The clarity you need starts here.
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The problem is not your ability
The common thread is a feeling, not a profession. Something has to change, but it is hard to name what.
People come at turning points: returning from a career gap and unable to find footing again, stuck in a role that no longer fits who they have become, carrying ambition they have not been given room to use, or simply feeling that the next step is somewhere they cannot yet see.
The work is for people who are functional, capable, and quietly dissatisfied – who know there is more in them than their current situation allows.
“At first I didn’t know what to expect. I doubted that talking could change anything. And I wasn’t sure I had anything worth saying about myself. I was wrong on both counts.”
– Business professional
Twenty years of the same questions
I know what it feels like to carry ambition in an environment that does not quite see it yet. I also know what changes that – and it is rarely what the person expected when they first walked in. I am Esko Lehtme – design executive and career coach. Twenty years in design business, leading teams since 2012, coaching professionals one-on-one since 2023.
The most common thing I hear after a first session: “I already knew that. I just hadn’t said it out loud.”
People who find their way to coaching usually come through someone else – a colleague, a friend, someone who went through it and could not stop talking about it.
How it works
Sessions are one-on-one – in person in Tallinn when possible, over video when not.
Coaching
I ask questions people have not asked themselves before. The answers are already there – the deep work during the session is creating the conditions to find them. I do not give advice. I listen carefully, ask the next question, and reflect back what I hear. The pace is set by what emerges.
“You always guide me into the discomfort zone to find answers within myself – without ever saying them to me.”
– Team lead
Mentorship
Mentorship works differently. I share experiences and anecdotes from my own career openly – including the failures. Where it helps, I bring in frameworks, tools, and references.
In coaching, the client finds their own answers. In mentorship, I offer mine as material to work with. You decide what fits.
“You ask questions I wouldn’t have thought of myself – even though the answers were already inside me. You never handed me the answers. You helped me see them.”
– UX designer
A simple plan
1. Book a free discovery conversation. We talk for 30 minutes. You share where you are. I share how I work. We find out if this is the right fit – for both of us.
2. Based on what emerges, we map out your sessions – the focus, the schedule, and your development goals.
3. We meet regularly. I ask the questions. You find the answers. The direction gets clearer with each conversation.
What this work does
Professionals who go through this leave with something they did not come in expecting: a confidence in their own judgment they had not felt in years.
Some apply for roles they had been circling for years – and spend weeks preparing, because the direction is finally clear. Some have the direct conversation with their manager about the thing they had been avoiding. Some start the business they had been calling just an idea. Some shift positions entirely, retrain, and build toward something that fits who they have actually become.
They know what they want – and can say it out loud.
“Your approach, your flexibility, your uncomfortable – meaning necessary – questions, your warm presence. Every session felt psychologically safe. I could talk without a mask.”
– Architect
What stays the same if you do not
The next opportunity will come – and pass – before you have figured out what you actually want. The role that does not fit will still not fit. The gap between your capability and your situation will keep quietly growing.
Clarity takes the right conditions and the right questions.
Find the clarity your career needs.
The first conversation costs nothing. Thirty minutes to find out if this is the right fit – for both of us.
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