About the EVENT
Catch up on-demand on this conversation where Adelina, CTO Advisor and Founder, The Geek Whisperer answered your questions about the Glass Cliff often faced by aspiring and ambitious female and minority CTOs.
First time CTOs and Women (and other minority groups) are more likely to be appointed to leadership positions during times of crisis or downturns, where the risk of failure is high.
That new CTO role could become your worst nightmare! We delved into the high expectations, limited support, scrutiny, and career impacts they endure.
Key discussion points include:
- Crisis Appointments: The heightened risks and challenges during financial, technological, or reputational crises.
- High Expectations with Limited Support: The pressure on first-time and women CTOs to rapidly turn around companies with fewer resources.
- Scrutiny and Pressure: The increased scrutiny, harsh judgement of failures, and reinforcement of stereotypes.
- Temporary Roles: The precarious nature of interim positions and the often unrecognised success.
- Aftermath and Career Impact: The severe blame for company failures and the long-term impact on career prospects.
Speakers
Adelina Chalmers
CTO Advisor and Founder, The Geek Whisperer
For over a decade Adelina has been teaching engineers how to pitch for investment for their startups and helped them secure millions of pounds (check her 250+ LinkedIn Recommendations) and helped engineers and CTOs in companies as small as 10 and as big as 100,000 to translate technical concepts into business goals.
Adelina was nominated on UK Computer Weekly’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech list in 2021 and won a place in the Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech in 2022 and 2023.
Since 2013 Adelina has been guest lecturing on the topics of: presenting for investment, building business cases and negotiation in the context of science and technology initiatives at Cambridge University.
Adelina has worked with scientists and engineers from Software Engineer all the way up to CEO/CSO/CTO who work for: Fujitsu, ARM, Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, Compare the Market, Microsoft and hundreds of scale-ups.
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