Mathias Meyer
Mathias is founding partner at The Intentional Organization and executive coach to founders, CTOs, and senior engineering leaders. He supports his clients and their leadership teams in their personal and professional growth as they’re scaling out their business and their departments. Together with his business partner Sara, he’s co-authoring the forthcoming book “The Intentional Organization.” Starting his career as an engineer, Mathias has later worked in founder, CEO, and CTO roles across different companies, including Travis CI and Reaction Commerce.
Don’t drop the baton, or how a team that communicates well collaborates well
Effective team communication shapes company culture at all levels. In this talk, we'll explore habits, principles, and frameworks to foster healthy communication patterns.
The key to good communication? Don’t drop the baton
Start working on your handoffs
How to give feedback without killing morale
Instilling a culture of free-flowing feedback between team members is difficult but not impossible.
Can you lead a struggling team to success?
Taking a leadership position of a struggling team isn't exactly a smooth ride. With ups and downs, it can be difficult to see a positive end.
How can I rebuild a struggling team’s confidence and trust?
When there's friction in the team you're managing, morale, performance, and trust all take a hit. How can you rectify the situation?
Ask Mathias: How can I build a business that lasts?
In today's market it can be difficult to know where to start when building your business. Community corner's Mathias is here to help.
Ask Mathias: Help! I feel like I don’t fit in at work
If you're struggling to fit in at work, here are some options to try and fix the issue.
Ask Mathias: How can I avoid hiring folks working more than one job?
In the age of work from home, how can you certify that someone is only working one job at a time? Is it even a bad thing if they do?
Ask Mathias: How do I influence my product peer?
Influencing people is a hard game – particularly if it's a peer who's working style doesn't mesh well with yours. Here's some things to try.
Ask Mathias: How can I add value to a team of senior engineers?
How do you add value when managing a team of senior engineers? Mathias has the answers.
Ask Mathias: How do I define my role without any guidance?
Once you get to a certain level, it can be difficult to understand the parameters of your role.
Ask Mathias: How can I increase velocity when I’m already at full speed?
My team and I are already going as fast as we can. I can’t see how we have the capacity to increase velocity. Can you help?
Avoiding the priority zero trap
How can you successfully prioritize tasks in situations where everything is urgent?
Ask Mathias: How do I delegate my work when I don’t have enough time?
I just can’t seem to stop completing tasks I should be handing off to my team. Can you help?
Decision making - The first 5000 years
Mathias Meyer talks about what ingredients you need in place for your decision-making to flow without you really having to do anything, with just a dash of laziness and looking towards what the future might behold, both good and bad (and neutral).
Answering some common engineering leadership questions
After multiple speed coaching sessions during LeadDev London in June, Lena and Mathias share some common questions they get from engineering leaders, and some steps to take to help.
Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team
The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same office or in offices across different locations.
