The Science Behind High Performance Teams
Summary
We have all read books and articles about how other companies build high-performance teams. But as a leader at any level in your organization, while those articles sound good, what is the science behind building high-performance teams? Is there any science or just pure luck? Can you repeat it consistently and if so, how?
In this talk, we will look at PRISM - a science-backed framework for helping people thrive in their workplace. Developed by the world-renowned psychologist Marty Seligman and CPO of BetterUp, Gabriella Kellerman, it offers us a well-tested way to build and invest in our current world of remote-first engineering teams by breaking leadership down to 5 core ideas you need to pay attention to.
Speakers
Amol Kher is a VP of Engineering at BetterUp where he oversees product engineering teams to deliver human transformation at scale. Prior to BetterUp, Amol held roles at StitchFix, Vida Health, and Life360. At Life360, he helped the company to an IPO by helping expand the market by delivering new products and scaling the technology to handle 5x growth. Amol started his career learning software development and quality at larger companies like Microsoft, Google, and Netflix but eventually joined a pre-seed startup, Wello as a CTO and helped build a product that was acquired by WeightWatchers. Amol is passionate about building products that help people flourish. He has an MS in Computer Science from the University of Missouri.
