Managing Managers16 Mar 2024

Episode 17: A unique leadership journey and avoiding swirl with Sally Lait

I have worked with so many people who have followed a non-traditional route into tech and so really enjoyed hearing Sally’s journey into tech and how she found herself managing other managers. Given her experience, it’s also great to understand how she leads and manages areas of tech that are beyond her own individual contributor experience and love the concept of swirl and to be wary of this as a manager of managers.

Guest Biography

Sally Lait is an Engineering Director for Trust & Safety at Bumble Inc. – encouraging kind connections that demonstrate integrity, equality, confidence, and respect during all stages of any relationship, through our apps like Bumble Date, Bumble For Friends, Badoo, Fruitz, Official etc. Prior to that she’s been VP of Engineering at Farewill, led engineering in Operations and Financial Crime as well as Monzo’s web discipline, ran a digital transformation consultancy, and worked for a global digital agency. What’s really important to Sally is building a strong culture, and creating supportive and inclusive environments for people and teams to thrive and do fantastic technical work. She’s a strong advocate for building software and teams alike with empathy, responsibility, and accessibility in mind.

Social links:

Website - https://sallylait.com/
Mastodon - ⁠https://mastodon.social/@sally
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallylait/

Transcript and show notes available here: ⁠⁠⁠https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-017-sally-lait/⁠

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