Scaling Leadership
for Success and Impact
Whether you are on the IC or Management track, when organizations go from 0 - 1000s, your leadership style needs to evolve.
Dive deep into the nuances of leadership evolution, exploring how it can be effectively scaled to drive organizational growth and create lasting impact. Gain insights from seasoned leaders who've walked the path, and learn strategies to amplify leadership roles for transformative outcomes.
Hassan Sharif
Claire Hough
Michael Lopp
Bavyaa Vasudevan
About Claire Hough
As CTO of Getlabs, Claire leads product, design, and engineering bringing over 25 years of experience as a technology leader. She has helped over a half dozen companies grow and scale to deliver impact-driving products and services, including Carbon Health, Udemy, Netscape, Napster, and Nextag. Claire was named in the Forbes CIO Next List in 2022, recognizing 50 top tech leaders who help shape the future of business and drive game-changing innovation. She is a Limited Partner at Operative Collective.
About Michael Lopp
Michael is a veteran Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and products at historic companies such as Slack, Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple. When he’s not deeply concerned with staying relevant, he writes about leadership, bridges, superheroes, and humans at the popular weblog Rands in Repose. He currently works at Apple. This is the way.
Michael has written three books. His first book “Managing Humans” now in its 4th edition, is a popular guide to the art of leadership and clearly explains that while you will be rewarded for what you build, your success is only because of your people. His second book, "Being Geek" is a career handbook for geeks and nerds alike. Michael's third book, Small Things, Done Well, explains how focusing on the small parts of leadership is critical to becoming a better leader.
Michael rides bikes which each have names, wonders about semicolons, drinks red wine, and tries to understand how forests work amongst the redwoods of Northern California because curiosity is how you grow.
About Hassan Sharif
With over 25 years of multi-industry experience, his areas of expertise include cost reduction, IT digital transformation, cloud migration, operational efficiency, systems modernization, disruptive innovations, customer experience, product development, optimizing technology structures, risk investment prioritization, business development, running large consulting practices and cultural change management.
Shaping the technology function in diverse organizations — ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups and fast-growth companies — he has demonstrated expertise in technology architecture, security, risk, compliance, business development, consulting, enterprise programs, and other critical areas.
His experience includes managing elite, nimble teams (as small as 6 professionals) to large-scale, enterprise teams of over 1,200 IT professionals in private, not-for-profit, for profit, and multiple enterprises.
About Bavyaa Vasudevan
Bavyaa is Head of Engineering at Point overseeing all of Product Engineering, Security and IT. She is also a member of the Executive team at Point. Prior to this, Bavyaa was Sr Director, Engineering at Salesforce, where she was overseeing product engineering across multiple product pillars within Field Service Lightning. Bavyaa has held leadership and engineering roles, building out scalable user interfaces at Symphony Communications, Cisco, VMWare and several other startups. She is passionate about building high performing organizations and creating a culture that helps people bring out their authentic self! Bavyaa is an active mentor at several platforms including SheTO. She has also been a panelist in multiple workshops and conferences - focused on engineering leadership. She holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Computer Science.
Outside of work, Bavyaa spends time with her young daughters Laya and Meera along with their 9 year old golden retriever. She loves travel and music.