Engineering management,
handled in real time.
Stop learning the people side by trial and error. Handle the real management moments, feedback, delegation, difficult conversations, with confidence in 30 days.
or start a 7 day free trial no card required
See inside EM Accelerator, live.
A free, live discovery session with Ryan, every Wednesday. He walks through the whole platform and answers anything you throw at him. No hard sales tactics.
Wednesdays don't suit? Message me and we'll find a time.
Save your seat
Wednesdays, 4:00 PM London. I'll email you the link and a reminder before we go live.
You're on the list
Check your inbox, the joining link and a reminder are on their way. See you Wednesday.
You already know which conversation you are avoiding.
You know your 1:1s are really status updates.
You know it is quicker to do it yourself, and that this is the problem.
None of that is a character flaw. Nobody taught you the job.
You see the shift
Doer to enabler. Your value stops being how much you do, and becomes the conditions you create.
You handle it
A real people-management situation on your desk, dealt with with clarity, structure and confidence.
You operate like an EM
Creating clarity, supporting performance, enabling others, helping the team deliver better work.
You stay sharp
New scenarios, new interviews, office hours, and a room to ask in. The part that does not end.
Learn from people who actually run teams.
Chris Ellis
Dr Claire Knight
James Charlesworth
John Weatherford
Julia Wallin
Suresh Choudhary
Alev Yildirim
Actual Member Reviews
Get it wrong here, not with your team.
Reading about a hard conversation is not the same as having one. Sit across from an AI that reacts like the real person: it pushes back, goes quiet, digs in. Then get an honest debrief on what landed and what to fix, before it is your actual report on the other side of the desk.
- It reacts like a real report
- Watch them open up, or not
- Coached by Ryan afterwards
Your real report is never the one you practise on.
This is not just a course. It is everything a course leaves you to figure out alone.
- The EM Playbook, all seven modules
- New courses through the year
- Expert interviews with senior leaders
- Monthly deep-dive articles
- Certificate of completion
- The AI Manager Simulator
- Worksheets, scripts and templates
Rehearse the conversation before you have it for real.
- Live office hours with Ryan
- Direct access to Ryan, every working day
- A private room of other EMs
- The full Q&A library
- A 30-minute welcome call
Also in the $349 course. Everything else is membership only.
Membership
Everything, while you're a member
- EM Playbook, yours to keep forever
- New courses added regularly
- The AI Manager Simulator
- Monthly live office hours
- Expert interview library
- Monthly deep-dive articles
- Private peer community
- Full Q&A library
- Direct access to Ryan
- 30-minute welcome call
or start a 7 day free trial, no card required
14-day refund, less 10% admin fee
Not ready to be a member?
EM Playbook
The flagship course, yours to keep
- All seven modules
- Worksheets and templates
- Quizzes and reference guides
- Certificate of completion
- Yours to keep forever
- No private community
- No live office hours
- No AI simulator
- No expert interviews
- No Q&A library
- No direct access to Ryan
14-day refund, less 10% admin fee
Most people pick membership.
Most members expense this to their training budget.
Most scale-ups and mid-market teams have a learning and development budget, and this is exactly what it's for. Grab the ready-made one-pager, send it to your manager, and expense your membership.
Download the manager one-pager → Or read how to expense engineering manager trainingLook around for 14 days. Refund if it's not for you.
Take an annual membership, or the course on its own, log in, look around, and decide whether it feels like the right support. If it does not, ask for a refund inside fourteen days, less a 10% admin fee. No awkwardness, no hard sell, no hoops. Monthly has no refund window, but you can cancel any time before your next payment.
Still not confident? I coach you myself. Free.
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.
The programme I wish existed when I made the leap.
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.
What people are actually saying.
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.
One of the things I valued most about working with Ryan was his intellectual honesty and willingness to challenge conventional thinking. He never accepted ideas at face value simply because they came from authority or consensus; instead, he brought thoughtful questions, independent judgment, and a genuinely constructive mindset to every discussion. Ryan has a rare ability to push teams toward better decisions without creating friction, and the quality of conversations improved noticeably when he was involved. I learned a great deal from working alongside him, and his example continues to influence how I approach collaboration and leadership today.
FAQs
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. Most companies cover this through their learning and development budget. Here is how to expense engineering manager training, including what to say and a one-pager written for the person approving it.
On an annual membership, and on the EM Playbook course bought on its own, 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 ask for a refund within 14 days with no awkwardness, no hard sell, and no hoops. The refund is the amount you paid less a 10% admin fee.
A monthly membership works differently. There is no refund window, but you can cancel at any point before your next payment and keep access to the end of the month you have paid for.
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.
Handle the moment you'd usually avoid.
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.
Join EM AcceleratorWant the full picture first?
No rush. Read the detail, then decide.
More about Ryan
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 libraryThe expert interviews
Senior leaders from Google, GitHub and more on how they actually run teams. The full lineup.
Meet the experts → The curriculumCourses, current & upcoming
The EM Playbook today, plus everything landing in the library next. See what is on the way.
Browse the courses →