Scott Drake
Technology Executive, Founder at JumpCoach.com
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
After seeing several high-performing software teams fall apart due to culture and fit issues, Technology Executive Scott Drake set out to find a better way to assemble and lead tech teams. When he couldn't find a way, he embarked on a five-year research project and invented one. Today, Scott is the Founder and Executive Director at JumpCoach, a social enterprise that helps organizations assemble high-impact teams based on their real-world needs and grow leaders that keep people happy, engaged, and challenged.
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More Than Pretty Code: Advance Your Career by Leveling Up Your Mindset
Attitude is everything. Unfortunately, the attitude that makes you a great early-career technologist will hold you back as you move into senior technical roles or leadership positions. This session explores research by Google and other organizations about what makes a great senior technologist and leader. Here's a hint: It's not your technical knowledge or functional expertise.
After this session, you'll:
1. Understand the well-studied stages of mindset advancement.
2. Be able to observe your behaviors and thinking patterns in the context of these stages.
3. Recognize which thoughts and behaviors are helpful for a role player but will become challenging for senior roles.
4. Have a toolbox for leveling up your thinking.
Do you want to advance your career and open new doors? This session will help you.
A Simple Hack from Neuroscience that will Make You a Happier Employee and Better Teammate
Your human brain judges everything as a threat or reward. Your reflexive, unconscious response is to move away from threats and move towards rewards. This assessment happens for every interaction and activity, including in the workplace. When your brain perceives a threat, your cognitive resources are diminished, performance declines, and you become unhappy and less motivated. When your brain stays neutral or perceives a reward, you are happier and more motivated.
After this entertaining and thought-provoking session, you'll:
1. Know the five types of workplace situations that trigger this threat or reward circuitry.
2. Be able to analyze why an event made you happy or stressed.
3. Respond better in situations that may cause you stress.
4. Know how to interact with others in ways that keep them out of the threat zone.
This session gives you a forever tool that belongs in every employee's and modern leader's toolbox.
Fixing Tech Hiring: An Innovative Tool for Job Seekers and Hiring Managers
When hiring goes well, the results are magic. The team is happy, healthy, engaged, and produces high value. When it goes wrong, it can be destructive and waste salaries, recruiting fees, time, and opportunity.
The problem is that too many job seekers and hiring managers get it wrong. Job seekers choose the wrong jobs for the wrong reasons. Hiring managers put candidates through sometimes toxic gauntlets that produce bad results and don't reflect the culture or values of the organization.
This session will help you get it right. It introduces a four-faceted scorecard that helps you think bigger than skills, pay, and perks. It enables both sides of the table to understand what the other side wants and needs and be more honest about what they can provide. Also, it will help both sides be more strategic about what to learn and explore in the interview process.
It's time to fix hiring in tech. After this session, you'll have a tool that will help you become part of the solution.
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