Tanzu Executive Series
August 31, 2021
1:00PM - 2:30PM EST
1:00PM - 2:30PM EST
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Event Overview
Before we code with the flow at SpringOne on September 1-2, we want to go deep on digital empathy and the developer experience. So we’re getting together a group of leaders to add another building block to your digital transformation journey. That’s right: The Tanzu Executive Series is back! Join us on August 31 for a custom, hands-on workshop led by bestselling author and digital empathy expert, Erica Dhawan.
More than ever, we live in a world of endless meetings, emails, and constant cross-team dysfunction, duplication, and delays. Ambiguous text messages. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of, “Oops...sorry, no, you go” and “Can you hear me?!” Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other? Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible—or are they? In this interactive workshop, Erica Dhawan will introduce you to the key skills of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language, which make up critical ways to deepen empathy as leaders, for the developer experience, and across silos in our organizations.
In person, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod, and make eye contact to show we listen and care. Online, reading carefully is the new listening; writing clearly is the new empathy. And a phone or video call is worth a thousand emails. In this workshop, Erica Dhawan, author of the new book, Digital Body Language, will supercharge your leadership and teams with collectively understood rules that foster connection, build trust, and drive innovation.
In person, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod, and make eye contact to show we listen and care. Online, reading carefully is the new listening; writing clearly is the new empathy. And a phone or video call is worth a thousand emails. In this workshop, Erica Dhawan, author of the new book, Digital Body Language, will supercharge your leadership and teams with collectively understood rules that foster connection, build trust, and drive innovation.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand your collaboration style and the digital empathy signals (or lack of) you may be broadcasting (even if you don't intend to!)
- Create cultures of true cross silo collaboration across email, phone, IM, text, video, and even hybrid meetings
- Develop a collaboration strategy that fosters valuable relationships, as leaders, with developers and across all business functions
- End cultures of useless meetings, missed deadlines, and digital misunderstandings
Agenda (Timezone: EST)
| 1:00–1:15 | Welcome & Introductions to Digital Body Language & why it matters in fostering empathy as leaders with Erica Dhawan |
| 1:15–1:30 | Interactive Exercise: Digital Empathy & Body Language for the Developer Experience |
| 1:30–1:50 | Best Practices on Fostering Empathy as leaders, across developers and across silos |
| 1:50-2:20 | Empathy Commitments Exercise: share ways of working that will foster empathy cultures across all stakeholder networks |
| 2:20-2:30 | Closing Discussion with Sumit Dhawan & Wrap Up |
Speakers
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Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. It’s 2021, the world of business is increasingly digital and work practices have changed at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wall Street Journal. Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TEDx and for companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, SAP, and Cisco. She has degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School.
Learn more at ericadhawan.com |
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As President of VMware, Sumit Dhawan leads the company’s go-to-market functions including WW Sales, Strategic Corporate Alliances, Customer Experience and Success (CXS), Global Industries, Marketing, and Communications. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of building and running market-leading businesses. He is a strong advocate for delivering an exceptional experience to customers and partners, and for supporting diverse teams, inclusive cultures and equitable environments that encourage the best in everyone. Sumit previously served as VMware’s Chief Customer Experience Officer, managing global teams responsible for professional services, technical support and customer success. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Instart, a startup delivering innovations in web application performance and security services. Before leading Instart, Sumit served as the general manager of VMware’s End-User Computing business, establishing the company’s leadership in mobile and unified endpoint management and desktop virtualization. He has also held a number of executive roles at Citrix spanning the engineering, product development, marketing, and general management functions. Sumit holds an MBA from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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