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Refactoring Trust on Your Team – CTO Summit NYC 2018

I was thrilled to be back at the CTO Summit in NYC this year! I was also excited to expand my Trust & Teams talk to full-length and to get to talk directly to managers.

Becoming an Engineering Leader Panel at RailsConf 2017

This is where my thoughts and passion lie right now and I was incredibly excited to have this panel accepted at RailsConf. I was even more excited to have such an amazing, diverse, thoughtful group of panelists in Abel Martin, Neha Batra, and Shay Howe. Are you a new manager? Have you been asked to lead a project? Do you want to see change in your company but ...

Thoughts on team tension

We all want to work in a collaborative, open, communicative environment, right? Ok. Maybe not all of you. But at the very least, you don't want to work with people you dislike, have totally different values and ideas than you and you disagree with often. In others word, you don't want to have tension with your team. Right? (more…)

Being tough vs. being clear

"If I knew that, I wouldn't have …" The moment a company, manager, or leader hears these words their instinct is to create a policy or document or thing that clarifies the expectation. At least that's the goal. What often happens is that they add tough language ("You will be terminated if you do X") in an effort to make sure everyone knows what will ...

The power of appreciation

One of the reasons I was attracted to teaching was the acknowledgement and appreciation I (might) get as a teacher. Being a woman in tech is hard. The ignoring and lack of acknowledgement adds up. I was burned out and angry. (Still am to some degree). The statistic that 56% of women leave tech after 10 years kept running through my head — 2014 is my 11th ...