Keynote Speaker
Adelina Chalmers 2023 Speech Titles
- "I'm not a jerk" ... And Other Reasons Why Engineering Leaders Worry About Doing Performance Management
- The Thinking Chasm Between CTOs and CEOs
- The Top 5 Mistakes CTOs Make
- Why Engineers Distrust Leadership
- Three Signs That You Use Your Engineering Department As A Software House
- Unappreciated for Being Honest - Why Most CTOs Shy Away From Conflict
- The Boffin Fallacy
- Why Most Leadership Training Sucks!
- How to Prove Others They Are Wrong... And Other Ways I Got Engineers Engaged With Soft Skills Training
- The Geek in the C Suite and Why Your Company Depend on Them
Adelina Chalmers's Biography
Adelina Chalmers D.P.S.I., Dip H.E. cuts straight to the heart of the matter when advising Chief Technology and Science Officers in tech companies. She focuses entirely on the most pressing issues in the business and usually adds a minimum of $1million worth of value to each company with which she works. She has been working since 2011 with science and technology companies from 50 to 110,000 staff on communication, leadership and strategic challenges.
She won Cofinitive's Top 7 People to Watch 2019 with her business, The Geek Whisperer®. She was nominated on Computer Weekly’s Most Influencing Women in IT list in 2021 and won her place in the top 50 Most Influential Women in Tech in 2022. She has worked with scientists and engineers from Software Engineer to CEO/CSO/CTO who work for: Fujitsu, ARM, Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, Compare the Market, Microsoft and hundreds of scale-ups.