
Episode 7: Role models, restructuring and living in the future with Danielle Leong
Danielle Leong, a tremendous VP of Engineering and impressive portrait photographer, chats with me about what the importance of role modelling, the impact of restructuring and how managers of managers...
28 Okt 202346min

Episode 6: Evolving the EM role, goal setting and finding support as a manager of managers with Gabriel Michels
In this episode I chat to the Director of Engineering at Choco, Gabriel Michels, where he discusses the evolution of the EM role, where to get support as a managing of managers and setting appropriate...
14 Okt 202348min

Episode 5: More responsibility, less control and how the first team changes with Anita Singh
In this episode, I chat with Anita Singh, who stepped into a managing manager role at the rapidly growing ultrafast grocery delivery company Gorillas and shared her experience of this in a talk at Lea...
30 Sep 202341min

Episode 4: Hypergrowth leadership, the pendulum swing and attention management for managers with Phil Calçado
Episode description In this episode, I chat to an engineer director who has done the pendulum swing (from manager to individual contributor to back to being a manager), working in hypergrowth environm...
15 Sep 202350min

Episode 3: Global, remote management and the impact of coaching with Cate Huston
Episode description In this episode, I chat to an experienced engineering leader who has worked in a global, remote context managing other managers, has done formal co-active coaching training and dis...
13 Sep 202342min

Episode 2: From high-growth startup to high-growth Shopify with James Stanier
Episode description In this episode, I chat to the person who literally wrote a book on Engineering Management, about his journey into managing other managers in a high-growth startup, and the experie...
12 Sep 202351min

Episode 1: Welcome to the podcast
Welcome to the Managing Managers podcast. This short episode is an introduction to your host, Patrick Kua, for the podcast and the intention behind it. Transcript and show notes available here: https...
11 Sep 20231min



















