About us
We are a community of longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Our mission is to help each other learn through conversation and sharing of ideas.
We host monthly in-person events on the first Tuesday of each month.
Leadership is a learnable skill, however learning about leadership in the technology industry is often left to chance. This often leads to frustration for both leaders and those being led.
Many technology leaders get the job by default. They are the best or most senior technologist and suddenly find themselves leading meetings, negotiating for resources, making strategic decisions, participating in hiring, and a whole range of other mission-critical activities that fall outside of the technical toolbox. The world of leading / managing talented technologists can be messy.
We have many leaders practicing different leadership / management approaches from various companies around us. We can all learn from each other by coming together and sharing our experiences.
We aim to create an open community of people managers and technology leaders to exchange regularly about managing teams, solving difficult organisational topics, discovering new ways of working with the people we are allowed to mentor and all other aspects.
Just like in the core of tech, managing people and teams is never "done" and there is always new things to learn, impulses to follow, old practices to discard or revive. This is the place to help each other and move forward, become more professional and grow for ourselves and for the people and organisations we lead.
The hypothesis being that sharing our experiences will grow us into better leaders which over the long term will make the technology industry a better place for everyone.
Thank you to our sponsors - OfferZen
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OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.
Upcoming events
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Tech Leadership Meetup with Sara Owen (Engineering Manager at Electrum Software)
Electrum Software Office, 51 Gogosoa St, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, Cape Town, ZAJoin us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup.
There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.
The event will be hosted at the Electrum Software Office, Observatory.
The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:15 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:15 - 18:20 - Introduction and house rules.
18:20 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Sara Owen.
19:00 - 20:30 - Networking and wrap up.Topic of Main Talk - The Secret Sauce of High-Performing Teams
Shipping great products is not just about the tech stack. It is about the humans behind the keyboards. Join us as we explore the ingredients for building high-performing, high-velocity engineering teams.
We will unpack what drives:- Cohesion through role clarity and high trust.
- Innovation through psychological safety, where people can learn from mistakes and challenge ideas openly.
- Ownership through autonomy.
We will also share practical ways to make candid feedback a habit, and how to handle the ultimate leadership test: addressing low performance with compassion while remaining firm to protect your team and culture.
Sara Owen is an Engineering Manager at Electrum Software, responsible for creating and leading high-performing teams that build next-generation payments software. Working from a servant leadership approach, Sara believes that trust, collaboration, and ownership are the core principles in forming elite-level software development teams.
Sara completed her Honours in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. In 2020, she joined Electrum’s Graduate Programme. Rising quickly through the ranks, Sara began her leadership journey as a Team Lead in 2022 and continued to advance, reaching her current position in 2025.
Parking details:
Location: Electrum is on the podium level, above the Riverlands Mall.
Entering Riverlands from Liesbeek Parkway:- Drive to the first circle and turn right. You will see Woolworths and Clicks on your left.
- Continue straight and take the down ramp labeled P1 into the basement retail parking.
- Park in the yellow zone.
- Use the lift lobby nearest pillar B4 (not the escalators, as they lead to the mall).
- Take the lift to Level P and turn left as you exit the automated doors. Electrum, Building 3, is straight ahead.
Entering Riverlands from Berkley Road:
- Turn left at the Traffic Light and follow the road, keep left at the first circle. You will see Woolworths on your left.
- Turn left at the next circle and take the down ramp labeled P1 into the basement retail parking.
- Park in the yellow zone.
- Use the lift lobby nearest pillar B4 (not the escalators, as they lead to the mall).
- Take the lift to Level P and turn left as you exit the automated doors. Electrum, Building 3, is straight ahead
Parking: Validate your parking at reception using the QR code before you leave our offices.
Thank you to our sponsors OfferZen
OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.---
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