About Hannah Browne
Hannah Browne is a technology leader, entrepreneur, Board Director, culture advocate and three-time National Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion. She recently won the 2023 WIICTA Entrepreneur Award, sits on the Board of Greenpeace Australia-Pacific and is scaling her fifth company, Midnyte City.
Since 2005 Hannah has worked on strategic transformation initiatives with start ups, scale ups and innovative enterprises; helping build high-performance teams, create dynamic, effective technology leaders and progressive, digital first, human-centric organisations. Her core skills are technology, leadership, culture, influencing for change and revenue generation.
In 2020 Hannah was appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the Board of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. She is thrilled to contribute her technology expertise to tackling climate change through governance and strategy at one of the world’s most recognisable environmental advocacy groups. This opportunity has sparked an interest in increasing technology capability in the Boardroom across the industry.
Midnyte City is a human-centric technology consultancy specialising in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Delivery Leadership and Software Development. We help businesses build and improve infrastructure, processes, delivery methods, products and services. Our differentiator is a deep commitment to developing and empowering the client teams we work with, teaching people to fish rather than catching fish for them.
Co-creating a human-centric company
This session is for leaders (and aspiring leaders) who build teams and organisations.
Hannah Browne will share how Midnyte City has empowered the entire team to craft and shape how the business functions. This novel model, giving Midnyte Citizens hands-on opportunities to research, define and implement how the organisation operates by opting in to initiatives aligned to their strengths and interests.
The approach, inspired by the governance model of working groups and subcommittees, was designed to endow each team with real world experience to define and implement various aspects of the growing business. The self-organising teams affect communication flows and ways of working, functioning as the engine that guides Midnyte City through the adoption of right-sized frameworks, models, processes and approaches. Most importantly, each initiative equips the team with the experience they want to gain building a business, aligned to passions and interests. Truly co-creating a human-centric company.
From corporates to startups, hierarchical or bureaucratic organisations to flat nimble structures and the scale-ups in between, you will leave this talk with a fresh perspective, new model to test and practical take-aways for fostering engaged teams, reducing attrition and adapting rapidly to new challenges and opportunities.