SimpleLeadership Podcast

In this episode we discuss having hard conversations, overcoming fear to grow as a technology leader and humanizing the interviewing process. Emily Leathers helps leaders, teams, and communities achieve big goals that make a difference. She’s lucky enough to hold two dream jobs at the same time: as a Director of Engineering at a small startup called Brigade, where she builds web and native apps to help voters make our elected representatives actually work for us, and as an engineering leadership coach and consultant, where she helps engineering leaders at all levels develop the skills, self-awareness, and vision they need to build high-performing, thriving teams. Contact Info: Website / blog: >greatenough.me Twitter: @eleather Show Notes: Manager Tools Podcast Coaching for Leaders Podcast The Look and Sound of Leadership Podcast Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) Engineering Leadership Slack

Matias Woloski is the CTO and co-founder of Auth0, an identity platform that provides authentication, authorization and single-sign-on as a service. Auth0 was founded in 2013 and it has now 300 employees and it’s a fully distributed company. Since 2013, Auth0 has tripled and doubled its revenue every year, counting with more than two thousand customers and tens of millions in recurring revenue. Before Auth0, he co-founded a high-end consulting business that employed 120 consultants. Matias lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and he’s built the company from there with co-founder and CEO Eugenio Pace, who lives in Redmond, Washington. In this episode we discuss scaling engineering teams, hiring a VP of Engineering and. Contact Info: twitter.com/woloski auth0.com Show Notes: randsinrepose.com - michael lopp blog. it's almost like a reference book :) https://www.archanar.com/ unstoppable women - podcast of women in leadership https://mastersofscale.com/ masters of scale podcast: it touches on leadership but it's broader in scope.   Spotify Squad Framework: https://medium.com/project-management-learnings/spotify-squad-framework-part-i-8f74bcfcd761   good article on scaling eng teams: https://medium.com/@AntiFreeze/scaling-engineering-teams-3b2500c061f6   books Leadership Pipeline https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-Company/dp/0470894563   managing humans michael lopp blog in a book https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484221575/ref=sspa_dk_detail_5?psc=1&pd_rd_i=1484221575&pd_rd_wg=AaArd&pd_rd_r=C3QJKZYPW5H6PS7P250D&pd_rd_w=uQddL   these classics were important in the beginning of my career, when I was 20ish https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996 e-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519&source=gmail&ust=1519598127387000&usg=AFQjCNE6ACjb0eOKfg7QzKiKX_lnFqB3bg">https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519   Masters of Scale Podcast with Reid Hoffman   Good to Great   The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People     Civilization Game 

Edmond Lau is the author of the book, The Effective Engineer — now the de facto onboarding guide for many engineering teams. He's spent the past decade building and leading engineering teams at high-growth companies across Silicon Valley — including at Quip, Quora, Ooyala, and Google. As an engineering leadership coach, Edmond has worked directly with CTO's, directors, managers, and other emerging leaders to unlock what's possible for them and their teams. He's run workshops and seminars at places like Pinterest, Google, Facebook, Quip, and Medium to raise the bar on what it means to be an effective engineering leader. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Time, Slate, Inc., Fortune, and Wired. Edmond recently embarked on a new adventure with engineering-manager-turned-coach Jean Hsu to build the best leadership development brand out there for engineers and people in tech. They'll be taking the most valuable lessons they've learned from coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, engineering VPs, and CTOs — and distilling them into simple frameworks, powerful workshops, and online experiences. Follow the journey at coleadership.com, where they'll be sharing everything they're learning. On today's episode we discuss how to be an effective engineering leader, frameworks for improving your management skills and coaching for success. Links Website: effectiveengineer.com / coleadership.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/edmondlau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/effectiveengineer/ Show Notes The Effective Engineer Software Lead Weekly The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change High Output Management POWERFUL CONVERSATIONS FOR LEADERS IN TECH

On today's episode we discuss product & engineering team alignment, deadlines and urgency and ideas for helping under representated groups becoming technology leaders. Kimber Lockhart is Chief Technology Officer at One Medical Group – a rapidly growing model of primary care that integrates innovative design with leading technology to deliver higher quality service while lowering the total cost of care.  Previously, Kimber co-founded Increo, a web-based service that allows users to share and review documents in a secure space. Increo was acquired by Box in 2009, and she hired and scaled the web application engineering team over the next four years, ultimately responsible for building most user-facing features on Box.  Kimber speaks frequently on technology, heath care, and engineering careers in San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Stuart Parmenter is VP of Engineering at One Medical – a rapidly growing model of primary care that integrates innovative design with leading technology to deliver higher quality service while lowering the total cost of care. Previously, Stuart co-founded Rise, a mobile app for dieting and health, that aims to connect users with their own personalized diet plans and daily feedback from nutrition coaches for a fraction of the usual cost. Rise was acquired by One Medical in 2016. Before Rise, Stuart was running Mobile at Mozilla.   Contact Info: Website: onemedical.com       LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartparmenter https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlockhart     Twitter: @kimber_lockhart stuartparmenter     Medium: https://medium.com/@kimber_lockhart   Show Notes:   Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. Under the hood: Calibrating technical teams with a simple shift The 12 Elements of Great Managing Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter How F*cked Up Is Your Management?: An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership

Andrew Marsh, CTO and co-founder of Interviewing.io talks about the poor state of interviewing process in today's tech companies, how to improve them and his company, Interviewing.io Andrew Marsh is co-founder and CTO of Interviewing.io A product designer and software engineer, he previously founded Fifth Column Games and has shipped titles with over 100 million users. Andrew ultimately left games in search of an industry where making a positive impact on the community was more aligned with success. Contact Information: My company website is Interviewing.io My twitter is @andimusprime Company Twitter is @interviewingio

On today's show Lawrence and I discuss why group meetings can be such time wasters, the importance of one-one-ones and lawrence's book. Over the last 18 years, Lawrence Krubner  has been the technical co-founder of 3 different startups that he has led to success. He has also seen millions of dollars wasted on poorly run projects that he have had to turn around and save. Turning around a failing project can go smoothly, so long as everyone on the team can be completely honest about why a project was failing up to that point. He is a proponent of the "train fast, fire fast, fail fast, iterate fast" philosophy -- a team should improve itself as much as possible, through training or replacement, and thereby maximize the speed with which it delivers products. Contact Info: http://www.smashcompany.com/ Show Notes: One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time I Done This Why Can't They Just by Lara Hogan how to destroy a tech startup in 3 easy steps Peter Drucker Peter Drucker Books on Amazon Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's Ship It!

Juan Pablo Buritica, VP of Engineering at splice.com, talks about building and managing a distributed team and the benefits of running developer communities. Juan Pablo Buritica is the VP of Engineering at splice.com where he leads a distributed engineering team throughout the US and Latin America that is building the creative hub for the modern musician. Juan Pablo has built effective software engineering organizations by emphasizing Open Source software values, technical excellence, trust, and empathy. He has organized more than 10 software engineering conferences in the US & Latin-America, founded multiple JavaScript meetups, and led the growth of Colombia’s JavaScript community, the largest Spanish-speaking JS community in the world with more than 7,000 members. Contact Information: https://buriti.ca https://splice.com Github Twitter @buritica Show Notes: Slack Clubhouse Project Management When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron NEW(-ISH) ENG-MANAGERS SLACK The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win  

Ben Jackson, formally of VICE Media and The NYT, talks about the importance of employee onboarding and his new company For the Win. Ben Jackson has been designing and building consumer-facing products for 20 years. Before founding For the Win, Ben worked as Director of Mobile at VICE Media and iOS Lead at The New York Times. He’s written about design, technology, and psychology for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and WIRED, among others. Ben studied Computer Science and Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. In today's episode we discuss the importance of employee onboarding, Ben's new company, "For the Win," his Slackbot and "Harold and the Purple Crayon."   Contact Links: LinkedIn Twitter https://ftw.nyc/ https://twitter.com/ftwnyc https://instagr.am/ftwdotnyc https://fb.me/ftwnyc http://meetup.com/ftwnyc Show Notes: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done The First Time Manager The Effective Manager Manager Tools Podcast Team of Teams  Practical Service Design

Robert Slifka, VP of Engineering at Sharethrough, talks about Calibrate, the conference for software engineering managers he organizes, the importance of finding good fit for both employees and companies and having a more fulfilling work experience.

Arquay Harris, Director of Engineering at Slack, and I discuss the importance of self advocacy and taking ownership of your career path.