Emily Webber (She/her)
Company: Tacit
Independent organisation consultant, coach, trainer, speaker and author of Building Successful Communities of Practice. Passionate about creating environments that enable people to thrive so that organisations can thrive.
Profile Photos
Links
Company website: hellotacit.com
Blog: emilywebber.co.uk
Bluesky: ewebber.bsky.social
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/emilywebber
Bio
Emily is a UK-based and internationally recognised independent organisational consultant, coach, trainer and speaker. She focuses on creating environments where people thrive so that organisations can thrive; breaking down silos to improve flow and accelerate learning.
She helps organisations to create conditions that enable effective collaboration and iterative, user-focused delivery. To do this, she works with leadership teams, embeds communities of practice and leads cross-organisation initiatives that allow for learning and growing capabilities, all of which help create sustainable change.
She is known internationally for her work on communities of practice and has authored the book Building Successful Communities of Practice and practical collaboration tools, such as The Team Onion.
She regularly contributes to the digital community, sharing approaches, speaking at conferences and founding several meetups, including Agile in the Ether, Liverpool Digital People and Agile on the Bench.
She blogs at emilywebber.co.uk and lists her side projects at ewebber.co.uk.
Books and publications
- Book: Building Successful Communities of Practice
- Peer-reviewed research article: The fractal structure of communities of practice: Implications for business organization (with Robin Dunbar)
- Book: The Team Onion
- Contributor to mini book: Optimizing for fast flow
Interviews
- Communities of Practice – Making tech better podcast
- Building Communities That Work – The Product Experience Podcast
- Fostering Inclusion for Remote Work – The New Stack Podcast
- Dunbar’s Numbers and Communities of Practice – Team Topologies
- Communities of Practice – Cucumber Podcast
- The Agile Revolution Podcast
- Don’t Design Alone: Cultivating Communities of Practice – Presentable podcast
- Agile Profile: Emily Webber – Agile Government Leadership
Projects
- Communities of Practice work website
- The Diversity Charter better diversity at events
- Agile in the Ether meetup
- Liverpool Digital People meetup
- London Shop Fronts photo blog