Chinese New Year Edition: Bridging the Gap – Aligning Strategy to Execution with

Eliminate the Visibility Blind Spot: Connect high-level objectives to daily work so teams find purpose and leaders gain real-time clarity, without the burden of manual reporting. Atlassian Goals | OKRs

Join Abbas Heidari (Atlassian Expert & Community Leader) as we use a fictional Australian events company, Dragon & Drum, to explore how leaders can connect strategy to execution without drowning teams in status updates.

In the lead-up to Chinese New Year, expectations are public and delivery is reputational. When the drums start, it is already too late to fix alignment.

The "Strategy Gap" is the friction that happens when high-level objectives are set at the top, but the teams delivering the work - Engineers, Designers, and Project Leads - struggle to see how their daily tasks move the needle.

Conversely, leaders are often left in the dark, unable to see real-time progress without forcing teams into cycles of manual reporting.⭐ What You Will Learn

The Dragon & Drum Case Study: How a high-stakes event company uses Atlassian Goals to manage recruitment, logistics, and performance readiness.

The Connectivity Framework: How to link Atlassian Goals directly to Jira work items so the "Why" behind the "Drum" is always visible.

Ending the "Status Update" Nightmare: See how automated tracking reduces "Where are we on this?" meetings.

For the Goal Setters: Gain a real-time view of health and confidence scores without pestering teams.

For the Individual Contributors: Find meaning in daily tasks by seeing exactly which organizational promise you are helping to keep.

Existing Limitations: Understand current Goal limitations and known workarounds.

🎯 Who Should Attend?

Execs, Ops, & Transformation Leaders accountable for outcomes rather than activity.

Team Leads & Managers looking to improve alignment and transparency.

Atlassian Enthusiasts curious about the latest Goal-tracking features.

📅 Event Details

Format: Virtual (Online)

Warm-up: Join us 5 minutes early for a playful Chinese Zodiac session to find your sign!

Perks: Live Q&A + Meet for Trees Kudos Badge.

Speaker: Abbas Heidari Community Champion: Host: Michelle Letho (Atlassian Community Leader)

Agenda

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Hosted By

Mit Tolia, Atlassian practice & capability lead

With 20 years of consulting experience, I specialize in helping organizations leverage Agile and technology to drive business outcomes. Passionate about Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, I work with enterprises to implement Atlassian solutions that foster business agility, enhance collaboration, and provide meaningful insights for informed decision-making.

As an Atlassian geek, my expertise spans the entire Atlassian ecosystem, with a focus on Enterprise Strategy & Planning, Cloud Migrations, and Agile Scaling. I have extensive experience in implementing Jira Align, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management (JSM)—helping teams optimize workflows, inculcate the right behaviors, and scale Agile practices from the team level to enterprise-wide adoption.

Always eager to explore new possibilities in the Atlassian space, I thrive on enabling organizations to build adaptive, customer-centric solutions that embrace the future of work and to build communities to constantly learn from each other.

Bonnie Emmerson, Atlassian Community Champion

Andy Fleming, Atlassian Community Champion

Michelle Letho, Account Executive & Networking Junkie

Michelle (Miche) Letho is the Melbourne Atlassian Community Event (ACE) Champion and an Account Executive at Willyama Togetha, Australia’s only Indigenous-owned Atlassian Platinum Partner. She helps organisations imagine, build, and scale better ways of working through Atlassian solutions that boost collaboration, visibility, and impact.

A member of the Transformers Unite leadership team, Miche supports national change and transformation events that bring practitioners together to learn and share. With a career spanning tech, FMCG, a Startup founder and consulting, she blends commercial know-how with curiosity and heart.

If she's not at networking events, outside work, she keeps busy ubering teens at calisthenics and netball. and recharges through yoga, Pilates and hiking.

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