Kwame Thomison's guest appearances

Kwame Thomison

Geeks Who Lead Podcast (formerly CTO Connection)

Legacy Code Rocks

The Retro

Dalia Havens

Rob Zuber

Claudius Mbemba

Andrea Goulet

Justin Dean

Jerod Santo

Bryan Liles

Ian Bernstein

Scott Parker

Julien Lemoine

Ryan Oelke

Michael Feathers

Woody Zuill

Clay Collins

Dave Zwieback

OwlTail

Learning doesn’t end once you’ve earned your degree. Developers and engineers must stay up to date with their skills and emerging technologies. But most of the time, employees are expected to take on this additional learning on their own.Our guest this week on CTO Connection is Kwame Thomison, a consultant and leadership coach formerly of Meebo, Facebook, and Asana. Kwame discusses different learning models that can be integrated into workplaces to create a strong culture of learning and collaboration. He talks to Peter about the difference between high learners and light learners, and a framework for value creation.[01:27] - Becoming a force multiplier[05:11] - Differences in culture &amp; experience[08:13] - Facebook in the early days[10:00] - Finding balance at Asana[11:54] - The rewarding demands of consulting[13:40] - Heavy vs. light learners[15:01] - Communities of practice[22:04] - Learning guilds[25:40] - Project guilds[28:18] - Tips for growing a learning cultureSpecial thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to aws-cto-program@amazon.com if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.CTO Connection is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Learning doesn’t end once you’ve earned your degree. Developers and engineers must stay up to date with their skills and emerging technologies. But most of the time, employees are expected to take on this additional learning on their own.Our guest this week on CTO Connection is<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamethomison/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Kwame Thomison</a>, a consultant and leadership coach formerly of Meebo, Facebook, and Asana. Kwame discusses different learning models that can be integrated into workplaces to create a strong culture of learning and collaboration. He talks to Peter about the difference between high learners and light learners, and a framework for value creation.<ul><li>[01:27] - Becoming a force multiplier</li><li>[05:11] - Differences in culture &amp; experience</li><li>[08:13] - Facebook in the early days</li><li>[10:00] - Finding balance at Asana</li><li>[11:54] - The rewarding demands of consulting</li><li>[13:40] - Heavy vs. light learners</li><li>[15:01] - Communities of practice</li><li>[22:04] - Learning guilds</li><li>[25:40] - Project guilds</li><li>[28:18] - Tips for growing a learning culture</li></ul>Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to <a href="mailto:aws-cto-program@amazon.com">aws-cto-program@amazon.com</a> if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.<a href="https://www.ctoconnection.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CTO Connection</a> is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2N0b2Nvbm5lY3Rpb24%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3GKpjcEH3ydikWnDDDBpLv?si=vm0dges2QiKoLehoFAR24g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>. It really helps others find the show.<a href="https://www.dante32.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast episode production by Dante32.</a>

Continuous Learning in Engineering with Kwame Thomison

The easiest way to make your team members feel happy is to give them a sense of personal growth. By expanding their capacities, they exponentially increase the productivity of the team while strengthening their own sense of purpose. On today’s episode, we chat with Kwame Thomison. After a decade building software and software teams for companies like Facebook and Asana, Kwame set out as a leadership coach and founded his company, Magnetic, to help other teams build and sustain social learning cultures. When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to visit Kwame's web-site at https://magnetic-inc.com and connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.  Mentioned in this episode: Kwame on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamethomison/ Kwame on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KwameMagnetic Magnetic at https://magnetic-inc.com  Asana at https://asana.com LinkedIn Learning’s 2019 Workplace Learning Report at  https://learning.linkedin.com/resources/workplace-learning-report 

The easiest way to make your team members feel happy is to give them a sense of personal growth. By expanding their capacities, they exponentially increase the productivity of the team while strengthening their own sense of purpose. On today’s episode, we chat with Kwame Thomison. After a decade building software and software teams for companies like Facebook and Asana, Kwame set out as a leadership coach and founded his company, Magnetic, to help other teams build and sustain social learning cultures. When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to visit Kwame's web-site at <a href="https://magnetic-inc.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://magnetic-inc.com</a> and connect with him on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamethomison/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/KwameMagnetic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.  Mentioned in this episode: Kwame on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamethomison/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwamethomison/</a> Kwame on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/KwameMagnetic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KwameMagnetic</a> Magnetic at <a href="https://magnetic-inc.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://magnetic-inc.com</a> Asana at <a href="https://asana.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://asana.com</a> LinkedIn Learning’s 2019 Workplace Learning Report at <a href="https://learning.linkedin.com/resources/workplace-learning-report" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://learning.linkedin.com/resources/workplace-learning-report</a>

Social Learning Programs with Kwame Thomison