Lessons Earned In The Field. Forged Under Pressure.

Fifteen years of leading global technology teams and six years of military service, distilled into lessons for the technology leaders coming up behind.

Find Your Path

15 Years leading technology teams

Global Teams across time zones

6 Years United States Army Reserve

3 Stages of leadership

Your Path

Where Are You On Your Leadership Journey?

Choose your stage. Each one comes with the shift it demands and lessons from the field.

The Approach

Why The Field

Earned, Not Theorized

Every lesson here comes from a real moment: a launch under pressure, a reorg that didn't land, a conversation that should have happened sooner.

Context Is Everything

What works for a team of five breaks at fifty across four time zones. Field lessons carry the context that generic advice leaves out.

Reading As A Lens

Good books help name what experience teaches. They're a lens on the work, never a substitute for doing it.

About

Miguel Cayetano

Senior Manager, Reliability Engineering & Operations

For fifteen years I've led global technology teams through high-stakes moments, reorganizations, rapid growth and the quiet, everyday work of helping people become the leaders they're capable of being. I also served six years in the United States Army Reserve, an experience that shaped how I think about discipline, duty and leading people.

Empower Leadership is where I write down what fifteen years in the field have taught me. It's for the engineer wondering whether leadership is for them, the new manager finding their footing, and the leader learning to lead other leaders.

Experience: 15 years leading global technology teams
Military Service: 6 years, United States Army Reserve
Education: MBA Candidate, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; M.S., Management and Leadership, Western Governors University; B.S., Information Technology, Western Governors University