This session will cover Sammy’s 3-year journey of starting in a small company and building it to become a multi-award winning organisation recognised by AFR Best Places to Work in Technology, Best Practice in Diversity and Inclusion, Best Practice in Flexibility and Employer of Choice with Women in Technology.

0:00 | Intro
1:17 | What’s your message to devs?
2:06 | Diversity without tokenism?
3:53 | What is “Glue Work”?
5:23 | What are you proud of?
6:46 | How do you create inclusivity?

Textio Report on performance feedback: https://textio.com/blog/job-performan…

Tanya Reilly on “Glue Work”: https://noidea.dog/talks

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Sammy Herbert – https://twitter.com/SammyHerbert
Head of Developer Experience – SixPivot

Sammy works with executives to redefine best practices for software developers in an Australian based consultancy specialising in .NET application development and cloud consulting.

Penny Walker – https://www.ssw.com.au/people/penny
SSW QLD State + International Manager

Penny is the SSW State Manager of Queensland and International clients. Operating from the SSW office in Brisbane CBD, Penny is in charge of looking after SSW’s global clients in the US, Europe, Asia, and beyond. Penny is an extremely driven problem solver, who loves to tackle a challenge. Thanks to Penny’s positive energy and strong people skills she is also the face of SSW recruitment. She seeks the best people to expand our awesome SSW family, and then helps them settle in with a unique, personal on-boarding experience.

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About the speakers

About the speakers

Sammy Herbert

Sammy works on everything to do with improving the developer experience from research, strategy, testing and trying again. Working a spectrum of initiatives from internal mentoring all the way to 4-day work weeks. Sammy and her work have consecutively been recognised in AFR's Best Places to Work in Technology and won numerous awards in employee flexibility and diversity & inclusion.

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