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So You Want a Seat at the Table? How to influence outcomes in your engineering organization

First Session: 

Hosted by Kent Wills

Director of Engineering - Core Experience at Yelp


Circle Description

So you have an idea, but you aren't getting traction. How do you figure out next steps? How do you build trust with other leaders? How do you find the right problems to solve? Leadership can be a lonely place, but you don't have to deal with these problems alone. Let's get together and talk about tactics that have worked and ones that haven't worked so well. We can dig into what might have gone wrong and I can share some concrete experiences and tactics that have been useful in my own career. About the leader of this Circle: Kent leads Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp. In his role he works with a variety of stakeholders with a variety of needs. These responsibilities span from aiding the CTO and Chief of Staff with engineering metrics to determine engineering strategy to providing support to key product organizations to developing the IC interview pipeline within our talent organization. He was previously involved in helping young women learn more about the tech industry and giving them a head start with the #builtbygirls program and is an active member of the AWE mentorship program at Yelp. Prior to Yelp he served as a US Army officer for four years in various leadership positions from management to director roles.


This circle is full.


Benefits of joining this Circle:

  • Engage in interactive learning with a limited group of peers ( Full)
  • Bring your own challenges and the Kent will be able to help in live
  • Lifetime access to all session material: slides, templates, recordings and additional resources

What people are saying about Kent

Thanks for the great advice as always !

Vijay Krishna Dandu - Senior Systems Engineer @ Momentive

Kent's advice was exact to the needs of my team. I am delighted I had this conversation and am looking forward to putting these into action.

Manjunath Basaralu Srinivasa - Engineering Manager @ Atlassian

Thank you Kent for valuable perspectives on things related to engineering effectiveness and productivity

Manoj Pahuja - Engineering Director, Quality and Productivity @ Shippo

Kent understood my situation better, shared similar scenarios, and gave very specific actionable advice. He is very inspiring and super helpful. I would like to check all the boxes above - actionable advice, candor, great listener, inspiring, preparedness and productive conversation.

Hem P - Developer @ Not Applicable

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