Lightning talk at Business of Software Conference 2016 on the importance of balancing being heads down with speaking up, teaching, and presenting.

1. Speak up & present!
Because your work can’t speak for itself
Poornima Vijayashanker
Founder of Femgineer
@poornima
Business of Software Conference
September 12, 2016

2. Heads down!

3. Getting passed up.

4. Speak UP!

5. Scary…

6. “I’m not an ‘expert’”…

7. Your work won’t speak up.

8. Someone is always a beginner.

9. Effective form of learning.

10. Experience & perspective.Learn from your mistakes.

11. Experience & perspective.Fast-track their learning.

12. Experience & perspective.The Inventory Method

13. Experience & perspective.Power Pose

14. Experience & perspective.Speaking up makes a difference!