Missile Destroyers, Supercomputers, and Chernobyl: Psychological safety & teams.

Safety isn't just necessary in order to prevent disasters, it's also crucial to building and maintaining high performance teams and organisations.

Building high performing software requires high performing teams, in which team members need to feel able to express their creativity, talents and skills without self-censoring, self-silencing, or fear of failure. In this talk, Tom introduces the latest research in high performance technology teams, and provides actionable concepts to help you build and elevate your team.

Tom is an expert in transforming team performance. A "veteran technology team builder" according to Computing Magazine, Over his 15 years as a technology leader, he has come to believe that culture trumps strategy, and happiness precedes success.

Tom is currently the Head of Technology at MoreNiche in Nottingham, CTO of Ydentity, an identity protection startup, and a management consultant for Q5. Outside of work, Tom is a yoga teacher and mountain biker.

In order to keep attendees safe from Covid-19, this event will take place online but we'll try our best to include audience participation, and questions as well as the opportunity to chat with like minded people online.

I hope you can join online at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/missile-destroyers