Maureen Carruthers
Leadership Speaker & Coach, Nonviolent Leadership
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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Maureen Carruthers is a leadership and systems coach who helps tech teams reduce friction, improve collaboration, and navigate the invisible complexity middle managers wade through everyday. A former Support leader at Automattic—where she guided fully distributed, engineering-adjacent teams—Maureen brings a decade of experience translating vague strategy into real, sustainable results. Her work centers on demystifying the human parts of systems so middle managers in tech can lead as well as they program.
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About my session: Debugging Human Systems
Debugging human systems explores what every new tech leader eventually discovers: humans don’t behave like clean, deterministic code. When you move from writing software to leading the people who write it, you’re no longer working outside the system, you’re inside it, shaping the very conditions your team responds to.
In this session, we’ll use familiar engineering concepts, systems thinking, libraries, tech stacks and debugging, to demystify team dynamics. You’ll learn why emotions are unavoidable features of human systems, how invisible emotional “processes” hog resources when ignored and how to work with these signals to improve collaboration, trust and performance.
You’ll leave with a practical framework that helps you see how the human system actually functions and how much agency you have to shape it.
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