I coach people who are stuck and need help finding their direction when the usual conversations fall short. My clients are product designers, leaders, and people in transition. If this sounds like you, let's talk.
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Andrew Tolentino
Life & Career Coach and Product Design Leader
Professional coach and founder of Honest Club, with 20 years of product design experience and a track record of building and leading design teams at Intuit Credit Karma.
Coaching
Experience
Founder and Professional Life & Career Coach
2026 - Present
Honest Club 路 San Francisco, CA
A coaching practice and community for product designers who need more than generic career advice. I work with career changers, designers from non-traditional backgrounds, and ICs moving into management. I teach the fundamentals, then help people apply them to their reality.
Senior Manager, Product Design
2011 - 2026
Intuit Credit Karma 路 San Francisco & Oakland, CA
Joined in 2011 to design and build experiences helping members improve their credit. From 2017, led and managed design for the Home vertical, helping members make progress toward buying and owning a home. Grew from IC designer to design manager over 15 years, hiring and developing design teams along the way.
Lead Production / UX Designer
2009 - 2011
QualityHealth (acquired by Sharecare) 路 Jersey City, NJ
Led production and UX design for consumer health experiences.
Things I'm Building
A one-page dashboard that pulls my calendar into a single glanceable week
A crew-rated map of Bay Area restaurants serving tater tots
A map of where I've eaten, what I ordered, and whether I'd go back
Maker Space
Small-batch banana bread
Pottery & ceramics studio
Previous pop-up Filipino & Asian bakery in San Francisco
Weekly podcast with hot takes on life, culture, and food (currently on hiatus)
Skills
Design
- Product & UX design
- Design systems
- User research
- Prototyping
- Interaction design
- AI prototyping
- AI coding
- Consumer fintech
Leadership
- Team management
- Hiring & onboarding
- Design strategy
- Critique facilitation
- Cross-functional partnership
- Mentorship
Coaching
- Co-Active coaching
- Career transitions
- Leadership development
- Workshop facilitation
- Public speaking
- Community building
Education
Co-Active Practitioner (CAP)
2026
Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
Completed CTI's intensive Co-Active coaching program; currently working toward full ICF accreditation.
Executive Program, Social Innovation Design
2019 - 2020
University of Pennsylvania
Design thinking for social innovation, using human-centered practices to understand a situation, define the problem, generate ideas, and prototype and refine them so they can actually be implemented.
B.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology
2005 - 2011
Pi Kappa Phi 路 Student Activities Council 路 Music Interest Club