The Human Scalability Problem: Why Your Teams Don’t Scale Like Your Code

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In tech, we know how to scale systems; but humans? That’s another story. This keynote explores why technical teams struggle to scale behaviorally and culturally, even when processes and tools are in place. Drawing from organizational psychology, we’ll look at the hidden limits of communication, collaboration, and trust in growing tech environments and what to do about them. If you’re adding more engineers, teams, or global locations, this talk will help you identify and fix the human bottlenecks before they break your system.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the difference between system scalability and human scalability
  • Spot early warning signs of team misalignment and burnout
  • Learn psychological tools to support team cohesion and healthy growth
  • Gain strategies for strengthening team dynamics across distributed environments

Speaker

Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg

Co-founder of @Bravely | Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker | 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders

Charlotte is a Business Psychologist, trainer and coach specialized in the people aspect at Tech companies. She has +13 years experience in facilitating healthy cultures to enable high performing teams and leaders.  She is Co-founder of Bravely: the training and coaching solution for Tech Companies. Bravely’s mission is to bring empathy back into the workplace.

Charlotte’s passion is helping companies to build a strong and resilient culture in an ever-changing environment; a culture that is both performance driven and people focused. She has supported +50 international Start-up and Scale-up companies in their growth, some examples include Bynder, Datasnipper and Wetransfer.

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