During this global crisis, we are not just managing remote teams; we are managing our teams. Join us to hear Diane Roberts share her perspective and best practices on managing a remote team during a time of national civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key topics may include:
- How do you create a culture of empathy?
- What tools for creating or continuing culture are still available when you can't travel?
- What suddenly matters to your team members now that they are at home all the time?
- How can you build on your relationships with your team members in ways you never could before?
- How does seniority distribution of your team matter more than ever before?
Featured Speaker: Diane Roberts • Director, Software Development & Site Lead, Boston at Sonos, Inc. and member of Tufts Gordon Institute Industry Advisory Council since October 2017
Diane Roberts is an experienced software leader running the Interaction Experience software development group at Sonos. She started at Sonos as a software engineer on a very small team. As the team grew, so did her experience through learning technologies and management skills. Now in addition to leading her software group, she is the Site Lead for the Boston office.
Diane has spent most of her career building software that gets as close to the user’s face as possible – she just loves working on the user experience. She has designed everything from entire applications to tiny subsystems, writing the code in whatever language fits the bill. In her current role, she leads a group made up of 4 cross-disciplinary teams which do mostly – but not exclusively – mobile app development. She and her teams are responsible for the Sonos apps found in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Amazon Appstore.
Diane is a guest lecturer for Real Industry, presenting on the general topic of “Software Engineering for Real” with deep dives and case studies covering a range of topics including team formation, interviewing techniques, code design, system design, product design, and design thinking. She has provided these lectures for Stanford University, University of Michigan, Tufts University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Diane received dual Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Music from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of the Tufts Gordon Institute Industry Advisory Council. Diane holds 6 granted patents as a co-inventor.
Discussion Moderator: Stacy Lennon • Founder & CEO of X Squared Consulting, Inc, Consultant at Vantage Partners, and Lecturer at Tufts Gordon Institute
Stacy Lennon is a negotiation and conflict management trainer, facilitator and coach with 20 years of experience in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America.
Since 1996, Stacy has designed and delivered customized learning initiatives around strategic negotiation, facilitation, consensus building, and difficult conversations. Recently Stacy founded X Squared Consulting, Inc. whose purpose is to support women working in STEM fields as well as the companies that employ them. Stacy's corporate clients have included Boeing, Capital One, Chevron, General Mills, Kraft, and Pixar, among others. She has worked with numerous international financial institutions and nonprofit organizations.
In the academic realm, Stacy teaches at the Tufts Gordon Institute. She has taught at Georgetown University Law Center and University of Massachusetts-Boston. Stacy was also a longtime teaching assistant at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Stacy holds a master's degree in international relations from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and Master of City Planning and Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT.
