Building Skills and Creating Communities
summary
Built a community-based training program at AWS called Cloud Up that attracts 70,000 registered learners from 154 countries and a 20,000-member Slack; scaled local meetups from ~20 to 120 attendees and ran a 300-person IWD event. Frameworks include four community pillars (connection and value), a maturity model for L&D, and a skills guild approach. Practical tactics: 150 volunteer mentors running 30–45 minute weekly Q&A sessions, 8-week and flexible cohorts, 50% dropoff for free events, and a Hapori Wahine pilot that hit 500 signups, 240 Slack members, 50 F2F and 200 virtual attendees.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Start
- 1:29Creating Teams and Growing Communities
- 2:14Women Who Code Melbourne Committee
- 3:19Why Is this Topic Important
- 5:44Key Areas to Engagement
- 5:55Environment
- 8:12Hierarchive Needs
- 10:42Create Inclusive Spaces
- 12:40Name Tags
- 14:50Engage Sponsors for Venues
- 20:54Internal Skills and Capability Development
- 22:04State of the Workforce
- 22:23Training Return on Investment
- 23:23Budget Constraints
- 23:52Maturity Framework
- 27:52Gap Analysis
- 31:21Skills Guild
- 32:40Practical Work Experience
- 33:46Derek Bingham
- 34:35Program Structures
- 36:28Exam Preparation
- 36:53Celebrating Success in Milestones
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