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...
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WFH, LFH and the E-learning Revolution
Alongside the established heavyweight acronyms of LOL, GWS and GSOH arrives the definitive acronym of our time. Prior to Covid-19, WFH occupied a niche space in the acronym world ... World Federation of Healing Wartime Flying Hours Wages...
Professional Growth : Why It Pays To Be Intentional
What is Professional Growth? The definition of professional growth will be different things for different people but it certainly means more than certificates on the wall. Performance Expert Bill Eckstrom “it’s the development or better...
Tech Leaders and the tussle of Hard Skills vs Soft Skills
With perhaps the odd and memorable exception, most of the people who land at CTO Academy get the difference between hard skills and soft skills. The career development challenge is that they have bags of the former, but can struggle with...
Crisis Leadership : Keep Calm, But Don’t Carry On As Normal
'As a tech leader you’re probably being tested now in ways you thought unlikely and almost unthinkable just a few weeks ago. This is a crisis like no other. It is impacting on us in a way that will only truly unravel during the weeks,...
Meet the Team : Sanjay Mistry
Sanjay is an experienced CTO and leadership coach based in the UK but working with tech leaders around the world, particularly those working within fast growth and SME companies. He is skilled at providing expert technical advice to...
Meet the Team : Zoe Fragou
Zoe hails from Greece and is an Organizational Psychologist and Executive Level Leadership Coach. She works with companies to transform their organisational culture and help them build thriving teams that increase wellbeing as well as...
Meet The Team : Richard Weaver
Richard is a recruitment professional with 20+ years industry expertise having delivered large technology and business transformation programme teams. He is also a champion of candidate driven recruitment and is at the heart of developing...
Meet The Team : Jason Noble
Tech entrepreneur with extensive board level IT innovation and computer science experience. Has been technical director of software businesses and managed large, complex enterprise projects with successful exits. His career has been...
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