Lena
Reinhard
Engineering Leadership & Executive Coach
08:30
1h
WELCOME
Registration and refreshments
Welcome to LeadingEng Berlin 2023
09:20
Welcome to LeadingEng Berlin
A welcome to LeadingEng Berlin 2023 from the host Lena Reinhard.
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9:45
Decision making - The first 5000 years
Mathias Meyer talks about what ingredients you need in place for your decision-making to flow without you really having to do anything, with just a dash of laziness and looking towards what the future might behold, both good and bad (and neutral).
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10:15
Career vectors - CTO flavours: Mixing & matching skillsets
In this talk, experienced CTO Meri Williams will help you explore the different flavours of competencies & capabilities for CTOs, how to develop in each, and how to mix & match.
Featuring:
11:10
30 min
BREAK
Refreshments
Enjoy some refreshments during the break
11:52
Built to flex - Strengthen your org to expect change
In this talk, Heidi Helfand shares some practical tactics on how to look at your teams today, and grow them into a stronger org that can bend and flex with challenges instead of crumble.
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12:14
Intentional influence
Learn how to create positive change in your work environment and gain buy-in from people in power, your direct reports, and cross-functional leaders.
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13:06
Influencing your company’s culture from the driver’s seat
Sarah Abrantes talks about how to uncover the real culture at your company and how you can make a genuine lasting impact on it.
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13:23
60 mins
BREAK
Lunch
We'll take a break for lunch
14:40
Building the operating system of a healthy and responsible tech business
This talk will cover how you can tackle common challenges tech companies face by aligning your strategy, execution and people more systematically.
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15:22
Unlocking lean efficiency: Turning knobs where it matters in tech leadership
Joyce Chen dives into the critical concepts that empower leaders to drive pace and build highly effective engineering teams when expanding the headcount isn't always an option.
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15:45
Leading through AI-powered complexity: Balancing business priorities, innovation and resources
João Freiras discusses how leaders are automating through complexity and finding the right balance between the pressure to innovate, business priorities, resources, and the promise of AI business value.
Featuring:
16:05
30 min
BREAK
Refreshments
Enjoy some refreshments during the break
16:38
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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17:20
Upskilling leadership teams
Vitor Reis dives into strategies on how to grow the next generation of leaders in your organization so you can build a stronger foundation for driving the long-term success of your business.
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17:42
I've got the power: Career growth, today and beyond
Lena Reinhard will help you not just celebrate and reflect on what you learned on this day full of practical advice from experienced leaders: She will also make space for you to operationalize turning these lessons into actions.
Featuring:
17:52
10 min
CLOSE
Wrap-up
Closing session
18:00
90 min
NETWORK
Networking mixer
Join us for the networking drinks reception
19:30
Close
End of event