How to negotiate without fear

Tara Johnson

Negotiating can be intimidating, especially if you have a diverse profile. What are some techniques to ensure that you are keeping yourself safe while pushing for what you deserve?
Join Meri Williams, experienced CTO and Mantombi Ngoloyi, PhD, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Evangelist 50inTech as they discuss pay negotiation risks, pitfalls, tactics and strategies.
Meet Meri Williams - Experienced CTO
Meri is an experienced CTO and leader of technology organisations. She particularly enjoys helping others to level up as technical leaders and managers of organisations, and works as a CTO coach and tech advisor to various companies in this capacity through micro-consultancy ChromeRose.
She has led teams ranging in size from 30 to 300, in a range of organisations from Procter & Gamble, to the Government Digital Service, award-winning online print company MOO, mobile-first challenger bank Monzo and patient-inspired AI-driven rare disease treatment discovery company Healx, amongst others.
A published author and international speaker, she is the chair of The Lead Developer conference, and a tech advisor for Kindred Capital. She’s also a trustee at Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ rights charity, and together with her wife runs micro-charity One Goes Up to help young women & enby folks pursue STEM education & careers.

Watch the rest of the Bootcamp
- "The state of salaries and the gender pay gap in European Tech" with Caroline Ramade - CEO at 50inTech and Virgile Raingeard - CEO at Figures
- "How to miss out on your potential" with Yasmine Guerin, creator of the Negotiatress method and expert in negotiation
- "How to negotiate your first offer" with Morgane Dion, founder of Equallywork and the author of the book “Petit manuel de combat contre le sexisme au travail”
- "Sit down, DON’T be humble: how to rock your annual performance review" with Atossa Vaziri - VP of Sales Enablement at Dataiku
- "Real stories: how they augmented their salaries by over 30%" with Audrey Pedro - CPO at Scaleway and Coley Woyak at OCUS
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