group coaching

Most professionals limit their earning potential the moment they answer the recruiter's first question about target compensation.

Companies won't pay you what you deserve, they'll pay you what you negotiate. Getting this right can add over $1M in pre-tax career earnings while also increasing your perceived value among your colleagues.

In this session, I'll share how I regularly help clients maximize initial job offers then increase them by another 10-20% without using high pressure tactics that could burn bridges (or the offer itself).

Leadership is about people and startups are about growth. “Manager as coach” is fundamental to a new principle of learning, growing and retaining talent in dynamic organizations. Perhaps there was a time when managers were expected to have all the answers, to simply impart their wisdom to reports with critical performance feedback. But startups are change machines and old approaches to management don’t work. Great engineering leaders grow their people. They give support and guidance, understand how to give feedback and allow employees to learn how to adapt dynamically and realize their potential in a culture of learning. To be truly successful, managers must reinvent themselves as coaches whose job it is to draw energy, creativity, and learning out of the people with whom they work.

This is a hands on workshop with instruction, direct experience, practice and feedback. As much as we will cover techniques and tips, this workshop is for folks who want to build their emotional intelligence and are willing to actively participate and be vulnerable in a group of like-minded colleagues with a skilled and experienced facilitator guiding the process.

What kind of leader are you? Are you happy about the way you show up in your life? How do you handle conflicts? Do you feel fulfilled?

Many things can take over how we live our life. Old emotions, sickness, and a busy schedule, are just some examples as to why life can feel like a hamster wheel or out of our control. These reasons can take away all the excitement in life. In this session you will learn to re-assess yourself, gain awareness about patterns, and identify action steps necessary to become the leader and person that you want to be. Hop in - it’s time to take the driver seat!

How do the best leaders create resilient teams who thrive during change and stress? They know how to leverage conflict and use it to drive innovation and high performance. In this session Executive Coach and Organizational Development Consultant Michael Papanek will provide best practices from top tech leaders in Silicon Valley and around the world, sharing how they make decisions, build relationships, lead innovation and create positive culture change.

This session is not about Agile processes, such as Sprints and Scrums - this is about leading Agile teams which are Strong, Flexible and Fair.

Please bring your hardest and most difficult people issues to the coaching session for an in depth discussion of both established and emerging strategies for building unbreakable teams.

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Difficult Conversations are a fact of life, and work. In this session, we'll dig in to how to have them at the right time, and manage them to a productive conclusion.

Change Initiatives come in all sizes – from a small process change to the transformation of an entire company to Agile methodologies. In all cases, it takes walking a thin line to demonstrate early successes vs. falling into the pitfalls that create change fatigue. Common causes of change fatigue can include the over-designing or over-planning the changes, and mistakes in managing individual and organizational resistance. There are pathways to success.

In this session, I will share the insights I’ve gain from leading major change initiatives. I will share the top reasons change efforts fail and how to mitigate them. I will also be sharing my learnings from my experience as a leader and the Chief Architect of the Agile Transformation at PayPal.

I ask you to come prepared to talk through your specific change initiative challenges. Whether you are currently leading or participating in a change initiative today or will be in the future, take the opportunity in this coaching session to learn how best to operate a change initiative in real time.

Do you feel like you’re the one person who’s working the hardest in your organization, who's staying up the latest, and is the only one who's really accountable for "all of it"? Creating a culture of accountability and speed is hard when we're face to face - and the complexity increases when we're remote. Learn simple, practical tools to stop rescuing your team and start holding them accountable in a way that feels good for everyone. Increase throughput and decrease the waste and frustration that's built into all organizations. Hear from your peers and leave with a list of actions you can put into practice right away.

Complexity is the name of the game now. All of us live in a world that's Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. To scale, we can’t just work harder, longer; be smarter or make more people happy. Many of us are running on leadership habits that were formed earlier in our careers - and now are strained to the max. It's possible to thrive and outcompete in complexity. Come learn the top five things you can do to level up your leadership for the future and avoid the pitfalls that affect all leaders in complex times.

Do you report to a non-engineering leader, such as a CEO or COO, or have a goal to become a technology executive? Or do you feel that sometimes engineering is not understood by non-technical leaders in your organization? Reporting and managing up to a non-technical leader requires different skills than reporting to an engineering leader. As a former CTO and CEO, I’ve coached hundreds of engineering leaders to evolve into a true technology executive who can successfully lead an engineering organization and manage up to a CEO, COO, etc. This coaching session is for any Dir, VP, CTO, or other aspiring engineering leaders with a goal to lead larger engineering organizations and become part of the conversation at an executive level. Learn the important skills to build a successful relationship with CEOs, COOs, or other executives and bring your own engineering leadership challenges to this coaching session.

Presenting "up" -- to your CEO, executive team, or Board - is often a high-stakes proposition, with one chance to get it right. There are easy ways to make it go more smoothly and to increase the chance of getting your desired outcome. In this interactive session, Spencer will invite two volunteers each to deliver a real executive-facing presentation, critiqued by the rest of the attendees. We've found this format is more engaging than a lecture; and, since most presentations have the same problems, the most important lessons end up getting covered :).

The VC presentation is a unique animal. The audience is typically "cold" (meaning they don't know you), and they can also be - dare I say - a bit jaded. The first few minutes of your pitch are critical in attracting the audience's interest and influencing their emotion. In this interactive session, Spencer will invite several volunteers each to deliver a real VC-facing presentation, critiqued by the rest of the attendees. We've found this format is more engaging than a lecture; and, since most presentations have the same problems, the most important lessons end up getting covered :).

Teams are complicated groups of people with numerous pushes and pulls. Let’s talk about the power and dysfunctions of teams and how, as a tech leader, you can change the dynamic to achieve higher performance. Boost your collective productivity by building agile, accountable and aligned team(s). We will discuss: Lencioni’s concept of “trust”, a team (organizational) resiliency model, the role of the leader and team member, a model for accountability, agile performance management systems, and related topics.