I believe great leaders aren't born, they're grown. After many years growing a high-performance engineering organisation and building a progressive culture with high staff engagement โ I've learned that the best solutions often come from within organisations rather than applying models, frameworks, or techniques developed elsewhere. You can hire me to coach, mentor, and guide, helping you grow your leadership capabilities and your teams' performance.
Developing a Leadership Framework for Emerging Leaders
Over the last year, I have had the opportunity to create and roll-out a leadership framework across my organisation, aimed at supporting career development of our emerging leaders, accelerate their capabilities, and ensure a scalable approach to leadership that aligns with the company's unique values and goals.
Evolving Reteaming: A Dynamic & Human Approach to Team Change
How Redgate have adapted their approach to reteaming - the process they use to shape their teams in response to Redgateโs strategic aims for the coming year - to be more dynamic and efficient, and retained the good stuff.
Unlocking Team Superpowers: Cognitive Diversity and Psychological Safety
Embracing cognitive diversity and nurturing psychological safety is vital in creating collaborative, successful, and innovative teams.
How Redgate ran it’s first team self-selection process
This post explains in detail exactly how Redgate ran it's first formal team self-selection process, from initial planning to completion.
Team self-selection (without the anxiety)
Are you attracted to the idea of allowing people to decide for themselves what they work on, but worried about what might happen as a result? Yep, we were too. Here's how we kept true to the ideals of self-determination but reduced our collective anxiety about the process.
Agile for the people
When people talk about why they adopt an agile approach to software development, they talk about the many benefits of delivering working software iteratively. Rarely do I hear people call out the key reason why we should be taking an agile approach; it's part of the answer to giving people fulfilling and rewarding work.
Do your team know why you lead how you lead?
While understanding the "Why" behind a task or action is important, understanding the "Why" behind someoneโs approach to leadership can be transformative.
Improving Levelย Up, Redgate’s internal development conference
How Redgate has learnt from our first ever internal product development conference to make this year's event, Level Up 2019, even better.
Why I lead how I lead
While understanding the "Why" behind a task or action is important, understanding the "Why" behind someoneโs approach to leadership can be transformative. In this post, I share my Whys behind how I lead and what I do.