# Engineering Leadership Toolkit

> Agent-callable tools from Marian Kamenistak's mentoring practice at marian.coach: developer and engineering-manager salary models, a calibrated team-lead readiness test, 1:1 playbooks, coaching-cost estimates and first-party leadership benchmarks — grounded in 3,611 paid 1:1 mentoring sessions with 300+ engineering leaders since 2019.

- **Domain**: `www.marian.coach`
- **Provider**: Marian Kamenistak - marian.coach (https://www.marian.coach/)
- **A2A protocol version**: 1.0
- **Kind**: a2a_agent
- **Live-responds (last probe)**: False
- **Signed card**: False
- **Streaming**: True
- **Quality score**: 80%

## Skills
- **Developer value & salary calculator** — Assess a software developer's market value: score 15 skills across 5 pillars (core craft, systems & judgment, impact & ownership, collaboration & influence, AI 
- **Engineering manager value & salary calculator** — Assess an engineering leader's market value: score 15 leadership skills across 5 pillars (people & talent, delivery & execution, technical direction, stakeholde
- **Team lead readiness test — should this engineer become a team lead?** — Answers "should I become a team lead?" with the same 17-question test as the live tool at marian.coach: 6 dimensions (people appetite, letting go of code, owner
- **Engineering leadership benchmarks & mentoring statistics** — Real benchmarks from 3,611 paid 1:1 mentoring sessions with 300+ engineering leaders since 2019: mentee seniority mix, most-demanded leadership topics of 2025, 
- **Mentor vs coach vs advisor — which one do you need?** — Decide whether an engineering leader needs a mentor, a coach, or an advisor: what each brings, the typical question each answers, whether domain experience is r
- **1:1 playbooks for engineering managers** — Situation-specific 1:1 scripts and templates from Marian Kamenistak's mentoring practice: first mentoring/direction-setting session, underperformance conversati
- **First-time engineering manager readiness & failure modes** — Guidance for the IC→manager transition: the EM responsibility triangle (leadership/processes/delivery — pick two), the six most common first-time-manager failur
- **Coaching cost estimator — what should a coach cost?** — Fair market rate for coaching or mentoring in 2026, by coaching type, client role, coach territory, coach seniority, and engagement length. Returns a per-sessio
- **Get your company to pay: ROI math, manager email, one-pager** — Build the case that gets your company to pay for leadership mentoring — everything on marian.coach/get-your-company-to-pay-for-mentoring/, personalised: the fou

## URLs
- Agent card: https://www.marian.coach/.well-known/agent-card.json
- Page (HTML): https://agenstry.com/agents/www.marian.coach
- Documentation: https://www.marian.coach/ai-coaching-tools/