DRI Your Career

A 6-week course to take ownership of your career with clarity, confidence, and intention

You’re experienced, capable, and have built a solid career. But lately, when someone asks where you’re headed next, you don’t have a good answer.

It’s a strange time to think about career development — tech layoffs, daily horrific news headlines, uncertainty everywhere. The impulse is to stay put, keep your head down, and be grateful. But under that is a quieter question: What do I actually want?

This course creates space to explore that question. Whether you want to double down on your current role, take a step back, or move in a completely new direction, DRI Your Career helps you get clear on your values, your goals, and how to make work work for you.

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This course is for you if…

You’re mid to senior level in tech (IC or manager) and have always been the “team player,” doing what’s needed. But now you’re wondering—what do I want?
You want to feel more intentional about your career path, instead of waiting for your manager to drive the conversation.
You’re trying to make work work for you—not the other way around.
The traditional career ladder doesn’t motivate you, and you want something more aligned with your values.
You feel stuck between “shoulds” and wants, and are ready to explore what’s truly yours.

What you’ll walk away with

A clearer sense of what you want from your career—and how to go after it
A mindset shift: from “following the path” to being the DRI (directly responsible individual) of your own growth
Practical tools: journaling prompts, reflection exercises, strategy frameworks
A map of your support network and how to ask for what you need
Confidence to navigate transitions, whether that’s doubling down on your current role or heading in a totally new direction

How it works

🗓 6-week course
🧠 Live sessions every other week (1.5 hours) - (TODO: add dates and times)
🎧 Async audio content you can listen to anytime
📓 Journaling + reflection prompts to help you go deeper
📬 Homework to move from insight to action
👥 Small group format (capped at ~25–30 people)

We designed this course to be a mix of introspection, structure, and support — with just the right amount of accountability. You’ll spend ~1.5 hours every other week in live sessions, plus 30–60 minutes per week on your own. You’ll also meet others who are figuring it out, just like you.

Modules

Module 1: DRI Your Career

Shape your career, or capitalism will. Uncover the “shoulds” you’ve internalized, and get clear on what you actually want.

Module 2: Setting Goals

Explore your wants. Make something happen. Learn how to choose a direction and take aligned action, even if your dreams don’t fit neatly in a career ladder.

Module 3: Accelerating Growth

Feedback is not what you think it is. Learn how to turn information into insight, and build a better relationship with growth and learning.

Module 4: Wrap-Up

Clarity is a gift. Pull together what you’ve learned, create a lightweight strategy, and walk away with tools to guide your next steps.

Meet your facilitators

DRI Your Career is led by Cate Huston and Jean Hsu, engineering leaders with deep experience coaching people through career transitions and inflection points.



Cate is an Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo, advisor at Glowforge, and author of The Engineering Leader. She’s led engineering teams at Automattic and Google, and her writing has been featured extensively all over. She’s lived and worked across five continents and speaks regularly on leadership and mobile development.	Jean started her career at Google and spent 15+ years at early-stage startups like Pulse and Medium, later serving as VP of Engineering at Range and Productable. She now writes, coaches, and helps people figure out how work fits into the rest of their lives. She lives in Berkeley with her partner and three kids.
More about Cate at cate.blog.	More about Jean at jeanhsu.com.

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