CTO CONNECTION COMMUNITIES
At CTO Connection, we are creating a small set of exclusive, global, invite-only communities where software engineering leaders can share problems and get answers from their closest peers. We're also aggregating the best engineering leadership wisdom into playbooks by role and scale so we can create and continually update the definitive guides for effective engineering leadership.

There are lots of types of engineering leadership - from team lead to CTO, tiny teams to huge orgs, and stasis to hypergrowth. And the questions you have and the answers you need are highly dependent on your role, scale and growth trajectory...
What is the biggest challenge you're facing right now in building or managing your engineering team? Let us help you to solve it...
If you're an engineering leader and you'd like to apply for membership (free at least for 2022!), please select your role:
CTO
Up to the two most senior engineering leaders within your organization - even if you're an(S)VP Eng, Head of Engineering or have some other title. Often a CTO and a VPE.
Director/VP
You're not the most senior engineering leader within your org, but you're responsible for managing managers or directors. In some orgs, Senior Engineering Managers will have managers reporting to them, so they qualify
Senior Individual Contributors
You’re a senior Individual contributor who spends most of your time influencing other engineers within your org. Typically staff, principal, or distinguished engineer or architect.
The Next Generation
Technologists interested in learning about a career in engineering leadership
Team Lead/Engineering manager
You're directly responsible for supporting a single team of engineers
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If you're an engineering leader and you'd like to apply for membership (free at least for 2022!), please select your role:
CTO
Up to the two most senior engineering leaders within your organization - even if you're an(S)VP Eng, Head of Engineering or have some other title. Often a CTO and a VPE.
Director/VP
You're not the most senior engineering leader within your org, but you're responsible for managing managers or directors. In some orgs, Senior Engineering Managers will have managers reporting to them, so they qualify
Senior Individual Contributors
You’re a senior Individual contributor who spends most of your time influencing other engineers within your org. Typically staff, principal, or distinguished engineer or architect.
The Next Generation
Technologists interested in learning about a career in engineering leadership
Team Lead/Engineering manager
You're directly responsible for supporting a single team of engineers
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
AT CTO CONNECTION WE CAN HELP YOU TO BUILD:
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:
If you're an engineering leader and you'd like to apply for membership (free at least for 2022!), please select your role:
CTO
Up to the two most senior engineering leaders within your organization - even if you're an(S)VP Eng, Head of Engineering or have some other title. Often a CTO and a VPE.
Director/VP
You're not the most senior engineering leader within your org, but you're responsible for managing managers or directors. In some orgs, Senior Engineering Managers will have managers reporting to them, so they qualify
Senior Individual Contributors
You’re a senior Individual contributor who spends most of your time influencing other engineers within your org. Typically staff, principal, or distinguished engineer or architect.
The Next Generation
Technologists interested in learning about a career in engineering leadership
Team Lead/Engineering manager
You're directly responsible for running a single team of engineers
WE ASK THAT EVERY COMMMUNITY MEMBER SHOW:
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.
If you're an engineering leader and you'd like to apply for membership (free at least for 2022!), please select your role:
CTO
Up to the two most senior engineering leaders within your organization - even if you're an(S)VP Eng, Head of Engineering or have some other title. Often a CTO and a VPE.
Director/VP
You're not the most senior engineering leader within your org, but you're responsible for managing managers or directors. In some orgs, Senior Engineering Managers will have managers reporting to them, so they qualify
Senior Individual Contributors
You’re a senior Individual contributor who spends most of your time influencing other engineers within your org. Typically staff, principal, or distinguished engineer or architect.
The Next Generation
Technologists interested in learning about a career in engineering leadership
Team Lead/Engineering manager
You're directly responsible for supporting a single team of engineers
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