🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
29 Apr 2026
In this moment:
Nancy Kelln
We are incredibly excited to welcome Nancy Kelln to MoTaCon!
Nancy has spent years rescuing chaotic, politically tangled implementations, and she’s identified a 'hidden' set of superpowers that quality professionals develop in the heat of the moment.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- How to turn technical debt into business decisions
- Exposing blind spots before they become outages
- Leading teams that don't even talk to each other
- Managing panicked stakeholders when things go south
These aren't just soft skills, they are survival skills!
Register for MoTaCon today!
Nancy has spent years rescuing chaotic, politically tangled implementations, and she’s identified a 'hidden' set of superpowers that quality professionals develop in the heat of the moment.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- How to turn technical debt into business decisions
- Exposing blind spots before they become outages
- Leading teams that don't even talk to each other
- Managing panicked stakeholders when things go south
These aren't just soft skills, they are survival skills!
Register for MoTaCon today!
Diana Dromey
Events & Marketing Lead
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Originally from Portugal but call Manchester UK my home.
I love meeting people, hosting friends and family, snowboarding, food, binge-watching sci-fi TV shows, photography, my family and life itself!
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