executive coaching for Senior leaders

Confidential, no BS partnership to tackle your biggest leadership challenges.

coaching

For senior leaders, the stakes are high, the relationships are messy, and there’s no playbook. I help you navigate all of it — making tough calls, building trust, and leading with influence. I work with Directors, VPs, CEOs, and Heads of Product, Design, and Research to drive more impact and better leadership.

REal Problems

Working through today’s challenges is the path to growth. We’ll deal with what’s in front of you, then build patterns and habits to take your leadership to the next level.

Real evidence

You’re not alone — there’s 100+ years of ideas to draw from. I’m a leadership expert with a PhD in Social Psychology. I’ll make the best leadership ideas simple and practical.

real talk

There’s no time for vague coaching nonsense. ll ask questions and tell you what I think. I’ll encourage you, challenge you, and burst your bubble. Direct, kind, and no BS.

It can be lonely at the top, and hard to know where to turn when you want to do better.

That’s why I’m here.
Reach out for a free intro session.

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In addition to coaching, I offer a variety of consulting services focused on organizational design & development, strategic planning for products and organizations, and individual leadership advising. I specialize in two areas:

CONSULTING

Transforming Product
& Design Teams

I work with companies that are evolving their products and organizations. I’ll work with you to understand what your business needs, and then import the best practices that will work for your unique context. I can help you find the right people for the job, and set them up for success.

The key insight is that successful businesses need lean, flexible organizations and effective leaders to support them. I can help you develop an insight-driven product strategy with your org in mind. Or maybe you already have a robust strategy and you need the org to support it. No matter what, I’ll make sure your product vision and your org plan are in lockstep.

Rescuing Organizations
in Crisis

I help rescue troubled organizations, teams, and projects - what I call dumpster firefighting. From inefficiency and lack of impact to actively toxic or crumbling teams, effectively dealing with an organization in crisis is a huge distraction and a huge challenge. I can help.

As a PhD Social Psychologist and a battle-tested dumpster firefighter, I know how to get to the heart of challenges and quickly build trust. I’ll uncover and communicate the hard truths with directness, honesty, and kindness. And I’ll develop and help you execute a plan to put things right.

Selected Clients

I can't recommend Judd highly enough. I valued our work together and learned a lot from the experience. Judd has a great ability to understand the situation, identify root issues, and drive change. He is visionary and pragmatic, and knows how to help move an organization forward and uplevel of the team.

— Katie Dill, Head of Design, Stripe
I hired Judd as an executive consultant to improve the performance of my product, design, and research organization and help recruit key leaders. Judd made significant contributions to my organization’s success by harnessing his unique blend of technology industry leadership experience at Airbnb and Meta plus science-backed, academic expertise. Judd is insightful, forthright, and always a pleasure to work with. I would hire Judd again for future projects in a heartbeat.

— Kai Xu, CPO, Rappi
Judd possesses an exceptionally rare set of skills: the ability to understand nuance and complexity, the macro and the micro, all while making it feel navigable and surmountable. He’s an exceptional listener, capable of uncovering the root of the issue without giving away the answer, instead empowering you to find your own path forward. The best part of working with Judd? You want his advice, and you’re not afraid he’s going to think you don’t know what you’re doing.

— Shelley Osborne, Director of Learning & Development, Airbnb

Judd Antin, PhD

I’ve spent nearly 15 years as a product executive at some of tech’s fastest-growing — and most challenging — companies.

At Facebook, I helped build a powerful, insights-driven product practice. I led and scaled research teams across the company’s core apps, and incubated product visions in emerging areas like news media, video, and advertising. I was also in the room for some of the earliest crises around privacy and content quality, helping teams navigate complex trade-offs under public scrutiny.

At Airbnb, I wore many hats — Head of Research, General Manager, Head of Design — building innovative products and high-functioning cross-functional organizations. I partnered directly with founders and the C-Suite on company-wide strategic and organizational priorities, and was often tapped as a “fixer” to resolve urgent product and leadership challenges.

Beyond industry, I hold a PhD from UC Berkeley in Social Psychology & Information Systems, where I now teach graduate courses in leadership, management, and the psychology of product design. My work bridges the rigor of academic research with the realities of high-stakes business leadership.

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Contact

Curious to know more? Interested in working together? It all starts with a conversation.

Drop me a line at judd@juddantin.com
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