Lead with Confidence and Courage.

Build Strong Teams.

Find out about the Tech Lead Accelerator, there is a dedicate website here.

Where You Are

Very often, when you start as a Tech Lead, you are excited, confident, and looking forward to the challenges!

AND AT SOME POINT..

  • You have requests coming from different directions
  • You spend your time managing the team and don’t code as much as you expected to
  • Your team is not proactive

AND

  • You start to experience overwhelm
  • You start working overtime
  • You think about work all the time, even when you’re not working

AND YOU REALISE YOU NEED A DIFFERENT SET OF SKILLS TO DO YOUR JOB

  • Communication skills
  • Self time management skills
  • Delegation
  • People empowerment

This is where the TL ACCELERATOR Program comes in.

What You’ll Achieve

This program isn’t just about building confidence—it’s about transforming how you communicate and creating a work life that works for you while positively impacting those around you.

What becomes possible for you is:

  • Work that you enjoy doing
  • Deal powerfully with challenges
  • Fulfilment in your role

The Steps to Get There

This program is all about giving you the tools to transform how you lead and communicate. 

1.Tech Lead Role & Responsibilities 

The Tech Lead role is not a standardised role. It’s important to get clear about your responsibilities and the expectations others have from you.

We are going to explore your coding expectations and from where you are getting your satisfaction as a Tech Lead.

2.Master boundaries 

Boundaries are not walls—they’re the foundation of freedom and leadership. You’ll learn to:

  • Set and own your boundaries—be clear with your team about your time, availability, and needs.
  • Say no without guilt and make sure your time is spent on what’s important.
  • Learn to balance kindness and directness in meetings.

3. Say It, Mean It, Do It

As a Tech Leader it’s important to keep our promises and if you can’t keep them, being honest and communicating early helps avoid misunderstandings and builds trust. It’s also important to manage the promises that others make to you.

We are going to look at:

  • The things that we say we will do and don’t do, or we are not in communication about it.
  • A system to keep track of promises.
  • The things that others said they will do and have not done it.

4. Master Triggers

Leadership is not just about managing others’ behaviours—it’s about managing your own.

You’ll learn to:

  • Understand what pushes your buttons and why.
  • Own your triggers—recognise them and manage them instead of reacting.
  • Create practices to help process emotions in the moment and return to a grounded state.

5. Your experience isn’t my experience

Not everyone views the world the way we do. We know it. We don’t live it. We don’t practice it. We still expect others to behave as we do.

You’ll learn to validate the opinion of others, being curious about the way they see things. This builds trust, builds relationships and leads to motivation.

How it works

This isn’t a one-size-fits-all program. Will be adjusted to meet your unique challenges, giving you the depth of support you need to create lasting change over the course of 3 months.

✔ 5 x 75 minutes 1:1 Sessions with Andra – Every other week, 60 minutes sessions focused on the steps mentioned above.

✔ Unlimited Support Between Sessions – 24-hour response time to voice notes for ongoing guidance.

✔ 1:1 Onboarding Call  – We begin by setting clear goals and creating a custom roadmap to ensure you’re set up for success.

✔ Tracked progress through self-assessments taken before Session 1, Session 3 and after Session 5.

✔ Midway Check-in Session – A dedicated check-in to ensure you’re on track and adjust our approach if it’s the case.

✔ Content – Videos, workbooks, and guides to support your transformation between sessions.

This journey is not just about learning strategies—it’s about making your work life work and transforming how you lead, communicate, and show up every day.

Investment

By January 1st 2026

  • €600

Standard Price:

  •  €800

How do I register?

If you’re done letting self-doubt, hesitation, and tough conversations hold you back, let’s talk.

🔗 Book a call today and take the first step toward becoming the leader you want to be. Book the call for January and the discount will still apply.

During the call, we’ll explore what’s not working for you right now as a leader and see if the program is a fit for you.

Or you can sign up by paying the €100 deposit here.

Who This Is For

✔ You are a Tech Lead in your first year on the role or you are a Software Engineer wanting to become a Tech Lead
✔ You’re ready to tackle the things that aren’t working in your role—rather than just hoping they change.

Who This Is NOT For

❌ You’re looking for a quick fix instead of committing to growth.
❌ You’re unwilling to challenge old habits and step outside your comfort zone.
❌ You’re not open to deeper reflection and coaching.

Results That Speak for Themselves

The Tech Lead Accelerator Program was a meaningful step forward in my development as an engineering leader. The content was practical, insightful, and directly applicable to my day-to-day challenges. What really stood out, though, was the level of personal support. Andra took the time to connect with me outside of the structured sessions to talk through some of the issues I was facing at work. That kind of generosity and thoughtfulness made the experience feel truly personalized. I walked away with clearer frameworks, greater confidence, and a stronger sense of how to lead effectively. The peer support were incredibly valuable. If you’re stepping into a tech lead role or want to grow as a thoughtful, effective leader, this program is absolutely worth it.

Saumya, Staff Software Engineer @ TAE Power Solutions

I recently completed the Tech Lead Accelerator Program with Andra, and it was a game-changer for me.
The first session helped me align with my leader and team on my role and responsibilities, which was a huge relief. Each session provided valuable tools, but a couple of them were especially impactful (in particular, the ones related to keeping promises and managing emotions).
This program gave me the clarity and practical skills I needed to excel as a Tech Lead. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to enhance their leadership abilities in tech.

Gabriel, Tech Lead @ Valtech

Although I have over six years of experience as a Chapter Lead of a team of 8-10 engineers, I am conscious that good habits break or need to be challenged / revised, and that we need to constantly exercise both fundamentals and iterative improvements in our role, therefore I decided to give a try to the Tech Lead Accelerator program in order to refresh the attributions of my role and get in contact with other professionals and hear other perspectives. The best part of the program is making you find and apply small, but consistent changes to your work as a Tech Lead. I was inspired – and nudged! – to make these changes after each topic in the program, that have now stayed with me. Most of them I wish I made them sooner.

Mihnea, Chapter Lead Engineer @ ING

Being part of the Team Lead Training program with Andra Popa has been a truly transformative experience. Over the course of five sessions, I gained practical tools and deeper insights that have already made a meaningful impact on both my professional and personal life.

Before the program, I often struggled with setting clear boundaries and managing my responsibilities in a sustainable way. Through Andra’s guidance, I learned how to better structure my time, align my commitments with my capacities, and communicate more intentionally. One of the biggest takeaways for me was learning to manage emotional triggers and approach situations with greater awareness and calm.

I also discovered something unexpected: how powerful it is to truly listen — not just to respond, but to understand. This shift alone has significantly improved my relationships with team members and peers.

Andra Popa is an exceptional lecturer. Her approach is empathetic, insightful, and practical. She creates a safe space for honest reflection and growth while keeping the sessions engaging and full of value.

I wholeheartedly recommend this program to anyone in a leadership role — or aspiring to be in one. It’s not just training; it’s a mindset shift.

Ashraf, Team Leader @ Myra Security

This course helped me embrace my new role, reshape my mindset, and fully accept the transition.
If you’re a new Team or Tech Lead feeling unsure about your responsibilities, struggling with communication at different levels, or feeling overwhelmed because you haven’t established clear boundaries at work — this course could really make a difference.
Thank you, Andra, for an insightful and empowering journey into the world of management.

Viktor, Tech Lead @ Auto 1 Group

Before the program I was not feeling confident in my role as tech lead. It was overwhelming to address the different aspects of the role – Should I be coding more? Am I supporting my team enough? What is expected of me? This program has helped me to put the role in perspective and understand and come to terms with the nature of it. Being with seven other Tech Leads from all around the world, allowed us to see that our problems and observations were very common. Andra empowered us to gather the expectations and set agreements around the Tech Lead role at our workplaces to give us a starting point from which to build practices to improve confidence and reduce overwhelm. I now know understand what is expected of me and am able to identify when my work is diverging from the responsibilities of my role. Andra provided a forum for discussion around many important and diverse topics which are common to Tech Leads. She is able to challenge statements and assumptions in a thoughtful and non-confrontation manner, which allows the room to explore different viewpoints and explore their own thoughts and opinions in a new way. I am very grateful for the opportunity to take part in this program. I have come out of it with a new set of tools and practices for different scenarios that I can lean on to help me navigate this role. I feel more confident now in being able to trust my gut, set boundaries, track promises and own it when I have to say “I don’t know”. Thank you, Andra!

Lexi, Tech Lead @ Spektrix