Philip Parrock

I started working at Amazon Web Services in March of 2015 as a Technical Customer Support Associate, before pivoting through content development, quality analysis, training, and onboarding. In 2016 I was promoted to a Team Lead Role and in 2018, to a Team Manager role. It was this role that I continued in until completing my time at AWS, 7 years after starting there and having learned an awful lot. After having been diagnosed with a Diffuse, Large, B-Cell Lymphoma in February of 2018, I spent most of 2018 either in a hospital bed or in recovery, which led, in no small part, to the start of the journey that I am on today.

At the end of 2019, I completed an Executive and Management Coaching Course at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Taking what I learned in that course and pairing it with my over 2500 coaching hours as a team manager, I decided to leave Amazon in March of 2022 and start my own Development and Career Coaching business, called Campfire Coaching. I hope to help guide and inspire the next generation of young people to make better decisions in their lives and careers. I leverage the knowledge and ability I have built up over the past 7 years of 1-to-1 coaching and to see the incredible journeys that young people today can take and continue to take.