What's New with Heidi - November 2023
Hello everyone. It’s nearly the end of the year! Hard to believe. Here’s an update on what I have going on.
I had a great time in London at CTO Craft. I gave a talk on Dynamic Reteaming to a wonderfully inquisitive audience. People asked so many questions and chatted with me before and after the talk. It always encourages and inspires me when I break through in some way…when I tap into that corner of curiosity in someone’s brain with what I’m passionate about… which is in helping teams and organizations change.
I’m heading to Berlin on Friday to give a talk at LeadingEng. The title of my talk is Built to Flex: Strengthen Your Org to Expect Change. If you’re in Berlin, reach out. The last time I was in Berlin was pre pandemic, so I’m glad to be going back.
In other news, earlier this year I taught an online, public course on Dynamic Reteaming. I’m revising that to make it even more valuable, and I’ve started recording a series of videos to go with the course. I’d love to pick your brains via this Dynamic Reteaming online workshop survey. That’s a form with a few questions on what you think would make a valuable course for me to offer to you or your colleagues. It’ll also put you on my mailing list to stay in the loop on that course and when it will be held. If you feel so inclined, please fill out the form. I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
My second book, currently titled Context Switch, the senior tech leader’s guide to collaboration and focus is still underway. Not gonna lie, the last mile of this is taking longer than expected, likely because I’ve context switched over to working on that Dynamic Reteaming course. But nevertheless I persist. I’m still interviewing senior leaders in engineering, product and design. I have 40 more interviews to go to hit my goal of 100 interviews! VP and C-Level folks that want to be interviewed, can contact me to book an interview. If you know of someone that I can reach out to for an interview, I’d love the recommendation.
In January I’ll be heading to Tokyo to keynote the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo. That will be my first time in Japan and I’m delighted to be heading there, as it’s a dream of mine to go to Japan.
How I can help you - reach out via email to find out more.
Right now I’m consulting under my own company, Dynamic Reteaming. I work on a retainer basis. That means I can spend a number of hours with you or your teams each month for a flat fee.
Looking for a team of senior engineers? I partner with a few companies that can make that happen, and that could even include me as part of the team. Reach out to learn more.
I’m also giving workshops in person, inside companies. This gets you not only an overview of Dynamic Reteaming, but also enables more attention on the specific challenges within your company. I’m running one next week!
I’m booking speaking events and podcast interviews for 2024. Reach out to get on my calendar.
Have a great rest of the week and thanks for reading my newsletter.