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Leading high-performing engineering organizations

Adapting your leadership for a downturn

Leading through a downturn requires a different approach. Here’s how to realign your leadership to suit this new set of challenges.

How to lead individuals with advanced technical expertise

If you’re a manager of individual contributor’s who have more years of experience on you, you may be confused on how best to lead them.

Tech layoffs are making things worse for women in leadership

The recent wave of layoffs has left fewer women in leadership positions, can the trend be reversed?

How to lead senior engineers as a new manager

If you’ve just entered a management role, cultivating your relationship with the senior engineers on your team may be a daunting prospect. Here are a few ways to get that relationship off to a good start.

Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)

Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.

4 mental models for more effective engineering leadership

On our Leadership playlist

Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation

Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills

Content sponsored by Apollo

Elevating your leadership skills during tough times

What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?

Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation

Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams

Hywel carver

AI and tech leadership

Hywel Carver talks AI and tech leadership.

Content sponsored by Swarmia

Post-ZIRP engineering leadership

This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today’s environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.

November 4 & 5, 2024

The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.

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Top Leadership videos

  • Beyond the headlines Engineering leadership in 2024 talk by Scott Carey in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

    Beyond the headlines: Engineering leadership in 2024

    Discover insights from LeadDev’s 2024 Engineering Leadership report, exploring how 1,100 engineering leaders feel about navigating industry challenges amid tech layoffs and AI hype.

  • Sometimes you need to be a cruise director

    Some problems staff engineers face aren’t about technical expertise, but clarity and decision-making.

  • Scaling yourself by helping your colleagues grow

    In this talk, I will share different techniques that help you grow your colleagues to a level where they can do a part of your job. I will explain the difference between delegating, mentoring, and teaching, and demonstrate with examples how little effort it takes to turn your everyday tasks into teaching moments, improving your understanding of your own skills in the process.

  • Scaling leadership: Insights from the first Staff Technical Program Manager in the room

    This talk offers the perspective of a Staff Technical Program manager as the first one hired in a company, deconstructing the evolutionary journey that paved the way for hiring more of them.

  • Tips on scaling your leadership outside of your comfort zone

    In this talk Michael will talk through lessons and tips he’s learnt when working on a project that pushed him outside of his comfort zone, and how you can effectively utilise the skills and knowledge of those around you to build alignment when leading across a broad set of teams who are often using very different technologies.

  • Letting the Best Ideas Win

    In my talk I will explain that this is generally a pretty bad idea; it won’t surface the best ideas and it doesn’t let more junior engineers develop their skills. Instead, I introduce some steps you can take to make sure that the idea adopted to solve a problem is the best idea available, even if you aren’t the one who came up with it. Perhaps counter-intuitively I will show how this increases your influence in your organisation and sets everyone up for success.

  • Doing “the most important thing” is a trap.

    This talk is little about why you need to say No to people more, and how things can go wrong when you don’t learn to do it enough. 

  • Filling the Void: Operating as a Staff Engineer in a Leaderless Scope

    In this talk, we will detail our experiences as Staff Engineers functioning as Tech Leads, Glues and Facilitators in a leaderless role. We’ll discuss the real-world problems we faced, our solutions, and the lessons learned that allowed us to grow as leaders and as an organisation.