Podcast Episodes

Navigating Rapid Change: Skills to Cultivate Resilience, Adaptability & Creativity in Engineering Teams w/ Melody Meckfessel #206

ABOUT MELODY MECKFESSEL

Melody Meckfessel is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Jasper.ai, the world’s leading AI marketing platform. In her role, …

1 year, 5 months ago

Building Trust: Strategic humor, bridging communication gaps & enabling your team to do more #205

ABOUT ANDY KORTZ

Andy Kortz is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Integra Testing, where he leads technology transformation and drives operatio…

1 year, 5 months ago

Faster iteration & execution: Insights from Google Workspace’s AI product experience journey w/ Anurag Agarwal #204

ABOUT ANURAG AGARWAL

Anurag Agarwal leads the Google Workspace engineering organization, overseeing products such as Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, Doc…

1 year, 5 months ago

Winning Hearts & Minds: Effective Strategies for Leading Through Change from IC to EM, post M&A and more w/ Kathryn Vandiver #203

Kathryn Vandiver (Former VP of Engineering @ Quanata) shares insights on providing new leadership during significant organizational change. First, we…

1 year, 6 months ago

The four modes of coaching & navigating career growth in expanding or contracting companies w/ James Birchler #202

We discuss the four modes of coaching and navigate career growth in expanding / contracting companies with James Birchler. James shares highlights fr…

1 year, 6 months ago

Unleashing potential in your employees & strategies to grow leadership skills in your org w/ Natalie Glance #201

Natalie Glance, Chief Engineering Officer @ Duolingo joins us for a conversation on unleashing potential in your employees! We discuss practices that…

1 year, 7 months ago

Building an AI-first company & interactive AI avatar leadership use-cases w/ Rong Yan #200

In this episode, we explore building an AI-first company and engineering org with Rong Yan (CTO @ HeyGen)! We dive into the potential of HeyGen’s int…

1 year, 7 months ago

Re-defining & elevating engineering’s strategic role with the business w/ Rajashree Pimpalkhare #199

In this episode, Rajashree Pimpalkhare (VP / Engineering leader for Unified Builder platform and experiences @ Twilio) reflects on her experiences re…

1 year, 7 months ago

How engineering leaders can better drive business outcomes & increase alignment between product and engineering w/ Gokul Rajaram #198

In this episode, Gokul Rajaram illuminates how eng leaders can better impact business outcomes & become key players in business strategy! We also add…

1 year, 7 months ago

From VPE to CTO - mission-aligned teams, prioritizing company over department outcomes & the power of a “not do” list w/ Ryan Fox #197

Ryan Fox, CTO @ Super.com, joins us to dissect his leadership transition from Vice President of Engineering to CTO. He shares how he created his own …

1 year, 8 months ago