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✦ The People Leadership Newsletter for Technical Minds
Where
analytical minds
learn to lead people.
Nobody teaches you how to lead people. Not your technical degree, not your years as an IC, not your first months as a manager. Code to People fills that gap — practical frameworks for your first years in management, from someone still in the room.
The Playbook Series
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Available Now
The IC to Manager Transition
Your First 90 Days
The foundation — understand what changed, know your team, redefine your role, and build trust in your first 90 days.
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02
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The Management Cycle
Direction, Ownership & Feedback
03
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Managing Through Complexity
Conflict, Performance & Intervention
04
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Building and Growing Your Team
From Manager to Leader
Every Issue
Built for how you think.
Each edition goes deep on one people leadership skill nobody taught you — written for analytical minds navigating their first years in management.
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Leadership Frameworks
Proven mental models adapted for analytical minds — not generic management thinking recycled from a business school textbook.
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Communication Tactics
How to translate technical depth into executive presence, clear decisions, and stakeholder alignment.
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Real-World Scenarios
Case studies and examples pulled from actual leadership challenges managing teams across different industries — because the hard parts of managing people are universal.
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Actionable Takeaways
Every issue ends with one clear thing you can apply this week — no fluff, no theory without practice.
Who's behind this
Written by a manager still actively in the room.
I'm Andrea — a Group Manager leading a technical team at one of the world's largest tech platforms. I started as a senior analyst at a top investment bank, made the jump to people manager overnight, and spent years building the system I wish someone had handed me on day one.
Seven years in, I'm still managing. Not retrospectively, not in theory. Code to People is what I actually run — built from real teams, real mistakes, and a lot of pattern recognition across Finance, Media, and Tech.
Experience
7+ years leading teams
Industries
Finance · Media · Tech
Education
MS Data Analytics · BBA
Journey
Senior IC → Group Manager
Latest Issues
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01 Delegation & Ownership
02 Feedback & Development
03 Role & Identity
The Playbook
Ready to go deeper? There's a system for that.
The newsletter gives you weekly insights. The playbook gives you the complete foundation — a structured 90-day operating system for making the IC-to-manager transition with confidence.
✓ The IC-to-Manager identity shift
✓ Team mapping framework
✓ 80/20 Time Audit + Stop Doing List
✓ Trust-building foundations
✓ Week-by-week 90-day plan
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Playbook 1
IC to Manager Transition
Your First 90 Days
01 The Core Shift
02 Know Your Team
03 Build Trust
04 Your 90-Day Plan