How Senior Leaders need to evolve to support a culture of continuous learning. I’ll share my personal journey and what I’ve learned and observed as I’ve moved from being an engineer into leadership.

Some of the principles I believe are core to the Senior leadership evolution:

• Honor & Extract Reality
• Understand the work - Go & See (not Go & Tell)
• Provide strategic prioritization/focus/discipline
• Become a Teacher - Problem Solving & Improvement Kata
• Empower with accountability through context/purpose/mission
• Lead by Example (actions matching words)
• Human Error is NOT a root cause
• There is no single root cause
• Be a lifelong learner
• People are the organization’s #1 asset (R-E-S-P-E-C-T)

I will also touch on how lean and DevOps have inspired me as a leader and what I’ve learned as techniques and tactics (value stream mapping, A3 problem solving, WIP limits, retros, improvement kata) to apply within in the teams I support.

I hope attendees would learn what they should expect from their leaders and how these principles can add value regardless of their role in the organization.