Meri Williams
CTO, NED, Advisor, @Geek_Manager
CTO, NED, Advisor, @Geek_Manager
Experienced CTO with a track record of leading and scaling technology organisations across medtech, fintech, government, ecommerce, telco, and manufacturing. Skilled in building high-performing teams, transforming delivery, and running always-on, business-critical operations.
Author, international speaker, and co-curator of The Lead Developer conference series (London, New York, Berlin, San Francisco). Creator of the Be a Brilliant People Developer workshop, helping technologists become exceptional managers and coaches.
Available for coaching
Meri WilliamsEpisodes featuring Meri Williams
Episode 20
The Six Skills Every Technical Leader Must Master
See exactly where you stand, and what to do next.
Meri Williams explains the six core skills for technical leadership. Learn how to assess your capabilities, map role expectations, and plan your career toward engineering director or CTO roles.
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The Career Vectors Framework
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Map your technical leadership skills, identify development areas, and compare roles with Meri Williams’ Career Vectors Framework — a clear tool for engineers, managers, directors, and CTOs.
A practical tool to understand what your role really needs, and how your strengths measure up.
Meri Williams’ Career Vectors Framework gives you a clear, visual way to map six core dimensions of technical leadership: hands-on tech depth, tech strategy, delivery, organisational leadership, commercial understanding, and domain expertise.
Whether you’re stepping into a new role, aiming for the next one, or trying to understand why your current job feels harder than it should, this framework shows you:
- where you’re a strong match
- where you’ll need to stretch
- where the role and your strengths don’t align
- how to have an honest, grown-up conversation with your manager or CEO about expectations
It also includes worked examples, comparing engineers with architects, EMs with software delivery managers, and more, so you can see how different roles take different shapes.
Download it, map your own vectors, and get a clearer view of your path forward.