Talks and speaker bio
Speaking
Speaking since 2011 on the human side of delivery: client relationships, remote and cross-cultural teams, women in leadership and, now, what AI changes about the brief. Includes keynotes at WordCamp Sunshine Coast and WordCamp Auckland, WordCamp Europe in 2016, 2019 and 2024, and a featured slot at WordCamp Canada in 2025.
Next talk
You’re All Project Managers Now: Why your agent is only as good as your brief
Enqueue, Sydney · 9 December 2026
What I talk about
Topic
Delivery and client relationships
How to bring clients into the work as a partner, inviting them to become part of the team rather than an interruption to it.
Topic
Remote and cross-cultural teams
How to close the distance in remote and cross-cultural teams, so time zones and different working styles become a strength rather than friction.
Topic
Women in leadership
Fixing the ladder: getting more women into leadership in WordPress businesses.
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AI and the brief
Why your AI agent is only as good as your brief, and how the project management skills we already have make us better at working with it.
Talks
2026
Enqueue, Sydney
You’re All Project Managers Now: Why your agent is only as good as your brief
Upcoming, 9 December
2025
WordCamp Canada
2024
WordCamp Sydney
2024
WordCamp Europe
2020
WordCamp Ogijima, Japan
2019
WordCamp Europe
2018
WordCamp Sydney
2018
WordCamp Sydney
2017
WordCamp Auckland
2017
WordCamp Brisbane
2016
WordCamp Sunshine Coast
2016
WordCamp Sydney
2016
WordCamp Europe
2015
WordCamp Brisbane
2015
WordPress Developers Melbourne
2014
ProBlogger Training Event, Gold Coast
2014
WordCamp Raleigh
2012
WordCamp New Zealand
2011
WordCamp Gold Coast
Podcast guest
2025–26
Community + Code
2022
WP Briefing, the official WordPress podcast
2020
Women in WP
2017
WP Elevation
Interviews and features
2022
WordPress.org News
2020
Cloudways (archived copy)
2016
HeroPress
2013
Code Poet
2012
WordCamp Central
Videos of past talks are on WordPress.tv.
Speaker bio
For event organisers, in the third person. Use it as written or shorten it.
Dee Teal leads delivery for enterprise web platforms across arts, health, law and government. Over eleven years she has led the project management discipline at a global, fully remote WordPress agency, coordinated WordPress 5.6, the first major release shipped by an all-women and non-binary squad, and co-founded WP Includes, a mentoring scheme to get more women into leadership in WordPress businesses. She has been speaking since 2011 on the human side of delivery, including keynotes at WordCamp Sunshine Coast and WordCamp Auckland, WordCamp Europe, and as a featured speaker at WordCamp Canada. She is based in Melbourne.
Invite me to speak
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