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Are you in technical leadership, or aspiring to be? Do you question your technical knowledge, skills and experience? Are you concerned that you won\u2019t be able to keep up with the fast pace of change? Do you worry that you won\u2019t be able to make technical decisions, or that you won\u2019t understand what your engineers are talking about? This workshop is for you! Find out how to make your peace with these issues and more. Learn concrete coping strategies, and build a realistic plan to carry forward. You are not super-human, and neither is anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clare has the rare gift of being an experienced software engineer and having the ability to translate complex learnings into something that all participants can understand, regardless of their knowledge base.<\/p>\n

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Clare’s approach combines genuine seasoned experience with a truly unique understanding of the psychology of leadership and team dynamics… You learn something while feeling psychologically safe to ask any question you think of… I’d strongly encourage anyone with an interest in leadership… Clare’s workshops and talks are not ones to miss!<\/p>\n

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Clare raised the level of everyone in the room by encouraging a culture of knowledge-sharing and vulnerability.<\/p>\n

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Clare Sudbery<\/p>\n

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Clare Sudbery is an independent technical coach with over 25 years of software experience. She specialises in technical leadership, Test Driven Development (TDD), combining TDD with genAI, refactoring, continuous integration and other eXtreme Programming (XP) practices.
\nClare travels the world delivering workshops and bespoke training for clients and events. She\u2019s an ex high school maths teacher, taught the Coding Black Females\u2019 Return to Tech programme and co-ran Made Tech\u2019s academy. She has a passion for helping under-represented groups to flourish in tech.
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