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Ryan Latta is a consulting partner to engineering leaders at Fortune 100 companies and startups who need their teams to perform without constant oversight. He specializes in transforming how teams work — turning dependent, bottlenecked organizations into self-managing teams that deliver predictably. His clients include Sysco Foods, Toyota, Jack in the Box, and Sonic Drive-In.

Suggested Episode Topics

  1. High-Performing Teams Quit Low-Performing Leaders — Why your best engineers leave and it's not about comp. What leaders do that drives top talent out — and the specific behaviors that make them stay.

  2. Your Engineering Org Is Addicted to You — Every decision routes through the VP. Every escalation lands on the director's desk. Leaders build dependency and mistake being needed for being effective. How to break the cycle.

  3. Build Confidence by Building Predictability — Stakeholders are anxious because they can't predict delivery. The fix isn't better estimates — it's making work visible and building a track record people trust.

  4. Leaders Win with Results, Not Reports — Status reports, velocity charts, and dashboards are theater if outcomes don't change. What actually moves the needle when an engineering org is stuck.

Suggested Interview Questions

  1. You say high-performing teams quit low-performing leaders. What does that actually look like from inside an organization?
  2. How do leaders accidentally build teams that can't function without them?
  3. You've consulted at Fortune 100 companies and startups — what's the pattern you see in engineering orgs that are stuck?
  4. What's the first thing you do when you walk into a struggling engineering team?
  5. You transformed a Fortune 100 team in three months that previous consultants took a year to do. What did you do differently?
  6. What's the difference between a team that needs a manager and a self-managing team? How does a leader get from one to the other?
  7. You talk about predictability over estimation — what does that mean practically for an engineering leader?
  8. What's the most common mistake you see engineering VPs make that they don't realize is costing them their best people?

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