Let’s discuss how I can make your event a success.
I’m available to speak or deliver a workshop at your next corporate event, special function, or for any audience in tech who needs a little inspiration on building teams who can focus on shipping great things.
I draw on my own experience as an astrophysicist, startup data scientist, executive leader, and engineering fellow to share ideas on working brilliantly together.
Speaking Topics
Making Brilliant People Work Brilliantly Together
Systematic approaches to team chemistry and collaboration. Why feedback is a valid expression of how someone feels, not what you should do—and what to do with that information instead.
WHEN YOU CAN’t STOP The Train FROM CRASHING
How to influence organizational change when you see the problems but can’t get anyone to listen. Real stories from real companies… and why OKRs don’t actually solve the problems they promise to fix.
Shift from Individual Contributor to Team Architect
The mindset shift technical leaders need to scale their impact. How a simple conversation with a CEO about shipping speed vs. quality (“We can ship with fewer issues, but we will slow down. Where on the scale do you want us to be?”) changed everything, and why most technical leaders never learn to have these conversations.
ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS FOR High-Agency Team Design
Approaches to building teams that think and act like owners, not just follow instructions.
How to Screw Up a Redundancy
Horror stories of botched layoffs and what leaders can learn from these disasters.
How to Work with Sales
Why sales people seem selfish (they’re incentivized to be), why dev teams clash with them (fundamentally different motives), and how to bridge the gap.
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