Speaking

Ideas become useful when they move people.

Selected keynotes and leadership conversations that make complex organizational and engineering questions easier to see and act on.

01

Transformation

Transformation is a capability, not a programme

A practical reframing of transformation for leaders who need change to survive beyond the initiative.

02

Engineering

Build the organization that can build what’s next

How operating systems, leadership behavior and engineering strategy reinforce one another.

03

Leadership

Leading when the answer is not obvious

Creating clarity, useful constraints and confidence in environments of genuine uncertainty.

04

Responsible AI

From AI possibility to meaningful outcomes

Connecting value hypotheses, human accountability, guardrails and evidence so adoption creates more than activity.

What the audience leaves with

Questions and language they can use the next day.

  • 01A clearer way to see the operating system beneath repeated symptoms.
  • 02A practical distinction between transformation activity and transformation capability.
  • 03Questions that improve leadership decisions under uncertainty.
  • 04A concrete next conversation, not a borrowed ten-step formula.

Forum relationships

A continuing conversation across professional communities.

Rather than a chronology, this is a view of the relationships through which ideas have been shared, tested and refined on stages, in roundtables, through writing and in mentoring communities.

01Global engineering forums

we.CONECT

A recurring presence across Enterprise:CODE, Delivery of Things World and ScaleUp 360, sharing field experience on software architecture, engineering systems, transformation and leadership.

  • Enterprise:CODE
  • Delivery of Things World
  • ScaleUp 360 Better Software
  • ScaleUp 360 Software Architecture
02Practitioner community

DevOps Institute

A long-running relationship through the ambassador community, practitioner dialogue and contributions to shared industry knowledge.

  • Ambassador community
  • SKILup
  • Industry research
03Leadership learning

Global Skill Development Council

Contributing practitioner perspectives, including Strategic Leadership in DevOps, to a global professional learning community.

  • GSDC
  • Strategic leadership
  • Practitioner writing
04Technology forums

Independent stages

Participation in forums including What’s Next Tech Summit, DevOps Summit Canada and the DevOps Leadership Forum, connecting engineering practice with wider leadership questions.

  • What’s Next Tech Summit
  • DevOps Summit Canada
  • DevOps Leadership Forum
  • Virtual forums
05Editorial & research dialogue

Knowledge communities

Sharing operating experience through features, research participation and professional dialogue with communities such as Digital Energy Journal and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.

  • Editorial features
  • Research participation
  • Advisory dialogue
06Mentoring & innovation

Communities beyond the stage

Continuing participation through mentoring and innovation networks, including Diversify, GründerAcademy and the Microsoft Innovation Board.

  • Mentoring
  • Innovation networks
  • Community learning

Professional exchange

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