Please join us on Friday October 16, 2026 for Super Cyber Friday.
Our topic of discussion will be “Hacking the Jump Into Cyber Leadership: An hour of critical thinking about how to gain the skills you need while you’re still a practitioner.”
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David Spark
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In preparation for our discussion, think about the following:
When you’re still deep in technical work, how do you get reps at the things that matter most in leadership without actually being in a leadership role?
Is the instinct to “get one more certification” before pursuing leadership actually useful, or is it a way of delaying a career move that scares you?
How do you know when you’re ready for a leadership role versus when you just want the title and the pay bump?
What’s the difference between a practitioner who’s developing into a leader and one who’s just become the senior person in the room?
When practitioners say they want to lead, how often do they mean they want authority over decisions versus they want to escape technical work they’ve stopped enjoying?
If your organization won’t give you leadership opportunities, is that a signal to leave, or is there something you can build without the title?
What’s the right relationship between mentorship and sponsorship when you’re trying to move up? Do most people confuse the two?
When you move into leadership, how do you stay credible to the people doing the hands-on work without pretending you’re still doing it too?
What’s the shelf life of your technical credibility after you stop doing technical work full-time, and how do you manage the decline without faking it?
It all starts at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. At the end of the hour [2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific] we’ll switch gears to our meetup where everyone will get a chance to chat face to face.
Can’t make it live on Friday? We’ll save the best parts for you.
Super Cyber Friday Express is the podcast version: the heart of the conversation, and takeaways you can actually use. It’s only 20 minutes and ready on Fridays after our live show. The shortened version of the show gets you the key points on demand, but the full experience only happens LIVE in the room.
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