How to Stay Fired Up 🔥 Without Burning Out - Matt Callanan

After a short break in October, we're back!

This month we are so grateful to be joined by Matt Callanan to share lessons learned from his personal journey navigating tech leadership and burnout.

📖 Talk description

Burnout is a very real threat to highly engaged, intelligent, technical leaders. But few tools are available to help us understand how and when it strikes and what to do when it does.

Having experienced burnout more than once in his 20-year technology career, Matt has been on a personal journey in 2019 to understand more about the impact of burnout, what personal and workplace factors contribute to it, and what to do once you’re in meltdown.

He brings recent research and strategies from the fields of neuroscience, medicine, psychology, and management to present key takeaways that will help you improve situational awareness while straddling the eustress/distress spectrum. He will also attempt to answer the question of why we as an engineering discipline are prone to burnout.

Whether you’re feeling a little overcooked yourself or keen to understand how to identify and prevent burnout in the people you lead, there’s something for everyone in this discussion.

🔊 Speaker bio

Matt Callanan is a Software Developer with 20 years development, lead, and management experience across finance, telecommunication, security, and travel industries. A well-received presenter to IT departments, executive teams, and technology conferences, his current focus is on Machine Learning and AI where he is passionate about mentoring software engineers in the skills they need for the future.

⏰ Schedule

6pm: Networking, food and drinks
6.20pm: Announcements
6.30pm: Talk Commences

Dinner and drinks provided by ThoughtWorks. Thank you, ThoughtWorks, for your continued support! https://www.thoughtworks.com/

🤝 Code of Conduct

A reminder that CTO School Brisbane is a respectful community of professionals with a code of conduct. Our meetup's code of conduct is available at the following link:
https://gist.github.com/larenelg/8d12c09266a28d0466176ff67fb6c57c