaching
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