Sunni Pavlovic

Sunni Pavlovic is a Partner at Windflower Games, a game development and publishing consultancy, where she specializes in growing organizations with Executive Leadership, Strategy, and Production support. She built her career at small but mighty studios that make artistic, heartwarming, and innovative experiences and has held key leadership roles across development, publishing, and business development. Sunni loves serving as a GDC Advisor for the Independent Games Summit and her North Star is finding new ways to foster stronger connections and healthier leadership practices within the games industry.

Gaps in Leadership

Even the most accomplished game leaders develop limitations that impact their ability to build great studios or ship chart-topping games. These limitations can often manifest as gaps in self-awareness, unproductive communication patterns, or unconscious biases that impede organizational success. This roundtable, moderated by Sunni Pavlovic (Windflower Games) will explore how skilled leaders thread the needle in acknowledging and addressing their limitations while maintaining credibility and buy-in with those they lead. Some questions we’ll discuss in this roundtable include:

• What are some best practices for handling leadership gaps?
• What are both positive and negative takeaways we can learn from high-performing studios that last?
• Looking at recent industry challenges, what can we be doing differently at a leadership level?