Portland Tech Leadership Meetup

A candid, free-wheeling roundtable on staying steady when life and headlines crash into the roadmap. We’ll trade tactics for protecting delivery and dignity—clear boundaries, calm communication under pressure, and principled escalation—without drifting into performative empathy or hardball denial. Expect sharp prompts, real stories, and simple practices for leading when personal, professional, or political stress skews a team’s focus. Leave with a few durable rituals to keep standards high while keeping people human.

Light food and drink will be provided.

Join us for our end of the year party where you can spend time with fellow leaders over free food and drink!

For leaders tired of babysitting velocity: we’ll examine the signals, stories, and social proof that make success contagious. Bring a thorny team dynamic and we’ll crowd-test approaches that convert skeptics into stewards. Walk out with lightweight habits that make “managed” feel obsolete.

Light food and drink will be provided.

Metrics can steer or seduce. We’ll dissect how to pick a few, measurable, behavior-shaping signals; how to set guardrails so teams don’t game them; and how to reset when the graph lies.

Light food and drink will be provided.