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How to begin your journey to effective leadership
Principles, processes, and tips for being the best manager you can be.
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Motivating your team when promotions are frozenÂ
Keeping motivation high during a period of uncertainty can be difficult. Here’s how to turn it around.
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Need-to-know tactics for managing up successfully
Managing up can be difficult – even more so when you have a distant leader. Here’s how to make the best out of the situation.
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Build an AI strategy without falling for the hype
Learn how to build a pragmatic AI strategy without chasing hype-driven distractions.
Editor’s picks
How to lead individuals with advanced technical expertise
If you’re a manager of individual contributor’s who have more years of experience on you, you may be confused on how best to lead them.
How can I rebuild a struggling team’s confidence and trust?
When there’s friction in the team you’re managing, morale, performance, and trust all take a hit. How can you rectify the situation?
How to lead senior engineers as a new manager
If you’ve just entered a management role, cultivating your relationship with the senior engineers on your team may be a daunting prospect. Here are a few ways to get that relationship off to a good start.
November 3 & 4, 2025
LeadDev Berlin agenda is live! 🙌
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Leadership playlist
What we talk about when we talk about leadership
Exploring key leadership themes from years in tech, this talk offers guidance and practical strategies to help engineers become the leaders they want to be.
From engineer to executive: Leading the shift and inspiring business-minded tech teams
Explore the journey from engineering leader to CTO, with insights on bridging technology and business strategy, leading with influence, and fostering business-minded tech teams.
Elevating your leadership skills during tough times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?
Post-ZIRP engineering leadership
This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today’s environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.
The conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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How do Netflix, Nubank, and Airbrake achieve engineering success?
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How to lead when you’re going through a personal crisis
The power of vulnerability, authenticity, and hope
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Supporting, influencing, and leading as a security practitioner
How security folks can lead engineering teams from the sidelines
Top Leadership videos
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Pleasing everyone, except yourself: Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies to become a stronger engineering leader
Nikita Rathi talks about her ongoing journey towards recognising the different patterns of people pleasing that she tends to fall into, like countless other folks, and how it impacts her work as an engineering leader.
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Leading a distributed team out of a war zone: Lessons in resilience and adaptability
Bohdan Kit shares his management experience and insights from leading a team of eight senior engineers.
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There and back again: A journey of complexity
Tristan Heal presents his journey in helping my company successfully modularise its frontend codebase, that started off being single product single platform to multiple products spanning multiple tech stacks across web, mobile and TV platforms today.
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Building bridges beyond the screen: Cracking the code of remote team-building
In this talk, Marina Planells Guasch will share her experiences and provide resources that have worked for her, as well as discuss the failures and difficulties she encountered while attempting to foster team spirit in a remote environment.
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Pragmatic data organization leadership
In this talk, Olalekan Elesin looks at how a data team was led through a difficult reorganization to deliver company-wide impact and customer value.
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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.