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Kieu Vuong, PhD / Triple certified coach. Former leader at Google, YouTube & Airbnb.
Kieu Vuong, PhD, is a triple-certified coach and career transition specialist. After five career transitions, leadership roles at Google, YouTube and Airbnb, and building multiple businesses herself, she brings firsthand perspective to the choices that shape your work.
Choose the path that fits what you want next: a role in tech or a business built around your expertise.
Job search coaching for tech professionals
Your track record is strong, but something still feels off. Get a clear plan for your next tech role—without throwing away what you’ve built.
Hybrid coaching combines collaborative support, expert guidance, and one-on-one coaching credit to sharpen your search, prepare for interviews, and work toward a role that fits.
Business building for tech professionals
Not a hobby or a daydream. Build a real business around your tech expertise and the life you want.
Starting fresh or growing what you’ve begun, clarify your offer, build a client pipeline, and find paying clients with Kieu’s own system.
The ESVP difference
| What matters | Most programs | ESVP |
|---|---|---|
| 01You walk away with | A course and good intentions | A signed offer, or a business with paying clients |
| 02Where clients land | Vague success stories | Offers at top companies and fast growing brands, like Amazon, Meta, Anthropic and Nike |
| 03Built for | Anyone, any industry | Tech professionals, with coaches and tech leaders who know the industry |
| 04Job search | Apply more, apply faster | Target smarter and reach roles before they’re posted |
| 05Interviews | Practice questions | The psychology behind interviews and the beliefs that hold you back |
| 06Your network | You need one | You build one |
| 07Support | Watch videos and figure it out alone | Group and one-on-one coaching, plus a community that keeps you going |
| 08Your past | Start from scratch | Your experience becomes your advantage |
| 09The system | Theory | Tested in real careers and a real business first |
Career coaching and business building for tech professionals
Showing 8 client stories.
After almost 12 months of searching, I almost gave up hope of ever finding anything in Tech again. I was ready to leave tech and product management behind before I joined Kieu’s program. She showed me simple strategies that I followed. I couldn’t believe it but after a few weeks, I started hearing back from a few places and things got much more interesting and busy in a good way. I was able to secure two offers with a competitive package. Thank you Kieu and the team for turning this around for me. I’ll be forever grateful!
I was not looking for a different position. I was looking for my own peace. The opportunity just unfolded from there.
There was a pivot from almost complacency and acceptance of my existence versus having that fire lit under me again. Your perspective is worth every penny.
Working with Kieu has been a valuable experience. She's direct, insightful, and efficient—someone who gets you on the right track quickly. I also learned a great deal from observing how she structures conversations and confidently leads a room. I'm genuinely grateful for her coaching program and guidance.
When I joined Kieu and ESVP, I’d been out of work for five months and my spray-and-pray approach wasn’t getting results. Despite 25 years in UX and strong references, the lack of traction was discouraging. Kieu and her team helped me clarify my target role and company profile, then guided me through a multi-pronged plan to tell my story more effectively, resulting in a stronger résumé, portfolio, and online presence. I landed a new role well aligned with my strengths. I’m deeply grateful to Kieu and highly recommend the program.
Kieu has been an outstanding career coach and mentor throughout my professional journey. What stands out most is her ability to listen closely, understand my unique challenges, and offer practical, actionable advice that always feels tailored to me. Her methods around interview preparation were especially impactful. I’m incredibly grateful for her support and would recommend her to anyone looking for a thoughtful, skilled, and results-driven career coach.
If you're not clear on your values, how are you making your decisions?
Coaching with Kieu has literally changed my life because I’ve learned to let go of fear, I know what I’m capable of... Kieu helped completely erase that old paradigm and now I don’t care, I just do a lot of things guilt free but with purpose.
These are individual client experiences, not a guarantee of interviews, offers, compensation or timing.
The person behind the workFIVE CAREERS IN, HERE’S WHAT I’VE LEARNED.
Unlike most career coaches I know, I didn’t change my career once, twice, or even three times. I switched industries, changed roles, and reinvented myself from scratch five times without starting over at the bottom. I’ve moved from investment banking to management consulting, academia, tech leadership, and now coaching and building my own business.
Every one of those moves started with the same question: How do I tell my story right?
Transitions are scary, messy, and nobody really prepares us for them. You need to get clear on what you want, what you’re already good at, what skills are valuable in the market, and how to articulate your value so people understand why they should choose you.
I built a successful career in tech, earning two to three times more than colleagues at the same level while holding leadership roles at some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google. Then I chose to leave Google to build a business and a life that gave me the freedom to be the parent I wanted to be.
As a triple-certified coach, PhD, and former leader at some of the world’s biggest tech companies, I bring professional expertise and firsthand experience navigating change.
Today, I help people make their next move—whether that’s landing a better-paying tech role with the title, scope, and intellectual challenge they deserve; finding a new career direction; or leaving corporate to build a business of their own.
My coaching style is direct, flexible, and insightful. I don’t believe in boring, conventional methods or cookie-cutter formulas. I care about helping you make the change you actually want.
Whatever your next chapter looks like, I’m here for it.
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