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✦ The People Leadership Newsletter for Technical Minds
Where analytical minds
learn to lead people.
Nobody teaches you how to lead people. Not your technical degree, not your years as an IC, not your first months as a manager. Code to People fills that gap — practical frameworks for your first years in management, from someone still in the room.
Every Issue
Built for how you think.
Each edition goes deep on one people leadership skill nobody taught you — written for analytical minds navigating their first years in management.
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Leadership Frameworks
Proven mental models adapted for analytical minds — not generic management thinking recycled from a business school textbook.
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Communication Tactics
How to translate technical depth into executive presence, clear decisions, and stakeholder alignment.
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Real-World Scenarios
Case studies and examples pulled from actual leadership challenges managing teams across different industries — because the hard parts of managing people are universal.
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Actionable Takeaways
Every issue ends with one clear thing you can apply this week — no fluff, no theory without practice.
Who's behind this
Written by a manager still actively in the room.
I'm Andrea — a Group Manager leading a technical team at one of the world's largest tech platforms. I started as a senior analyst at a top investment bank, made the jump to people manager overnight, and spent years building the system I wish someone had handed me on day one.
Seven years in, I'm still managing. Not retrospectively, not in theory. The Code to People system is what I actually run — built from real teams, real mistakes, and a lot of pattern recognition across Finance, Media, and Tech.
Experience
7+ years leading teams
Industries
Finance · Media · Tech
Education
MS Data Analytics · BBA
Journey
Senior IC → Group Manager
Free Self-Assessment
Where are you in the transition?
Most analytical minds who move into management don't realize which IC habits are still running the show — until the friction becomes undeniable. This 5-minute assessment shows you exactly where you stand across the three patterns that matter most.
01 — Execution Patterns
When a task is taking longer than expected or isn't going the way you'd do it, your first instinct is to take it back and do it yourself.
01 — Execution Patterns
You still review your team's work in detail — not just for quality, but because it's hard to send something you didn't touch yourself.
01 — Execution Patterns
At the end of a busy week, your sense of accomplishment is tied more to what you personally produced than what your team moved forward.
02 — Communication Patterns
Your 1:1s tend to run through project status and blockers rather than your team member's growth, development, or how they're actually doing.
02 — Communication Patterns
You hold back direct feedback because you don't want to damage the relationship — or you soften it so much that the other person doesn't realize it was feedback.
02 — Communication Patterns
When you talk to stakeholders or leadership about your team's work, you focus on the technical details more than the business impact or strategic value.
03 — Ownership Patterns
When something goes wrong on your team, your instinct is to step in and fix the problem rather than coaching the person through solving it themselves.
03 — Ownership Patterns
You feel uncomfortable or anxious when your team makes significant decisions without looping you in first — even when the decision was theirs to make.
03 — Ownership Patterns
Your team comes to you for answers. When they face a problem, they ask you what to do — rather than coming with a proposed solution they want your input on.
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The newsletter gives you weekly insights. The playbook gives you the complete foundation — a structured 90-day operating system for making the IC-to-manager transition with confidence.
✓ The IC-to-Manager identity shift
✓ Team mapping framework
✓ 80/20 Time Audit + Stop Doing List
✓ Trust-building foundations
✓ Week-by-week 90-day plan
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Playbook 1
IC to Manager Transition
Your First 90 Days
01 The Core Shift
02 Know Your Team
03 Build Trust
04 Your 90-Day Plan