Aliona Sosunova is a Director of Engineering at Vinted and the Founder of Tech Kinship, a community that strives to unite all and any humans in the tech world towards the pursuit of emotional and professional growth.

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SOCIAL:

- LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/coach-lt

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CHAPTERS:

(0:00) Intro

(0:40) What's up?

(2:13) Is Aliona a developer?

(11:33) Stable teams

(13:21) Mission-driven teams

(27:25) Opinion vs. expertise

(36:11) Obsession with processes

(37:24) Agile coaching

(42:50) Pseudocoaching

(45:43) Consulting vs. coaching

(51:17) Manager as a coach

(58:16) Coaching employees

(1:04:35) Coaching teams (I)

(1:07:25) Psychotherapy

(1:09:33) Coaching teams (II)

(1:15:11) "Tech Kinship"

(1:24:20) Diversity and inclusion

(1:37:56) Concluding remarks

(1:41:31) Outro