Joel Chippindale's CTO Consulting

A consultancy that helps you build high-performing, inclusive software development teams.

I am Joel Chippindale. I am a CTO adviser who has 20 years experience building, scaling and leading software development teams, mainly in start-ups, including CTO and COO roles at FutureLearn and CTO roles at Econsultancy and Unmade.

I believe in the importance and value of building inclusive, empowered, sustainable teams and have experienced the challenges of nurturing the cultures, skills and practices that enable teams and individuals to achieve their full capabilities.

I use my experience, beliefs and skills to help organisations overcome the challenges they face in building more effective and inclusive software development teams.

In practice this includes:

• Working with established teams to help them overcome the practical, cultural, leadership or organisational problems that prevent them from helping their businesses reach their objectives and become more productive, sustainable and rewarding to work in.
• Coaching, mentoring or supporting members of a leadership or engineering team through periods of growth and change.
• Advising and supporting leadership teams that are currently without a CTO.

The wealth of experience that Joel brings from his years as a CTO/COO in high-growth, mission-driven companies has been invaluable to us. He’s particularly astute when it comes to building great engineering cultures, and he really helped us shape our thinking around what we need to get our new tech product off the ground.

I’d highly recommend him to any growing startups keen to build engineering teams that are inclusive and high performing.

Contact

Please get in touch if you want to explore how we might work together.

Or your can email me at joel@monkeysthumb.co.uk.

What people say about my work

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  Joel was the founding CTO and subsequently COO of FutureLearn from launch and laid the foundations for its successful fundraise at a valuation of £100m in 2019. He is not only a clear expert in his technical field but also one of the best managers and leaders I have had the privilege of working with.

  The high-performance, supportive culture that we built at FutureLearn was heavily influenced by Joel’s leadership instincts and expertise. I strongly endorse Joel as an outstanding CTO and extremely valuable all-rounder in a start-up/scale-up company.

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  Joel is a talented CTO, who I’ve enjoyed working alongside for the past two and half years. He brings experience to the table, in not only building effective technology development teams but ones that are inclusive, supportive and that people love to work within. These skills have allowed Unmade to build better products but have also been applied across the organisation to make it operate more effectively as a whole.

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