You were trained to build software. You were never trained to lead people. EM Accelerator is where you fix that, for the rest of your career.
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You were great at the work. Nobody taught you to lead the people who do it.
So you learn on the job. And the job is people. Their careers. Their pay. Whether they stay or quit. Whether they grow or stall.
Every wrong move has a cost, and your team pays it first. You feel it too. The Sunday dread. The guessing. The sense that everyone else got a manual you never saw.
You are not bad at this. You were just never taught it.
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The EM Playbook · the full course
7 self-paced video modules. 4+ hours of premium video, worksheets and whiteboarding sessions.
A growing course library
New courses added regularly, included. Minimum 2 new courses a year. See current & upcoming →
Monthly live office hours with Ryan
Bring your real situation, get a real answer, live, in two time zones so it fits your day. Recorded if you cannot make it.
A new expert interview every month
Senior leaders from companies like Google and Meta on how they actually run teams. Meet the experts →
Monthly deep-dive articles
One in-depth piece a month.
A private community
A room of leaders dealing with the same week you are.
DM access to Ryan · every working day
Post a question in the community, get Ryan's read on it. Weekday responses. No call to schedule.
The full Q&A library
I record videos answering the questions I get most often in the community and via DMs. Yours from day one.
The worksheet & template bundle
The 1:1 templates, prioritisation matrix and listening-tour scripts members use in week one.
A 30-minute welcome call with me
Book a one-to-one when you join. We map where you are and the fastest first win for your team.
It is built for managers with no spare time. Fast to a first win, light to keep up, nothing to fall behind on.
The expensive option is the one most managers pick by default: keep figuring it out alone.
Industry estimates put the cost of replacing a software engineer at six to nine months of their salary. Poor management is the reason good people leave.
Staying stuck one level below where you should be is thousands a year in salary you never get back, plus the title you wanted.
The slow route is mistake, fallout, recover, repeat. A year and a half to learn what a structured system gives you in a weekend.
Against that, $790 for a year is the cheapest decision on the page.
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Pendo 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.
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.
I am Ryan Murphy. Nearly 20 years in software, the last half-decade building and leading engineering teams at Yelp. I am a 6x top-rated instructor at Dometrain, a two-year member of the LeadDev programming committee, and a speaker at LeadDev and CTO Craft. More than 80,000 engineers and managers read what I write every week.
EM Accelerator is the thing I wish someone had handed me the Monday morning I became a manager. This is the fix.
If it is not the membership I describe on this page, email me inside fourteen days and you get every penny back. No form. No interview. No "what didn't work for you". Just the refund. Read the guarantee in full.
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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, Meta, 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 coursesThis is where you fix that. Not with a book or a podcast, but with a system, a room and someone who has done the job and trained others to do it well.
The membership is $790 for a full year of access. If it is not for you, you have fourteen days to walk away with all of your money.
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