Format: Interactive group workshop
Location: Online or in-person
Duration: About 2 hours

Are you a tech leader who knows the value of peer connections but finds yourself hesitating to reach out? Do you see others effortlessly building powerful networks while you struggle to move beyond surface-level interactions?

Stop struggling with shallow networking events and start building relationships that matter.

Leave with practical tools and renewed confidence to create a network that genuinely supports your leadership journey.

In this workshop you will

• Master the mindset shift that makes connecting with peers feel natural and purposeful
• Learn battle-tested techniques to transform brief encounters into meaningful relationships
• Develop a personalized action plan to build and nurture your professional network
• Gain confidence in both online and in-person networking scenarios
• Practice real-world networking strategies in a supportive, low-pressure environment

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for leaders who want to build a network that is a force multiplier for their career.

Meet your expert facilitators

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  Joel Chippindale

  Joel is a CTO Coach who supports talented leaders to accelerate their development both 1-1 and in groups.

  He is also an experienced facilitator and has built a career out of helping people think more clearly and have better conversations together in the 20 years that he has spent leading teams.

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  Francis Lacoste

  Francis coaches CTOs and VPEs to become leaders who nurture amazing engineering cultures.

  Before coaching, he spent over twenty-five years in the open-source and cloud developer tools industry. First, as a software engineer, then as an engineering leader at Canonical, Heroku, and Salesforce where he built successful high-performance remote engineering teams.

Book this workshop

If you want us to run this workshop for you or some of your teams then let's talk.

This workshop can be stand-alone, or be included as part of an away day, or form part of a wider programme of development or change.

This workshop can be customised to meet the specific needs of you and your teams and can be run online or in person.