Leading with Moral Authority: Doing the Right Thing for your Product and Team

It's hard these days to do the right thing at work, especially in the tech world. We're under constant pressure to just get to done at any cost, even when it compromises the sustainability of our products and organizations. We know that this type of short-term focus and extractive business model leads to organization failure, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Once our organizations fail, our communities are not far behind. We really can’t afford to sit idly by and watch it happen.

We have several options for dealing with this situation while still maintaining our moral authority, but none of them are easy. Each will require courage to do the right thing and empathy for our team members.

In this session Nicole will share her experiences addressing an extractive business model in her workplaces, one that is increasingly more common in today’s business world. We'll also discuss how to recognize such a model in action and what we can do to offset it. You'll leave with concrete steps you can take to do the right thing in the face of corporate pressure to do the opposite.

Bio:
Nicole Derr is an Agile coach turned Strategic Business Advisor. She partners with leaders to build resilient, long-lasting organizations that contribute positively to their communities. Improved business outcomes are the natural result.

Together they grow organizations through innovative products and scalable, cooperative, people-first business practices.

Nicole has extensive experience with a large number of organizations in a broad range of industries throughout the United States and beyond.

While Nicole’s focus is executives and leaders, she has worked with team members at all levels and across the entire organization.