WELCOME
Registration & Refreshments
Welcome to LeadingEng West Coast 2023
Welcome to LeadingEng West Coast
A welcome to LeadingEng West Coast 2023 from the host Kathryn Koehler.
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You can go your own way: Owning your career design and making it real
No matter if you’re an ambitious go-getter or ambivalent about careers, experienced engineering executive-turned-leadership-coach and accidental career changer Lena Reinhard will help you get more clarity on building the career you want and how to make deliberate choices about what you optimize for.
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Sustaining Innovation with changing times: Adapting systems, teams, processes and yourself
This talk will look at two common themes - trust and adaptability - in systems, teams and process.
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Refreshments
Enjoy some refreshments during the break
The Many Shapes of a VP of Engineering
Emily will talk about different archetypes that are common for the VP of Engineering role, how to assess what type your organization needs, and how the role can evolve over time.
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Shadow work: How to reckon with structural influence in the middle of the org chart
This talk explores one of the most common contexts for that ambiguity: the structures and signals of power in your workplace.
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Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture
This talk will focus on how senior engineering leaders can build and promote a strong organizational culture.
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Lunch
We'll take a break for lunch
Healthy and Effective Leadership Teams
How can you set up the foundations for fostering healthier leadership teams?
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Crafting an effective technical strategy: Business success through targeted investment
Led by Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, this session dives deep into the realm of technical strategy. It explores why technical strategy matters, how to align it with business objectives, and how to measure the impact.
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Space aliens are among us, your product roadmap is realistic, and other lies you believe
In this talk, I'll help you establish focus, cut through metrics that don't matter, and sharpen your team's execution so that you can meet your business goals.
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Refreshments
Enjoy some refreshments during the break
Growing the next generation of leaders: Leveling up your leadership teams
Join this talk as Kathleen discusses how you can identify the skill gaps in your teams and support your managers as they transition to leadership.
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Strengthening company alignment
As a senior leader, you are often the in-between person who is matching the business needs, product execution and the team’s talent. That work requires you to communicate proficiently to ensure everyone understands the needs and the status of progress. In this talk, we’ll cover the basic communication paths to be successful as a senior engineering leader and dive into two of the most difficult parts of it: forward planning and driving accountability in your teams.
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Becoming an inspiring leader. Solve problems and motivate people.
In this talk, I'll share stories about how I moved from being a process-oriented leader to putting people over processes.
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CLOSE
Wrap-up
Closing session
NETWORK
Networking mixer
Network with our community
