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This week we're joined by Ceri Newton-Sargunar, an expert behavioural coach who specialies in supporting engineering leaders transition from being a technical expert to an effective people manager.Key discussion points include:

The differences between Introversion vs Extroversion when exploring what makes successful leaders

How neurodiversity in Engineering leaders affects leadership effectiveness

The impact of raising self-awareness through coaching

Supporting Engineering leaders to improve their emotional awareness

New research that shows how our brain is actually growing right up until we die!

Referenced academic research:

Research paper: Personality Dimensions and Temperaments ofEngineering Professors and Students

The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering Student Performance and Attitudes

Guest BioCeri is a Behavioural Coach, an ex-teacher and a Neuroscientist-in-training, with just under a decade of hands-on agile experience. She enjoys putting research into practice with colleagues, agile coaches, technical leadership and her teams. She has worked in the public and private sector, with large organisations, SMEs and start-ups, and now coaches and trains agile teams and agile professionals looking to improve their ways of working.

Tea in-hand, she loves helping fellow professionals focus on, and make real strides with individuals and their interactions. Favourite pastimes include creating lightbulb moments, turning assumptions on their heads, and reading literally everything in front of her (because ADHD). Ceri also loves brains, but not in *that* way.To learn more about Ceri, feel free to connect with him via LinkedIn.

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