Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Sally Lait

Sally is an Engineering Director – Safety & Trust at Bumble Inc.

Sally Lait specialises in building strong engineering culture, and aims to create supportive and inclusive environments for managers, developers, and teams to thrive and do fantastic technical work.

Her roles have included helping to change the way the world deals with death as VP of Engineering (plus IT & Data and Insights) at Farewill, prior to which she led Monzo’s web discipline and engineering across Operations through hypergrowth. Other experience involves founding a digital transformation consultancy with clients including the Manor Racing F1 team and RNLI, and working as Head of Technology for a global digital agency.
Sally’s a strong advocate for building software and teams alike with empathy, responsibility, and accessibility in mind. She’s spoken at events around the world, is on Mastodon at @https://mastodon.social/@sally, and you can find out more about her at sally.dev.

Making executive onboarding a smooth journey

Some tips on how to onboard senior leaders and executives with relative ease, based on recent experience.

Creating inclusive career ladders

Sally Lait will cover some common pitfalls, and will go through a practical set of prompts to help you make sure your career ladder can work well for everyone.

Video

Building bridges with difficult co-workers

Strategies for working with people you don’t like

Digging into the details of your next engineering role

How to find an engineering role that's right for you