Matthew Skelton
keynote talks & panels | board advisory | consultation
empowering and augmenting teams using technology
Disrupting organizational transformation via Team Topologies, fast flow, and Adapt Together™ | Co-author of Team Topologies 📗 | CEO at Conflux
I help leaders and managers to adopt a holistic approach to innovation using people and technology in harmony via Team Topologies, Adapt Together™, and Continuous Stewardship.
The book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais is revolutionizing transformations and operating model design for modern, AI-enabled organizations.
With over 200,000 copies sold worldwide in 6 languages, Team Topologies points the way to humane effective organizations that use Economies of Empowerment to scale at speed.
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Recent articles
Economies of empowerment provide an ideal path to simplified transformation. This approach offers the benefits of both speed and scale, delivering value faster with fewer blockers. It helps enable recurring cost savings and maintain high team engagement and satisfaction.
Keynote talks
“Matthew is an incredibly knowledgeable speaker, able to distil complicated systems to their essence and explain them clearly.”
Recent podcasts and videos
Recent blog posts
Upcoming events
Leadership roundtable: Skills pathways for fast flow
Join us at CTO Craft Con London for an engaging roundtable discussion where our experts, Matthew Skelton and Renee Hawkins, will guide you through practical strategies for creating a joined-up approach to innovation, skills uplift, and practice sharing across teams.
We’ll discuss ways to avoid wasteful duplication of effort and make upskilling more collaborative and aligned across departments, while avoiding the costly pattern of creating new silos with each innovation wave.
At the DevOps Modernization Summit on 11 March 2026, Matthew Skelton (co-author of Team Topologies) explains why AI isn’t a magic productivity button and how to redesign team boundaries so AI becomes a collaborator, not a source of burnout.
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Recent events
Matthew Skelton leads a 1-day Masterclass for CTOs in retail: Team Topologies + MACH = Agility
Drive AI-savvy transformation at scale using the Team Topologies approach with worldwide expertise via Conflux