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ELC Annual 2020

Collaboration

Team Building

Leadership

Culture

Management

Recruiting

Communication

Org Design

Career

Hiring

Distributed Teams

Change Management

Scaling

Diversity & Inclusion

Decision Making

Influence

Team Organization

Cross-Functional Teams

Prioritization

Going from 0 to 60 - Building Lyft’s Self-Driving Car Team

Managing Creative Teams

From Awkward to Agonizing - Mastering Difficult Conversations

From One to Zero: Going Smaller as a Growth Strategy

Career Transitions and Transformations

Technology, Leadership, Opportunity – A Fireside Chat with Max Levchin

The Role of Engineering Leaders in Recruiting

Scaling Technological Influence at Slack

Transitioning from Engineering Leadership to Product Leadership

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path To Building Massively Valuable Companies

Managing in an Agile World

Ryan Graciano, Co-Founder & CTO @ Credit Karma, shares with us what it’s like to start a company during an economic downturn, how his leadership style had to evolve alongside Credit Karma’s growth, advice for running lean operations, bridging the gap between engineering & business, how to scale the business as the company matures, and identifying & correcting team/org dysfunctions. In addition, Ryan shares some of his favorite successful & failed leadership experiments that helped evolve his leadership style!

Leading through an economic downturn & bridging the gap between engineering & business

Our career path as eng leaders can be nonlinear and present many unexpected twists, turns, and opportunities. This session with Zhichun Li and Jerry Li explores the career leap from engineering to business leadership. They’ll cover principles to navigating career decisions, translating engineering experience to ops/business, building a business unit from the ground up, and pitching ideas to executive leadership.

From Engineer to General Manager in 3 years

Wade Chambers discusses how to learn anything by applying “conscious growth” and neuroplasticity to your career. You’ll learn how to get unstuck, and move your career forward. Plus Wade also shares stories about his early failures as an engineering manager, and what he wished he knew when he first became a manager. 

Conscious Career Growth (part 1)

We discuss operational & organizational innovation with Zhichun Li (Director of Engineering @ Scale AI)! We explore the early days of Rapid at Scale AI, different organizational design experiments Zhi’s tested, and many of the principles behind their operational practices. You’ll hear about merging engineering & ops, designing orgs for autonomy, scaling into multiple products, and leveraging different org structures for innovation.

Operational & Organizational Innovation

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