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AI can write code, but only you can connect with your team and your career
AI can write code, but only you can connect with your team and your career
Growing fast or facing friction? Stand out and advance your R&D career by helping your stakeholders clearly understand the value of your work. Increase your influence by finding your voice and building trust across teams. Reach deeper satisfaction by connecting with, and helping others connect with, the “why” behind what you build.
Human-centered communication and collaboration are core to advancing in any career. In an age when AI can generate code, content, and analysis—and organizations are pushing teams to do more with less—this has never been more true.
Engineering Is Human brings a human-centered leadership approach to help people across engineering, product, design, and data grow their influence, navigate complexity, and move forward with greater confidence at every stage of their career.
Meet Jordana
Meet Jordana
Your partner in growth
Your partner in growth
Jordana Heller, PhD, is an engineering leader, cognitive scientist, and communication expert, with 20 years in machine learning, AI, and communication research.
As the founder of Engineering Is Human, Jordana helps leaders and teams across product, engineering, design, and data grow their influence, effectiveness, and satisfaction at work.
Read more about Jordana here.
Ways to Connect
Ways to Connect
1:1 coaching is the fastest, most personalized way to remove friction and jumpstart your career.
Coaching is never one-size-fits-all. Together we'll create a personalized 1:1 coaching package—part traditional coaching, part human-centered leadership consulting—to meet you where you are in your leadership journey and help you build toward your next career stage, measurably.
Start with a free consultation.
Grow your human-centered R&D leadership practice through structured group learning, no matter your career stage—and connect with the support of others at similar stages, as well.
Testimonials
Testimonials
"Jordana is an incredible mentor and coach. In my leadership career, she has taught me strategies to hold a high bar for outcomes while building a collaborative, healthy team dynamic. As a thought partner and coach, I can rely on her to help clarify my thinking, strategize with intention, and lead through change. Jordana is a highly skilled coach who creates space for others to grow, and she has helped my growth in countless ways as an engineering leader."
Jennifer Sikos, Director of Engineering (AI/ML)
Jennifer Sikos, Director of Engineering (AI/ML)
"Jordana is a human-first engineering leader who brings clarity to complex decisions. She regularly asked thoughtful, challenging questions that pushed me to connect our technical strategy to a broader vision. This widened my thinking and shaped how I lead. On a pivotal project, Jordana’s coaching helped me drive consensus around complex technical tradeoffs by clearly communicating their impact. I’m grateful for the clarity and confidence her coaching helped me develop."
Dawn Wright, Senior Engineering Manager
Dawn Wright, Senior Engineering Manager
"Jordana mentored me through my transition into senior ML engineering. She asked leading questions that helped me frame problems and projects such that the core business value was the leading motivator. When I shared my work and ideas, she prompted me to consider outcomes and their implications until my arguments were airtight. Crucially, her questions went beyond technical details and deep into business impact. In leading with these questions, Jordana coached me to ask myself the same things reflexively. I gained ground as an engineer substantially once that became an independent habit. In helping stakeholders (technical and non-technical alike) understand the proposed business value of my work, I opened opportunities for them to engage and ask questions, establishing my credibility as a collaborator.
"It takes practice to learn how to translate metrics-driven evaluations into productive business discussions, especially with non-technical leadership. Bridging the gap between technical solutions and their actual impact is the skill that consistently brings me opportunities to lead high-value projects and progress in my career. Jordana was an incredible mentor when I was ready to learn that skill."
Daniela González, Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Daniela González, Senior Machine Learning Scientist
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