The Human Dimension in Leadership to Fast, Effective and Scalable Product Dev't


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TITLE: The Human Dimension in Leadership to Fast, Effective and Scalable Product Development
SPEAKERS: Corinne Rattay
About the Speakers:
Corinne Rattay is an accomplished, passionate and thought-stimulating executive with 15 years of success in engineering leadership, product development, global team building & remote team management, off-shoring, business coaching and management consulting.
She has gained a well-rounded industry experience at Juniper Networks, Alcatel France and successful start-up companies holding positions such as Director of Engineering, Director of System Test & Product Validation, Product Manager, Program Management, Process Design, and reaching all the way to hands-on customer field trials, System Integration, real-time Software Development & radio frequency Microchip Design.
As a Breakthrough Leadership Consultant she helps high-tech executives achieve extraordinary results with:
- Product Development, overcoming barriers to innovation, better products, faster cycles
- Change Acceleration, shifting paradigms and beliefs to create new possibilities
- Leadership Transformation, elevating the client's thinking quality and leadership focus
She can be reached at crattay@crexecutiveconsulting.com or at www.CRexecutiveconsulting.com (http://www.crexecutiveconsulting.com/)
Details of talk:
Most Engineering teams never get a chance to show their full potential. Leaders in fast-growing companies have learned to accept average team results, day-to-day stress and constant last-minute surprises in their deadline struggles. Why is this the way most high-tech companies approach software or product development? Why live with organizational tension and eventual team burnout when there are proven ways to get better products out faster and create a culture of happy teams? In this interactive and stimulating talk, engineering leaders at all levels will experience a paradigm shift in their level of thinking, which is the first step towards needed transformational change in R&D organizations so they can scale from successful start-ups to efficient, mature, market-leading companies. Corinne Rattay is an expert in R&D Transformation leveraging her engineering leadership experience at Juniper Networks. She will share exciting, personal insights and experiences she has gained in over a decade as engineering leader and director, explaining the crucial foundation of the human dimension in leadership combined with key product lifecycle processes that truly work.
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Agenda
6:15 - 6:30 Early arrival recommended!
6:30 - 7:00 Registration / Checkin
6:30 - 7:00 Enjoy wine, beer, cheese, fruit, snacks, pizza, soda and networking
6:31 - 6:59 Engineering Leadership Peer-2-Peer Roundtable
7:00 - 7:10 Introduction and opening announcements
7:10 - 8:20 Keynote and Q&A
8:20 - 8:30 Closing announcements
8:30 - 8:45 Informal networking and followup Q&A
8:45 - 8:50 Clean up
8:50 - 9:00 Clear the room & have a safe trip home!
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