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Thinking the Unthinkable

Featuring Chris Langdon and Nik Gowing

This is a time of deep uncertainty, whatever your business and its size. Leaders are struggling to grasp and understand the enormity of change. A significant number have confirmed confidentially to us that they are scared and overwhelmed.

Unleash Your Play Brain: Play Your Way Towards a Happier Adulthood

Featuring Portia Tung

Have you lost your mojo or got bored with life? Are you stuck in a rut and can’t quite figure out how to get out of it? Does work keep getting in the way of your dreams? Have you reached a crossroads and don’t know which way to go?

Using Agile Techniques to lead your startup and Scale-up your Company

Featuring Iyas Alqasem

Leading a business can feel really far removed from the skills we use in a project or development environment. But are there ways in which those of us who have come from technology are at an advantage when it comes to building out a company?

In this talk, Iyas, who has led technology companies...

5 Mistakes Made in Agile Transformations

Featuring Antony Marcano

Agile Transformations are a challenging, and sometimes, delicate endeavour. There are numerous ways to succeed and many more ways to fail. In this talk, Antony Marcano shares 5 of the most common mistakes he's experienced over nearly 20 years as part of, or leading, Agile Transformations.

Decision-Making for Grown-Ups

Featuring Elizabeth Keogh

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Sprinting In Place: The Cost of Missing Leadership Conversations

Featuring Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel

Are you missing the promised benefits of Agile? Douglas and Jeffrey believe that the biggest key to improved performance has been holding effective conversations on difficult topics like Trust, Fear, Why, Commitment and Accountability. Failure to have these conversations can lead to a wide range...

What's a Leader's most Vital Skill? (It might not be what you think!)

Featuring Elizabeth Varley

Can you be innovative in more than just your technology? In the world of startups, as well as the products they want to see in the world, entrepreneurs create new work environments every time they negotiate with their first employee.

Culture, Code and Karaoke : Analogue Leadership in a Digital Age

Featuring Dylan Beattie

In modern software development, we are spoilt for choice with job titles. Leaders. Experts. Managers. Mentors. Analysts. Seniors, architects, product owners, tech leads, founders, executives...

In this talk Dylan uncovers the differences between experience and expertise, what seniority really...

Successful, Accomplished, Depressed - About Performance, Perfectionism, and Burnout in IT

Featuring Dennis Traub

More than two decades of working in IT had taken Dennis to his physical limits. His collapse came unexpected but, in reality, he could easily have seen it coming. It also was about time though! That way, Dennis was able to realize that he had failed to look after himself for the most part of his...

I Gave You a Pool Table, Why Are You Still Stressed?

Featuring Zoe Cunningham

Zoe Cunningham talks through the cultural evolution at Softwire, since the creation of the company 18 years ago. When Softwire started in 2000 the foundation of inclusive decision making and transparency, with a focus on employee welfare, seemed to be all that was needed for a happy, healthy...