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Whether you’re a staff, principal or distinguished engineer or some flavor of architect, if most of your job is comprised of influencing other engineers, but you have none or few direct reports, join a community designed just for the leadership challenges that you face.
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MEMBER BENEFITS
ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
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Share your engineering leadership challenges with the community online
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Ask your questions live during our regular, confidential office hours with mentors
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Review our evolving playbooks covering everything from tooling, hiring, onboarding and training to hybrid, management, leadership and org design (coming soon)
KEEP UP TO DATE
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Regular fireside chats and AMAs with other engineering leaders sharing their latest learnings/experiences
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Exclusive newsletter for your community sharing the latest discussions and takeaways from your peers and mentors
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Get a regular feed of community recommended articles on engineering leadership appropriate to your role and scale
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IN ADDITION YOU CAN

GET BENCHMARKING DATA
Propose surveys on anything from tooling to
compensation that the community will vote on
and contribute to

BUILD YOUR NETWORK
Build a strong, trusted community of peers to
help you in your engineering leadership journey

SHARE YOUR WISDOM
We make it easy to share your experiences,and
we'll help you by packaging and distributing
your wisdom to the community so you can
focus on building your team and we'll focus on
helping you to share your learnings
Your Team
- With proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent
Your Impact
- Helping you to make your organization both more effective and more efficient
Your Credibility
- Leveraging a community that can share both quantitative and qualitative resources to inform and support your decisions
Your Career
- Helping you to build the skills and network required to grow your success, ease and impact as an engineering leader
WE CREATE COMMUNITIES THAT BELIEVE:
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We can build more effective engineering organizations by learning
from each other
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All challenges are shallow-with enough peers to bounce them off of
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There are some good practices in engineering leadership,but context is key. By focusing communities around a specific role,
scale and pace of growth we can have more fruitful discussions and solve problems more quickly and elegantly
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My name is Peter Bell. I ran engineering at General Assembly (an EdTech startup in NYC) along with a bunch of
other startups that didn't get quite so much traction :) After getting fired from GA, I wanted to become a
better engineering leader, and despite having co-founded the NY CTO School and being a member of the NY
CTO Club, I really wanted to build a better way for senior engineering leaders to share problems and get
answers.
In 2014, I organized the Inaugural New York CTO Summit where the CTOs of companies like MongoDB and
Warby Parker shared their experiences of building and managing fast growth engineering orgs. Since then I've
run 28 in-person and over 100 online summits, and it's clear from the 600+ presentations from senior
engineering leaders that there are "good practices" for building and managing a fast growth engineering team
- but they are not well distributed and often change frequently.
If you'd like access to monthly exclusive fireside chats, tutorials, benchmarks, case studies and playbooks on the hard parts of
building and managing a fast growth engineering org optimized for growth stage venture backed companies
and a safe, supportive, high trust, personally vetted community of other senior engineering leaders, join us on our
journey to identify, organize and distribute effective, "good practices" for engineering leadership.
We are focusing on quality over quantity, so if you're interested in joining the community, please do sign up
ASAP as we'll be pausing admissions frequently to make sure we can personally connect with and build a
strong relationship with all of our new members.
We're all busy, but this is a chance to build a high trust support network to help you navigate the challenges
of managing and scaling the impact of your org.
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