Brad Olson

My focus is "Happiness for Coders," working with software engineers whose burnout is sabotaging their work, relationships, and health so they can become profitable, happy, and balanced.

If you love to code, there's no work that satisfies like software engineering. There's also no work quite like it for pulling you over the edge. The intellectual and financial rewards, combined with the pressures of start-up culture or politics of large organizations can find you in a place where, internally, you feel like there's nothing left. Your heart is dry. Your body hurts. Your relationships erode. You begin to dread your work. It can feel like the only choices are to numb and endure or quit and take a job that's less rewarding.

But that dried-out feeling is an opportunity. If you're willing to do the inner work, you can come out the other side grounded, connected with what you love the most, enjoying your life, your work, and maybe even finding your life's work.

I have decades of experience in the software industry, both in startups and the enterprise. I also have over a decade of experience mentoring.