Howdy folks. Question for some of our more senior members: What leadership roles have you seen your best peers move into as their career advanced? What skills or experiences did they have to go through to advance to that level?

Upskilling obviously would be required to expand outside of just a SF focus, but is there any sort of glass ceiling you've seen applied to people with our niche?

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One of my buddy went to Head of cloud practice at one of the consulting firm. He was doing architecture, program management and P&L

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Seen people move to delivery /practice lead roles at consulting companies.

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Seems like consulting practice leadership is the consensus so far! Makes sense, but I do hope there are some examples of people thriving in senior leadership on the industry side as well.

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