Community of Practice for Product Engineering Leaders

Collective brain power to solve your hardest challenges

Our community of practice is where leaders come together to work on real problems. Leaders share their challenges and experiences, reflect on setbacks, and collaboratively explore new possibilities.

Reduce risk by exposing your blind spots

Professional development as a leader or executive can be very hard to get within the organisation. And it is often pretty pricey with advice that is too generic because it has to cover a wide audience.

Sessions like these enable growth that's good for you and your organisation. Our community of Practice provides you with a small group and you are working through real, specific and immediate pain points. You are addressing actual challenges at work, gaining ideas from peers from other companies, and building a support network of trusted peers. Fresh insight from an external perspective helps you reduce risk by exposing your blind spots.

How does it work?

Each week, we explore individual challenges in guided group discussions. We understand that everyone has very busy schedules, and thus our community of practice program is structured to provide you maximum learning with very little investment outside of the weekly sessions.

The process leans into dialogue and reflection, rather than instruction. We come up with ideas and find answers together. The structure ensures that everyone has the opportunity to not just address their challenges, but also support peers resolving their own.

What we ask

Show up for the full duration of each session
Be willing to give before you get
Provide us with feedback along the way
Like all our events, this workshop is covered by our code of conduct and joining us assumes your agreement to be bound by the code.

I only wish I got to experience this at many more points in my career. From the format and facilitation to the diversity of experiences and ideas from the group; I felt safe, heard, understood and valued. Every session gave insights that will be useful well into the future.
Kayt Edwards

I was part of a cohort of technical leaders for the Community of Practice over five weeks and it was one of the best leadership development initiatives that I've ever done. Real problem-solving, diverse perspectives and exposure to techniques from a really qualified group of people. The format was super engaging over Zoom. Keeping it virtual meant it was able to fit better with working from home. Elle and Lachlan were really insightful and did a great job providing psychological safety for us to be vulnerable. If I had the chance, I'd do this every 6 months.
Franca Moretto , Engineering Manager at SEEK

Logistics

Format:

A 30-minute individual chat to set expectations and identify challenges to bring to the group.
Five consecutive weeks of 1.5 hour online sessions.
8 participants, with a maximum of one person per company to maximise breadth of input.
- If more than one person from a company is interested, we will organise them into separate cohorts.

Cost:

$1,200 AUD plus GST

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We match you with a suitable cohort of peers using your role and company details.

"Talking out problems in groups of smart capable people is awesome."

"How nice it must be to have people spend time trying to help you solve a problem. As leaders we spend so much time solving other people's problems. It is almost healing!"

"Thank you to this group using some of the collective brain power to help me with my problem. I honestly really appreciate it."

"Even when we feel clear about the picture there is always more/different perspectives. So good this group can provide that. It's a wonder anyone can solve anything well on their own."

"Elle and Lachlan are :chef's kiss: facilitators."

"What an amazing group! Wow!"

"We all have such diverse experience. I love hearing about the pros and cons of start-up/scale-up life."

"This session has made me look forward to presenting my own problem to the group."

"Everyone's advice is so helpful, I don't want this to end! 😁"

"Was able to relate to both challenges. I wish I had this type of advice back then."

"Sometimes the questions and answers make me think of some of my own situations and it's great to get my own takeaways."

"It's easy to forget all the good practices that we know when we are in the depth of the situation. So good to be reminded of them all."

Community of Practice members