Stop learning the people side by trial and error. Handle the real management moments, feedback, delegation, difficult conversations, with confidence in 30 days.
Most new EMs learn the people side by trial and error, while their team feels every delayed conversation and vague 1:1. This is built so you handle the real moment instead, the first time it lands on your desk.
The one you keep rehearsing and never quite start. You go in clear and land it well.
Underperformance, a missed commitment, a tension on the team. Handled, not avoided.
Not a status update. A conversation that gets your engineer talking and moving.
Knowing what to hand over, to whom, and how, without hovering or dropping it.
Making what good looks like unmistakable, so nobody is guessing, least of all you.
The situation you would normally delay or overthink. You deal with it this month.
Doer to enabler. Your value stops being how much you do, and becomes the conditions you create.
A real people-management situation on your desk, dealt with with clarity, structure and confidence.
Creating clarity, supporting performance, enabling others, helping the team deliver better work.
You are not buying a pile of courses. You are buying the outcome above. This is the system that gets you to it, and keeps you sharp long after.
Join, log in, look around, and decide whether it feels like the right support. If it does not, cancel within fourteen days. No awkwardness, no hard sell, no hoops.
Follow the work for thirty days and if you still do not feel clear and confident handling the real people-management situations you face, you get four weekly 1:1 sessions with Ryan at no extra cost.
Top-rated 6x instructor at Dometrain, two-year LeadDev programme committee member, and speaker at LeadDev and CTO Craft, with nearly 20 years experience in software engineering.
I built and led engineering teams at Yelp for nearly half a decade. I write to 80,000+ followers every week. EM Accelerator is the system I needed and never had.
It's never been a more exciting time to be an engineering manager. Or a more challenging one. Ryan offers a complete leadership package with insights, tools, and community support you won't get from onboarding. He's been in the EM trenches long enough to be your best guide to mastering this difficult role.
I've known Ryan for a long time, and if you're an engineer stepping into leadership, or trying to do it better, you should be talking to him. He's that rare combination: an excellent engineering manager and a genuinely great coach. He doesn't lecture. He helps you think clearly about your situation and figure out what to do next. If you're considering coaching to level up as a manager, I can't recommend him highly enough.
Ryan's work has weight. He writes about engineering management with practical clarity and hard-won judgment. Trust, feedback, ambiguity, tension, the decisions no framework can make for you. If his EM Accelerator carries the same honesty as his writing, it will be worth serious attention.
Ryan Murphy's insights are valuable for any engineer looking to level up. Unlike many industry voices, his background as an Engineering Manager allows him to bridge the gap between technical execution and leadership.
Ryan transformed my approach to communication both upwards and to my team. He enabled me to move into roles that otherwise felt beyond my reach, and gave me a new level of confidence when dealing with superiors.
Ryan's content feels very real and honest: actual day-to-day engineering leadership experience, not just high-level theory. I really appreciate how openly he shares challenges, lessons learned, and vulnerable moments while staying practical and relevant to what engineering managers deal with today.
I wish I'd had something like this when I made the IC-to-EM transition. It would have given me a clear framework for the different stages of leadership, how to navigate tough situations, and what to actually expect from the role. Ryan has built something that addresses the gaps no one prepares you for.
This is for Software ICs who are about to become Engineering Managers, or newly promoted Engineering Managers in their first 12 months.
It is especially relevant if you are in a growing scale-up or mid-market software team and are starting to deal with the people side of the role for the first time.
It will help you handle your first real people-management situation with more clarity, structure, and confidence.
That could be a feedback conversation, a difficult conversation, a better 1:1, delegation, expectation-setting, or a team member situation you would usually avoid, delay, or overthink.
No.
This is built specifically for newly promoted Engineering Managers in software teams who are making the shift from technical contributor to people leader.
The focus is not generic leadership theory. It is about the real first-year people-management moments that start landing on your desk once you become an EM.
No.
That is actually a good time to start, because you can understand the shift before you are already in the middle of difficult conversations, vague 1:1s, unclear delegation, or team issues you are expected to handle.
Within 2 weeks, the aim is for you to understand the shift from default doer to confident enabler.
Within 30 days, the aim is for you to handle your first real people-management situation with more clarity, structure, and confidence.
Over 90 days, the bigger aim is to help you operate more like an Engineering Manager by creating clarity, supporting performance, enabling others, and helping the team deliver better work.
Yes, and many do. Contact me and I'll send you my one-pager to forward to your manager. Email ryan@emaccelerator.com.
You are covered by the 14-Day No Quibble Guarantee.
You can join, log in, look around, and decide whether it feels like the right support. If it does not, you can cancel within 14 days with no awkwardness, no hard sell, and no hoops.
You are covered by the 30-Day Confidence Guarantee.
If you follow the work for 30 days and still do not feel clear and confident handling your first real people-management situation, you will get 4 weekly 1:1 sessions at no extra cost.
Because this includes personalised support, DM access, office hours, community interaction, and answers to real EM situations.
To keep that support useful, only up to 10 new members are taken on each month.
Stop learning the people side by trial and error while your team pays for it. Handle the real management situations with confidence, in 30 days.
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Nearly 20 years in tech, half a decade leading at Yelp, and the whole story of why he built this.
Read the full story → The librarySenior leaders from Google, GitHub and more on how they actually run teams. The full lineup.
Meet the experts → The curriculumThe EM Playbook today, plus everything landing in the library next. See what is on the way.
Browse the courses →Fifteen minutes, no pitch. Bring the situation on your desk and get a straight answer on whether this is the right fit for you.