Also, thanks to everyone who came along to the How To Become A LeadDev Contributor, where I got to share some of my thoughts on how to write talk descriptions and how I got into speaking.

🎢Dominika Pietrzak sharing how to identify what we find cool, so we can delegate not-cool-to-us-but-cool-to-others work! 💻Renee Hunt highlighting how technology is key in every organisation right now and how our tech skills & backgrounds are needed in higher management roles.

Great first day at #LeadDevLondon yesterday! So inspired by the thought-provoking talks and hallway conversations! I didn’t catch all the talks cause I was also doing some behind-the-scenes speaker coaching, but the ones I did see were great!

I’m at #LeadDevLondon today! If you’re here too, come find me and say hi! I’ll be on a panel later today during the networking drinks, about how to become a LeadDev contributor! I’ll be sharing tips & tricks on coming up with talk ideas, writing talk proposals and more!

The LeadDev London Meetups are back! I can’t wait for this community to come together more often beyond just the conferences. 🙌 The first one will be April 11th, and there are still plenty of tickets available! Who will join me there?

I still remember attending my first LeadDev back in 2015. I had just started managing engineers for the first time and was still figuring out so many new things. It was still fairly smallish at the time, but the atmosphere and community was exactly what I needed.

Once upon a time, there was a girl who had to sit through a lot of messy, unstructured and frankly boring conference talks. She realised it was one of the challenges many speakers faced: how do you tell an engaging story?

The most surprising thing I learnt from my high school history teacher: how to take good notes! He'd use a red pen for dates, a green pen for important names & phrases and a black pen for everything else. I still will recall historic dates in my mind in red because of this!