Individual contributors often seek ways to grow but don’t have access to opportunities that might stretch their skills.
That’s where you, with your birds-eye view, come in! Sponsorship is an important part of growing the people on your team.
Catt Small will walk you through the difference between sponsorship and mentorship. You’ll learn strategies to move from an advisor to an investor in your reports’ careers.
While the specifics of the job can vary widely, Will Larson has famously categorized the Staff+ experience into four archetypes: Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, and the Right Hand.
n this talk, Mitra Raman will take a look at the many paths that engineers can take on their leadership journey.
The more we move up the org chart, the less input we'll get from our own managers, and the more we need to expand our range as a leader to be successful.
Discover how lessons from open source software maintenance shape effective staff engineers. This talk explores key insights on scaling, influence, and collaboration learned from OSS projects.
