YVONNE ENGBOM
AUTHOR, SPEAKER & WOMAN IN TECH
MY NEW BOOK
In a competitive engineering environment, focusing solely on problem-solving and efficiency risks neglecting reflection and may lead to an overly commanding approach. This book offers 33 practical leadership practices based on real-life experience, emphasizing trust, setting high expectations, and safeguarding team well-being.
EMPATHIC LEADERSHIP
PLAYCARDS
Use the play cards to facilitate a discussion about how to practice empathic leadership!
There are 33 play cards, one for each Practice in the book.
Play instructions:
Draw a card from the card set.
Discuss the purpose of the practice and how it is useful in your context.
To go deeper on the topic, read more in the corresponding chapter in the book.
Draw the next card and do the same.
Enjoy!
ABOUT YVONNE ENGBOM
Yvonne Engbom is a senior engineering leader, with working experience for more than 30 years, leading large organizations in the technology space. She is passionate about creating business impact through safety, empathy, and humanness. She is experienced in leading, teaching, facilitating, and public speaking.
She has a Master's in Computer Science and Engineering and has been leading teams from small teams of 10 co-located people to large organizations of hundreds of people distributed internationally.
As a leader, you create impact through others. My leadership approach is to create impact through safety, empathy, and humanness. My leadership values are based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and use that as a model.
I always strive to create a culture where people feel safe and seen. This enables experimentation and collaboration to create business impact for the company and growth for the individual and team. I believe in teamwork and when you create something together with a colleague or friend in a trustful relationship, the results you create together are more innovative and accurate.
In my free time, I am a classical singer and sing both as a soloist and as a part of a chamber choir.
When making music together, it is obvious we depend on each other for the result.
Trust and belonging are key ingredients for an excellent result in all aspects of life.
Yvonne Engbom