Navigating Your Career
in the Age of AI:
Agile Thinking, Human Judgement, Intentional Choices
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Coaching
AI is moving fast and changing the career landscape. If you feel overwhelmed and are searching for a more intentional career strategy, consider a one-on-one coaching session. I can help you figure out what it means for your work, your team, your life, and what to actually do about it. Visit the coaching page.
Speaking & Media
From Harvard Business School to national agile conferences and podcasts, Amber brings hard-won expertise in product strategy, intentional living, and building teams that thrive — and she makes it accessible, practical, and genuinely engaging for any audience. If you’re looking for a speaker who can connect the dots between great software, great teams, and a great life, let’s talk.
Agile Discovery & Delivery
What if the same principles that the world’s best software teams use to build great products could help you build a better life? Agile Discovery & Delivery is written for the people who work alongside software teams like sales, marketing, executives, support, and anyone new to engineering. You’ll walk away drawing your own conclusions about how these principles apply to your work and your life, because the connections are impossible to miss. No coding or technical knowledge required.
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney Is The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Romney’s book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, is incredibly well-written and eye-opening. Somewhere between her descriptions of the fascinating world of rare book dealing and her excavation of the lives and hardships of famous female authors of the 1700s and 1800s, I realized something that stopped me cold: we have let men curate so much more than just our decisions about what to read. I quickly gave this book five stars. Here’s why you might like to read it too.
How to Shed Obligations When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed
I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed recently. What I’ve learned, after years of accumulating obligations and then having to shed them, is that the solution isn’t to be more disciplined about saying no in the future. It’s to do a periodic audit of everything you’ve already said yes to and then make some harder decisions than you made the first time around.
Fall 2026 Capstone Partners: Welcome to CS 620
CS 620, the Computer Sciences Capstone, is a course I developed and have been teaching since its pilot in Fall 2020. UW-Madison Computer Sciences Capstone Projects offer our undergraduates real-world, hands-on experience while learning and using best practice software development techniques and agile principles. Here are our partners for the Fall 2026.
About Amber
Amber Field writes about the art of intentional living. After retiring early at 41, she shares the practices that helped her build a life she loves: from ruthless prioritization, to reinvention, simplicity, serendipity, and travel. The best lessons from the financial independence and business worlds, applied to leveling up your life. If you’re looking for practical, honest writing about building a life that actually fits you, you’re in the right place.
