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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A Newport, Rhode Island Girls’ Weekend: Mansions, Cliffs, and a Lot of Kilts
Last week, two friends and I escaped for a girls’ weekend in Newport, Rhode Island. It included gilded Age mansions, a dramatic coastal walk, beaches, a flower show, and more seafood and cookies than I’d like to admit. Newport, it turns out, is an absolutely perfect setting for a few days away with your closest friends.
Exit Interview: A Book Review
I recently read Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career by Kristi Coulter. I picked it up because the title resonated with me. I, too, have had an ambitious tech career and just recently semi-retired, pulling back to teach and run programs at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Coulter’s book was funny, interesting, and, above all, kind of PTSD-inducing if you’re in tech and especially if you’re a woman in tech.
A Different Kind of Power: Why Jacinda Ardern’s Version of Leadership Matters
I just finished A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister from 2017 to 2023. At a moment when the political world feels particularly bleak, Ardern’s book feels different. It’s full of hope (and good decisions). Her tenure as New Zealand’s Prime Minister shows us that a person can hold the highest office in a country and still be, unmistakably and unapologetically, a human being, a woman, and a mom.
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.
