Category: Guests

Lisette Sutherland is a remote-working, German-born, Dutch-American living in the Netherlands – jazzed by the fact that working from anywhere is possible. She authored the Work Together Anywhere Handbook, hosts a regular podcast featuring interviews with remote-working experts, and facilitates workshops on remote working topics like hybrid working, better online meetings, and virtual leadership. She has given presentations at various…

Anne Caron is a seasoned People Strategy consultant with a specialization in aiding rapidly expanding startups. Her expertise lies in constructing high-performing, scalable organizations. With a decade of invaluable experience at Google, Anne collaborates intimately with founders, assisting them in articulating their company’s culture, establishing the HR function, and crafting a robust performance management framework.…

Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter which is being translated into several languages including Chinese and Japanese. She is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government…

Jérôme Bourgeon is a long-time avid learner. A french man based in Singapore, Jérôme is a facilitator, experience designer, and coach at Zenika, a digital transformation consulting company. He is also a renowned Magician and a Divemaster with a big heart and sense of humour. He will certainly put a smile on your face while…

Hi, I’m Michael, a Leadership Coach and Digital Marketer. For more than 15 years I’ve worked shoulder-to-shoulder with software engineers from around the globe. I’ve seen first hand how developing your professional leadership in software engineering is definitely not the same thing as developing your technical leadership. Technical leadership requires you to continuously “sharpen the…

Experienced, certified professional coach to mid-career leaders in software and finance. I love helping professionals who know they aren’t living up to their true potential (or being aren’t being recognized for it) do something about it. We examine what’s holding you back, how you get in the way, and most importantly, what you really want.…

For the past 25 years, I’ve been involved in the Free Software movement and ecosystem. I’ve been lucky to contribute to a large panel of 100+ open-source projects, to send code to Mars, and to build large scalable systems from scratch. Being entrepreneurial-minded, I’ve also run non-profit organizations, built my own consulting agency, written books,…

Bart den Haak is an authority on Objectives and Key Results in Europe. He has more than 10 years’ experience of applying OKRs and training professionals on their usage. As an international speaker, he inspires people to start using the OKR goal setting technique that has changed the course of many tech giants like Google,…

Jason McKerr is the VP of Engineering, Americas at Pendo. He was previously VP, Engineering SRE/Cloud Services at Red Hat. Previously, he was VP, Engineering, Ansible, Management and Automation. Jason has been in the space before as the VP of Engineering for Puppet. Before Puppet, he worked as a software architect and manager at SocialCode…

French and Canadian citizen; I work for Red Hat (which is part of IBM) in the OpenStack Engineering organization. My primary focus is the deployment of OpenShift, Red Hat’s Kubernetes distro, where I help to run it on top of OpenStack clouds, one of the biggest Open-Source projects in charge of Infrastructure-As-A-Service. After spending 10…

Senior Manager, Software Engineering @ Red Hat Highly motivated software Professional and team lead with experience in Project Management, Quality Assurance and Software Development. Passionate about software quality by advocating for customer needs. Rich experience working with Open Source projects and upstream communities. Highly passionate about Diversity, Inclusion and actively participate in outreach activities. Strong…

A coach, facilitator, consultant, psychotherapeutic counsellor and international speaker on business agility with 30 years experience in strategy, leadership, management, delivery and education in the public and private sectors. Appears on Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership episode Recommended the books Stay in Touch! https://www.linkedin.com/in/geofellingham/