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Splice Coaching

Build the best version of your media self.

Being in journalism is hard. Are you a media or journalism leader, a product thinker, a revenue earner, a freelancer, or a startup founder rethinking your mission?

Do you need to be reminded about your purpose — the reason we’re in this crazy business?

We’ll help you figure it out. Book a free chat.

Hi. We’re Alan and Rishad, and we’re your coaches.

A great part of our combined 50 years in journalism, business, product, design, and media leadership has been dedicated to helping people build the best versions of themselves. We’ll have more coaches coming soon!

We’d love to do this with you.

I’m Alan Soon. I’m a Splice co-founder and a certified professional coach.

I’ll help you to see things more clearly, explore options, and decide a path of change.

I’m Rishad Patel. I’m a Splice co-founder and an experienced mentor.

I’ll help you build a product, business, or audience strategy that creates revenue.

We started Splice to help media businesses become viable.

And that starts with the people behind them: Media entrepreneurs, journalists, newsroom leaders, mid-career news professionals, freelancers — people like you.

We can help you get unstuck.