Category: Management and Leadership
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2024 Round-up!
Happy New Year folks! I hope the holidays treat you well! Back at the start of 2024, I posted my goals for the year. So let’s take a look back at those goals and review how I got along! #1. ‘New Job, New Me’ I remember sitting down trying to…
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Women in Tech: My Role Model
For many people, we fall into our careers through a series of minor events in our lives that culminate in something far beyond the reach of any individual interaction. Sometimes it’s a childhood experience. Sometimes it’s pushed onto us by our parents. Sometimes though, there’s a catalyst. A seed crystal…
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TrustedTechTalks is live
The beautiful and amazing Amy-Louise Boardman asked me if I wanted to take part in their TrustedTechTalks, a web series where folks from across the tech industry are brought in to discuss everything from their biggest career challenge to their favorite tech. It’s still a new series, and I’m the…
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Staff Retention & Job Satisfaction
In the tech world, staff retention is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge. People are moving between roles more often than ever before and there’s a simple reason for this: Stagnation Stagnation in a role breeds resentment, disillusionment and a constant feeling that the grass is always greener somewhere else.…
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You’re not the smartest person in the room
When I took the first step in my career, the move from Academia to Corporate was shocking. I went from being one of the smartest people around me with nothing to prove, to one of the most naive, inexperienced and immature people in the building. Looking back I’m stunned someone…
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2024 Goals
Happy new year folks! I hope you’ve had a fantastic break over the holidays! It’s that time where many people make a list of goals for the new year, and for the first time in my life I’ll follow suit! #1 – I’m starting a new role with Redgate on…
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Merry Christmas Nerds!
I want to wish you all the most magical holiday season & hope to see you in 2024!!
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Traumatic Liminality & RSD
I was watching Brandon Sanderson give his key note speech at DragonSteel 2023 on the run up to releasing his new book, Defiant (side note, I can’t wait to read it!). He talked about liminality, these transitional states of mind, either in time or in physical space, that bridge the…
Danielle Summers 