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Elevate Your Team's Potential with Anjuan Simmons! Tech leader and Agile expert driving innovation and diversity in organizations.
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Anjuan Simmons is a highly accomplished technology expert and a sought-after keynote speaker. With a background that includes leadership roles at top companies like Accenture, Deloitte, and Infosys, Anjuan brings a wealth of experience to the table.
He started his journey in technology with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin and furthered his education by earning an MBA from Texas A&M University. Anjuan’s peers recognized his leadership qualities when he was chosen as the Student Speaker during his graduation.
Currently, as a software project manager and Certified Scrum Master in a leading construction software company, Anjuan excels in delivering technology solutions that cover everything from user interfaces to databases.
What makes Anjuan stand out is his passion for diversity, leadership, and Agile software development. He’s a captivating speaker who can engage and educate audiences effectively. His keynotes provide actionable insights and practical advice, empowering teams to embrace Agile practices, drive innovation, and promote inclusivity.
Anjuan is also the author of “Minority Tech: Journaling Through Blackness and Technology,” which explores important topics related to Blackness, technology, diversity, and leadership.
When you book Anjuan as a keynote speaker, your organization gains access to a speaker who can inspire positive change. He equips teams with the tools and inspiration needed to navigate the ever-changing tech world, foster diversity, and drive innovation. Anjuan’s commitment to excellence, combined with his industry knowledge and thought leadership, ensures that your event will be impactful and memorable.
See keynotes with Anjuan SimmonsFrom implementing enterprise applications at Accenture in the 1990s to my current role as a Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub, I’ve learned several essential lessons about the software industry. These lessons were often learned the hard way as an individual contributor and as an engineering manager. I’ve often wondered what I would say to myself if I could go backwards in time and help past versions of myself become compatible with what I know now. This talk is that conversation. Attendees will learn how to better guide their own careers in software development today from the things I wish I knew in the past.
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Privilege is access to societal and economic benefits based on characteristics you possess. The most well understood forms of privilege are birth privileges like racial, gender, and physical privilege, but there are also selected privileges like religion, education, and career.
This session will teach attendees how to lend their privilege. They will learn the various types of privilege lending including credibility lending (where you provide visibility to someone without privilege), access lending (where you provide access to someone without privilege), and expertise lending (where you provide a voice to someone without privilege). These different types of privilege lending will be illustrated through well known examples and an explanation of how they can be applied.
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