Thanks for welcoming me to beautifully cool Edinburgh, Turing Fest! Below are the slides and links to the books, talks, etc mentioned. Please do shout if I have forgotten anything.

Books & Tools & Talks Mentioned in This Talk

• • First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
  • If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
  • Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
  • Jessie Link’s excellent talk on retrospectives at The Lead Dev in New York last year
  • Spotify’s Health Check approach
  • Sam Barnes’ talk which includes some tips on how to help teams observe & measure how they think they are doing — so you can judge the impact of changes

I was delighted to do the opening keynote at Scale Summit 2018 this morning — thanks for the warm welcome, folks. Below are the slides and links to the books, talks, etc mentioned. Please do shout if I have forgotten anything.

Books & Tools & Talks Mentioned in This Talk

• • First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
  • If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
  • Stumbling on Happiness
  • Jessie Link’s excellent talk on retrospectives at The Lead Dev in New York last year
  • Spotify’s Health Check approach
  • Sam Barnes’ talk which includes some tips on how to help teams observe & measure how they think they are doing — so you can judge the impact of changes

I was pleased to deliver the closing keynote at ScotlandPHP 2017, thanks for having me to speak.

Slides and books and links below, also a few folks asked about my Be A Brilliant People Developer workshop and The Lead Developer conference — hope to see you there!

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
• John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Thank you for the stupendous reception at Women of Silicon Roundabout today — so sorry we ran out of space before we even started, I’m humbled by how many of you sat on the floor or stood at the back through the entire talk!

Slides and books and links below, also a few folks asked about my Be A Brilliant People Developer workshop and The Lead Developer conference — hope to see you there!

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
• John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Friends, thank you for putting up with my poor microphone handling skills and laughing at my daft jokes. You were a lovely welcoming audience today at QCon São Paulo. Slides and links to books and tools mentioned are here.

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
• John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Really enjoyed keynoting at Ground Control today. As promised, slides & links 🙂

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
• John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Thanks for the warm reception at QCon London today 🙂

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Thanks for welcoming me to speak at Agile North East tonight — it’s always nice to be back in my adoptive hometown and the conversation tonight was especially fab.

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.