Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Will Larson

Will Larson is CTO at Carta, and has been a software engineering leader at Calm, Stripe, and Uber.

Will Larson is CTO at Carta, and has been a software engineering leader at Calm, Stripe, and Uber. He is the author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and The Engineering Executive’s Primer. Before moving to San Francisco, he grew up in North Carolina.

Leading with policy, consensus, and conviction: Three distinct leadership styles for effective engineering leadership

In this talk I'll share the situations that exposed my limited toolkit of leadership styles, the new styles I've added, and how I got comfortable using them.

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