As a Popular Speaker & Leadership Consultant, Jossie specializes in showing technology leaders how to build highly inclusive, high performance teams that drive revenue, reduce turnover and increase business productivity.
Because here’s the thing: Leading a team of technology and engineering folks isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
You have egos to manage, deadlines to meet and non tech business leaders to whom you have to explain everything to.
But as someone who spent 20+ years as a software engineering leader for companies like Apple, Zynga and American Express, Jossie learned one important thing when it comes to being a leader in the technology space: To be successful you absolutely have to implement an inclusive and collaborative leadership style that not only provides motivation and structure for the team to drive growth, but also leaves the necessary space for team members to be both innovative and creative at the same time.
It’s these two things TOGETHER that creates high performing teams that consistently reach and exceed business revenue goals.
And while that’s easy to talk about, it’s been Jossie’s experience that most technology leaders don’t have BOTH skill sets: The structure and organization, AND the inclusiveness and collaborative leadership approach that’s absolutely necessary to make the entire team run smoothly.
Which is why during her presentations, Jossie leverages her 20+ years of experience as technology leader and creates a framework of collaborative and inclusive leadership principles – specifically designed for those in the engineering and technology space – which allows leaders to build highly performing, highly inclusive teams that thrive…despite a rapidly changing environment.
And I don’t say that to make anybody wrong, but if you ask anyone who’s worked in the industry for any period of time, most would agree that generally speaking, teams pretty much “look” the same.
And while that might not sound like a big deal, here’s the problem: That lack of diversity and inclusion, decreases team creativity and productivity, which translates into lower business revenue.
Why?
Because most people who “look” the same have a tendency to think the same, and problem solve the same, and do a lot of other things similarly, which can significantly impact product design, innovation and customer satisfaction.
Conversely, when you have a more diverse and inclusive culture inside that team, you’re problem solving and innovating with individuals that have a varied set of skills, beliefs and experience levels.
It’s no longer just the same old same old when it comes to product innovation or problem solving or just team dynamics in general, because now you have a team culture that prioritizes the inclusion of a whole host of experiences, point of views and creative abilities that can absolutely become a legitimate competitive advantage for your business.
And it’s during this session where I show participants how diversity and inclusion is a key ingredient for building and leading high performing teams, as well as some do’s and don’ts for operationalizing those learnings and making them work inside their organization.
- Technology leaders who are looking new ideas on how to increase company ROI
- Conference attendees who are looking for innovative tactical ideas to retain their top talent and build happier more motivated teams
- Technology leaders who are looking to re-energize their team
Because here’s the thing: Leading a team of technology and engineering folks isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
You have egos to manage, deadlines to meet and non tech business leaders to whom you have to explain everything to.
But as a Leader, the trick is to implement an inclusive and collaborative leadership style that not only provides motivation and structure for the team to drive growth, but also leaves the necessary space for team members to be both innovative and creative at the same time.
And it’s exactly those tactics and frameworks that enable leaders to build high performing, highly inclusive teams that Jossie talks about during her fast paced, highly interactive presentations.
And it wasn’t like all the guys on the team or within the organization were deliberately “out to get me” or anything, but I can say from personal experience that being a female leader in a predominantly male industry presented a unique set of challenges.
These included but were not limited to: Not being taken seriously as a technology leader in general, having my ideas ignored and/or appropriated by others, and almost always being assumed as the “non technical” person in the room.
The result?
Something I call “death by 1,000 paper cuts,” which obviously made a tough situation even tougher…simply because of my gender.
Which is why I’ve taken my 23 years of experience as a leader at Apple and other technology companies, and translate that into some easy to understand, easy to implement do’s and don’ts, which women leaders can start using right away.
You will learn things like:
- How to communicate in a way that's most effective for your audience
- How to best navigate the unique set of challenges presented to most female leaders in male-dominated industries
- How to be more resilience and protect yourself from the "death by a thousand paper cuts" throughout the day
- 3 ways to empower yourself at work
- Female leaders in the technology and/or engineering space who want to be more successful in a male-dominated industry without compromising who they are
- Conference attendees who are looking for some actionable advice on how to become a better leader in a technology or engineering company
Because here’s the thing: Leading a team of technology and engineering folks isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
You have egos to manage, deadlines to meet and non tech business leaders to whom you have to explain everything to.
But as a Leader, the trick is to implement an inclusive and collaborative leadership style that not only provides motivation and structure for the team to drive growth, but also leaves the necessary space for team members to be both innovative and creative at the same time.
And it’s exactly those tactics and frameworks that enable leaders to build high performing, highly inclusive teams that Jossie talks about during her fast paced, highly interactive presentations.
