Over the last decade, Leszek has developed several successful businesses, among them a software development agency that supports Fortune 500 companies. With the challenges a growing business brings, he observed that stepping out of a tech role into a leadership one brings the need for a different approach. As a host of the Better Tech Leadership podcast, Leszek is focused on bridging the gap between tech and people skills.
Francisco Trindade is an experienced engineering leader with a background as a technology consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he assisted teams worldwide and have founded companies, led engineering organizations. Currently serves as an Engineering Director at Braze in New York, focusing on enhancing engineering collaboration.
In this episode, Leszek and Marc Furrer discuss collaborative environments over traditional hierarchical structures, Marc has researched companies practicing self-organization, particularly holacracy. Marc emphasizes the benefits of self-organization in fostering innovation and empowerment but also discusses challenges in making lifestyle changes and the role of coaching in personal and organizational transformation.
Matt Warcholinski delves into an innovative hybrid work models, balancing sales and product management, funding significance, and the importance of human-centric leadership in startups with Dennis Teichmann, Startup Investor and Advisor.
Matt Warcholinski engages with Ian Forrester, Senior "Firestarter" at BBC, discussing innovation and adaptive media technologies, emphasizing public service in tech, offering practical remote work advice through the "personal user manual" concept, and sharing influential books and podcasts on the multifaceted role of technology in society.
Matt Warcholinski explores DevOps philosophy, human-centric tech leadership, the purposeful use of technology, the uncertain future of tech, and recommends a valuable resource with Jan Hegewald, a software product development leader at DevNetwork and SumUp.