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Owen is based in New Zealand and has been a tech leader for more than a decade and for 6 years was a chief architect at Xero. His tech expertise and strategic oversight is helping CTOs and senior leadership teams around the world to achieve growth within a software engineering heavy company. He also shares […]

Jim is a highly experienced tech leader with extensive business achievements over a wide range of domains and particular expertise in the payment card industry, PayFac solutions, AWS, and data security. He has secured 2 successful exits as a member of the executive management team of a start-up and mid-size company. Alongside coaching global tech […]

CTO Academy collaborated with The School of Code for a presentation on a career in tech and leadership development

Suddenly as I stepped into a tech leadership role i was facing unknowns where my decisions would impact directly on my team and how effective they and I could be

Managing a negative team member is never easy so this article looks at how it can be handled.

Active listening is very different to hearing and it is what differentiates an effective leader from an average manager.

A lot of us have spent 2020 adapting to the new normal and a lot of us have found remote working for the first time. I’ve been there for a few years and worked in organisations that have embraced remote first mentality before it was cool required by a pandemic. Here are ten things my teams work on when working remotely

Emotional intelligence (“EQ”) in the workspace is a leadership topic and conversation that become particularly hot in recent years but which some technology leaders struggle with.