Michelle Heffron’s Post

Couldn't attend #LeadDevLondon this year? #Karat Principal Developer Advocate Jason Wodicka has got you covered with top takeaways from four memorable sessions that agree: No matter how #tech or #AI evolves, humans are central to engineering management and leadership. 💡 David Yee of The New York Times discussed navigating uncertainty using guiding principles. 💡 Cat Hicks, PhD of Pluralsight shared her work on discovering what sets effective teams apart from the rest. 💡 Serah Njambi Kiburu of Spotify shared how to make accessibility in design sustainable. 💡David Kiger of Yelp explored the reality of exit plans and how to have those conversations within your organization.

Please allow me to individually honor Pluralsight brand team members impacted by this week's restructure. Great talent for hire on this list: In 2021 Lindsay Bayuk and I were tasked with "winning hearts and minds of technologists" and bringing more awareness to the brand and we strategized and built a rockstar team of Developer Advocates under the leadership of Aisha Blake and the OG PS advocate Jeremy Morgan. I was privileged to welcome and lead additional Gurus onto the team Mattias Andersson, David Neal, Scott Pletcher and the hilarious "Lama King" himself Lars Klint - July marks the end of the formal DevRel team at Pluralsight but the impact these individuals have had and the role they play in the community will live on forever. Any DevRel team or marketing/engineering team looking for high-energy, cerebral and wicked smart technologists who are as good at explaining technical topics as they are doing them should hit this group up. When you reach the size of PS, your in-house creative team is kicking out a lot - I mean A LOT of creative assets. You need three things to survive. Strong processes, solid systems AND an incredible creative production team. If you're looking to improve efficiency and cross-functional collaboration you should snatch up Lauren Williamson or Chantel P.s as quick as you can! We had been working really hard at Pluralsight to become masters of short form video production and two of my highly trained content ninjas are now available for hire in Wayne Nilsson and Stephen Callaghan - don't sit on talking to them. Makenzie Ward just led the content development, writing and creation of two high performing content assets for us in the State of MultiCloud and State of Cloud reports. What I love about Kenzie is her ability to let the designers have a lot of liberty in the publication design which any team would love. Silvia Cristina Higareda and I had built an incredible - young and scrappy Social media team and Tom Hitz and Morgan Schilke have all the skills to run an incredible organic/paid social strategy at any organization large or small. Silvia's playbook is awesome and these two would bring great value to and social team! If you're looking to drive engagement start here. I also can't thank Veronica-Sierra Gibson and Kirrie Rodgers enough for their contributions to our team! Sometimes being a young designer on a big team is a thankless job but these two got work done, were easy to do business with, with incredible attitudes. Thank you both and I hope your portfolios are stronger because of your time at Pluralsight. Across the business there are incredible Product Marketers, Engineers, Demand Marketers, Program managers, Developers and Strategists who, while not mentioned here, should be celebrated and shouted out for their roles and contributions to the brand. THANK YOU! Feel free to add yourself or an impacted team member in comments for reach Shoutout to Sapphire Reels for inspiring this post