Andrea Goulet

Andrea Goulet is a leading voice at the intersection of empathy and technology. As the founder of multiple mission-driven companies, including Corgibytes, she has dedicated her career to transforming how teams communicate and collaborate in software development. With a passion for building strong engineering cultures, Andrea helps organizations bridge the gap between technical excellence and human-centric leadership.

A recognized expert in legacy code, empathy in engineering, and technical communication, Andrea has been featured in prominent media outlets and speaks internationally on topics ranging from cognitive empathy to scaling software teams. Her work empowers companies to tackle complex technical debt while fostering inclusive, resilient environments where innovation can thrive.

Creating an Agile Culture

Enhance productivity through empathy, cross-functional collaboration, and collaboration.

Most Agile transformations fail—not because the frameworks are flawed, but because the culture hasn’t caught up. In this keynote package, Andrea Goulet redefines agility through the lens of empathy, showing how it functions as infrastructure within resilient organizations. You’ll explore how to build the emotional and structural capacity needed to navigate change, communicate effectively, cultivate healthy teams, and collaborate without burning out.

Grounded in complexity science and real-world leadership experience, this program helps organizations operationalize empathy to improve adaptability, engagement, and delivery. If your teams are technically Agile but struggling with silos, conflict, or exhaustion, this keynote experience will give you the clarity and momentum you’ve been missing.

Collaborative Communication

Master the skills and systems behind effective communication—so your team stops spinning and starts solving.

Miscommunication isn’t just frustrating—it’s expensive. Whether it’s a missed deadline, a derailed project, or a misunderstood decision, the ripple effects of unclear messaging can stall progress across an entire organization. This program equips teams and leaders with the skills, structure, and emotional intelligence needed to communicate clearly—even when the conversation is hard, complex, or high-stakes.

Combining empathy-driven insight with practical tools, Collaborative Communication helps you reduce friction, align expectations, and accelerate problem-solving—whether you’re navigating cross-functional priorities or just trying to get a direct answer in Slack.

Scale Without Chaos

Build the internal infrastructure your growing team needs—without burning out your people or breaking what’s working.

Scaling a business is exciting—but it often comes with invisible strain. Communication starts to break down. Roles get fuzzy. People work harder just to keep up, and systems that once felt scrappy and efficient now feel chaotic and unpredictable.

Scale Without Chaos is a leadership development program designed to help you grow sustainably, not reactively. It addresses the often-overlooked emotional and operational challenges of scaling—like role confusion, bottlenecks, overwork, and decision fatigue. Through a blend of strategic frameworks and human-centered systems, Andrea equips founders, team leads, and internal change agents to build scalable structures that support clarity, trust, and real business momentum.

If your team is asking “What’s the plan?” or you’re constantly firefighting, this is your signal to slow down just long enough to build what you’ll need to go faster later.

Productive Conflict

Transform tension into progress with a conflict framework that builds trust instead of breaking teams.

Conflict isn’t the problem—how we handle it is. Too often, teams avoid hard conversations until resentment festers or jump into confrontations without the tools to de-escalate and repair. The result? Fractured relationships, stalled initiatives, and missed opportunities for growth.

Productive Conflict helps teams move beyond surface-level conflict resolution toward true systemic improvement. Grounded in Andrea’s Restore & Explore model, this program teaches leaders how to recognize different conflict states, restore psychological safety, and engage in collaborative problem-solving that strengthens—not strains—your organization.

If your team struggles with accountability, tiptoes around tough topics, or has a culture of either avoidance or aggression, this is the missing layer in your leadership toolkit.

Technical empathy

Engineer effective collaboration by understanding the science behind effective communication.

Software might run on logic, but software teams run on empathy. Without it, developers get stuck in endless misalignment loops—explaining things that aren’t landing, receiving feedback that misses the mark, and navigating decisions made without their input or understanding. The result? Frustration, delays, and a widening empathy gap between tech and business functions.

Technical Empathy equips cross-functional teams with a shared communication model that maps emotional intelligence onto technical systems. Using a reimagined version of the Shannon-Weaver model, this program helps engineers, product managers, designers, and executives identify the real root of breakdowns—and resolve them without blame.

If your organization struggles with the classic sales vs. engineering tension, constant context-switching, or the “why didn’t you just tell me?” problem, this program provides the missing protocol.

Leading Through change

Navigate uncertainty with empathy, clarity, and confidence—so your team feels supported, not scattered.

Change is constant—but chaos doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re scaling, restructuring, rolling out a new strategy, or just trying to stabilize after a disruptive shift, how you lead through change determines whether your team resists, complies, or engages.

Leading Through Change helps leaders address the often-overlooked emotional and operational realities of transition. Instead of relying on generic change management frameworks, this program focuses on designing communication systems that reduce fear, surface resistance early, and build trust—even when the future is still in motion.

You’ll learn how to move from vague alignment to real engagement—without burning out your people or getting lost in endless messaging cycles.