Jan Cerny
CEO @ Applifting
After over a decade in classic top-down management, Jan decided it was time for a change. Having served as an Engineering Manager and Department Lead, he brought his experience to Applifting three years ago. Today, as CEO, he’s on a mission to blend the best of both worlds: structure and scalability, while keeping the spirit of Teal organizations.
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Main Stage
Confessions of a Teal CEO: What We Learned While Scaling Freedom
What’s it actually like to run a major IT firm without the traditional hierarchy? In this session, we’ll peel back the curtain on Applifting’s Teal journey. You’ll discover:
Teal in the Wild: Which self-management principles actually stick, and how they’ve transformed our team’s daily life.
The Engineering Manager’s Survival Kit: How Teal concepts can solve the classic "bottleneck" frustrations of your traditional management.
The Brutal Truth: We’re skipping the PR talk—let's discuss the real pitfalls of Teal and how we navigate them when things get messy.
The Growth Paradox: How we scaled a "freedom-based" culture without losing our soul (or our sanity) along the way.
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