Adventure beyond the keyboard: Growth strategies for senior leaders
When you're at the top, getting direct feedback gets tougher and figuring out how to improve becomes a bit of a puzzle. This talk is your guide to cracking that puzzle, and make leadership growth less of a mystery and more of an adventure!
Building products is a team sport: Cultivating effective engineering-product partnerships
With new AI developments happening almost every day, team roadmaps evolve fast to adapt to the product and business needs; this requires a close partnership between engineering and product leaders.
The path from Director to CTO: How to follow it, or how to mentor it
This talk is aimed at both aspiring Chief Technology Officers and those who are in a position to mentor future CTOs. Explore the journey from a Director of Engineering role to a CTO, focusing on the skills and experiences needed for this transition and how experienced leaders can guide others on this path.
Leading with policy, consensus, and conviction: Three distinct leadership styles for effective engineering leadership
Will came into leadership with one finely honed leadership style, and routinely stepped on his own foot using that style for every situation. In this talk, Will shares the situations that exposed his limited toolkit of leadership styles, the new styles he has added, and how he got comfortable using them.
Post-ZIRP engineering leadership
The landscape of technology leadership has shifted dramatically in recent years, challenging even the most seasoned engineering leaders to adapt. This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today's environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.
Budgeting: Your (unexpected) opportunity to be a hero
As you advance your career as an engineering leader, managing a budget becomes a highly critical part of your job. However, we were not taught how to do this in school or our previous roles at less senior levels. I will share some stories to cover three main scenarios and how to overcome these challenges.