It’s been a while, let’s catch up.

Hello friends of Enrich,

It’s been a while! For some of you, so long that you might’ve forgotten about us. Allow me to re-introduce Enrich: we’re a community of product, operations and technical leaders. Our mission is to help leaders move through the world with self-assurance, clarity and confidence. We’re best known for our curated, thoughtful events.

This issue of our newseltter is designed to give you a peek into what’s happening at Enrich, invite you to upcoming open events, and share selected takeaways from the conversations we’re having. We’d love to welcome you into the community - if you’re interested in chatting about membership, you can apply here, and/or try us out by joining one of the events in this email.

Upcoming open events

These events are open to friends of Enrich, we’d love to see you there:

• What to do when feedback goes awry: join Jill Wetzler (Executive Coach & VP Engineering) to discuss tough performance conversations | December 16th at 12pm PT

• Scaling people: tactics for management and company building: fireside chat with Claire Hughes Johnson (COO, Stripe) and Roy Bahat (Head, Bloomberg Beta)| January 23rd at 1pm PT

Upcoming member events

Here’s a preview of some of the member events happening in the next few weeks:

• Comparing internal AI productivity tools: a conversation about the successes and failures you’ve had implementing AI into new and existing processes to increase productivity | December 4th at 10am PT

• CXO speed networking: connect with your peers through quick, timed conversations to foster new relationships and collaboration | December 11th at 12pm PT

• Evaluating CDPs: a conversation about the ideal process and criteria for evaluating CDPs | December 18th at 11am PT

• San Francisco CXOs dinner: connect with other execs (in person!) at a facilitated dinner| January 16th at 7pm

• NYC CXOs dinner: connect with other execs (in person!) at a facilitated dinner | January 21st at 7pm

News from Enrich

We have big things planned for this community - here’s a sneak preview:

💸 Introducing a lower price tier

🌎 Launching a new platform for async engagement

🎟️ Planning more events and event partnerships

Overheard at Enrich

Lastly, we wanted to share some free insights from three recent member events - hope this is helpful:

• Get that board seat: we convened women of Enrich in partnership with Riviera for a panel on how to take the next step in your career and join a board. Here’s what we learned:

  • Don’t worry about getting the “right” first board seat, just take the first one you get. You need one board seat to get another

  • Your job on a board is to NOT to give advice - but to follow the specific role of being a board member

  • It’s a big time commitment - expect to spend a couple days a month

• Implementing DORA/SPACE metrics: this was the second part of a discussion checking in on how implementation is going and talking through questions and challenges that have popped up. Here’s some advice:

  • Use DORA with some combination of developer satisfaction/well-being surveys

  • Frame these as team metrics rather than individual performance metrics to help with adoption and improve team collaboration

  • Cortex and Get DX are good tools to measure DORA/SPACE - the market is changing quickly!

• Founder/aspiring-founder networking: a speed networking event aimed at connecting members with fellow entrepreneurial peers. Here’s what they discussed:

  • Very hard to move from the mental handcuffs of the corporate world to the free world of your own thing. Need to retrain your mind to 'take action!"

  • Getting over imposter syndrome is hard. We all have it. Again, take action!

  • Ask the customer "will you pay more for this" when they request features. Helps to prioritize

  • Use Perplexity AI to write your deck narrative, Canva to design it, Gamma is also well recommended

Again, we’d love to get you involved - you can grab time to catch up here: book now.