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Don’t promote your best coders to managers with Hazel Olivier, Nimbla | TLH Fintech #3

The path of a tech leader is riddled with tough decisions. How to structure your teams? What goals to set, and how to communicate them? What style of management will help your teams do their best work? 

Our next guest on Tech Leaders Hub Fintech brings a wealth of experience to help you answer such questions—and become a leader who gets extraordinary results. 

Hazel Olivier is a tech leader with over 30 years of experience in the field, 10 of which she spent as CTO at companies big and small. 

She’s currently the CTO of Nimbla, a UK insurtech changing the face of invoice insurance. 

We covered:

– Why the common logic leaders apply to promoting people is wrong

– The importance of performance reviews

– How to set goals that will get your teams fired up

– What tech leaders can do to better support each other

– The particular perks and challenges of being a tech leader at a UK insurtech company

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