S5E149 VIDEO🎙️ LIVE with Elisabeth Hendrickson

S5E149🎙️ LIVE with Elisabeth Hendrickson

Leadership & Success with Coach BZ | Season 5, Episode 149

Building Better Systems, Better Teams, and Better Leaders

📅 Thursday, July 9, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 1:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

I’m excited to welcome Elisabeth Hendrickson to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ!

Elisabeth is a technology executive, engineering leader, author, speaker, and founder of Curious Duck Digital Laboratory. With more than 30 years of experience in software engineering, quality, and organizational leadership, she has served as VP of R&D, VP of Engineering, and advisor to technology leaders building high-performing teams and sustainable engineering cultures.

Many in the technology community know Elisabeth as the author of the influential Explore It!, a landmark book on exploratory testing that continues to shape how software professionals think about quality and risk. She is also the co-author of the upcoming book Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking Tools to Unblock Software Delivery, which explores how leaders can identify the right signals, improve decision-making, and build organizations that deliver value predictably.

Whether you lead sailors, software engineers, cybersecurity teams, or enterprise organizations, Elisabeth’s leadership philosophy reminds us that technology is powered by people—and great systems enable great people to do their best work.

💡 What You Will Learn

✅ Why great leaders focus on systems instead of simply solving symptoms

✅ How to build engineering cultures rooted in trust, learning, and continuous improvement

✅ The difference between measuring activity and measuring meaningful progress

✅ Leadership lessons from Explore It! that apply far beyond software testing

✅ How systems thinking helps executives make better decisions in today’s AI-driven world

✅ Practical ways to improve collaboration, feedback loops, and organizational resilience

✅ Why better systems ultimately create better teams—and better leaders

As a cybersecurity executive and Information Warfare Commander in the U.S. Navy, I’m especially excited to explore how Elisabeth’s ideas on systems thinking apply not only to software engineering but also to cybersecurity, military leadership, and mission success.

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🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Have a question for Elisabeth? Post your leadership, engineering, quality, AI, or systems-thinking questions below—we’ll answer as many as we can LIVE!

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👇 Your Turn

➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’ll apply this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, engineering leader, cybersecurity professional, junior officer, or teammate who would benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

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