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.

Tack så mycket for having me to speak at Offentlig Chef this afternoon. As promised, here are the slides and links and books mentioned in the talk.

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
• 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
• Harvard’s implicit bias tool < use to understand yourself better and tune your behaviour

Thanks for having me to speak as part of the inaugural Thinking Digital Women. Here are the slides and the materials / resources mentioned during the talk.

Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• 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
• Harvard’s implicit bias tool < use to understand yourself better and tune your behaviour

I usually do a longer version of this talk including a bunch of stuff on how to lead and develop multi-disciplinary teams; the Agile People Sweden team kindly published the video of me keynoting on Practical Diversity at their conference last October in case of interest.

Thank you to everyone at Agile People Sweden for welcoming me to keynote again this year. You are always such a warm and receptive audience, I love speaking to you.

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

• Neil Hilborn’s wonderful poem, The Future. You can also check out his new book, Our Numbered Days
• It Was Never a Dress
• 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
• Quiet, the Power of Introverts for more on introversion & extroversion
• And did I mention, you really need to watch the new Ghostbusters?

Some Further Reading

• Neurodiversity in the Workplace: The Wave of the Future
• Brain Differences
• Neurodiversity in the workplace
• Five Things to Consider When Managing Someone with Autism
• Five Strategies for Those with Autism
• How Attitudes Are Changing to Neurodiversity in the Workforce
• Neurodiversity & Innovation: The Benefits of Hiring Employees Who Break the Mold