Engineering leadership can feel like a lonely journey filled with painful challenges. But the truth is you’re not alone! We’re creating a place for local engineering leaders to come together, share challenges, gain outside perspectives, and become better leaders.

Join us for light bites and drinks to help shape the future of engineering leadership in Chicago for our local chapter meetup!

We're delighted to welcome Mike Esler, CTO @ Bloom Credit, who will be sharing invaluable insights on the importance of coherence and congruence in an engineering organization. Engineering leadership needs clear direction and alignment for a company to succeed. Reading expert advice can help, but it's not always easy to put into action. The Star Model offers a helpful idea: strategy, tools, people, rewards, and processes are all linked and need to work together to move the company forward. This big-picture thinking is often missed when adding new tools or growing the company. Understanding and supporting these interdependencies is key to sustainable growth and success, especially when a small team gets bigger. We will then break out into roundtable discussions to discuss further on this topic.