Subject: 21 CIOs and CXOs reveal their success strategies

How top tech execs are accelerating their teams up the value curve

What are the top CIOs doing to accelerate their teams up the value curve?

In a series of recent virtual roundtable discussions, 21 leading CIOs and CxOs opened their playbooks and shared candid conversations about their strategies, experiences, and lessons learned.


Each of the roundtable discussions addresses a key area these technology leaders are focused on to ensure their teams stay future-ready in an increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world:


  • Building a Consultative IT Culture, featuring: James Johnson, CIO of James Hardie Industries; Shanna Cotti-Osmanski, former CIO of ConMed; Kristie Grinnell, CIO of DXC Technology; Vicki Hildebrand, CIO of BCBSMA; Sue Kozik, CIO of BCBSLA; Kelly Lyman, CIO of PECO; and Sanjay Shringarpure, CIO of Republic National Distributing.


  • Building a Service-Oriented IT Culture, featuring: Brian Abrahamson, Associate Laboratory Director and CDO for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Renee Ghent, SVP of Customer Operations at HealthEdge; Karen Juday, former UCLA Director of IT Client Support and USC Director of IT Customer Service, now an O&A service excellence facilitator; Dr. Miloš Topić, VP of IT and CDO at Grand Valley State University; and David Vidoni, VP of IT at Pegasystems.


  • Leading Change, featuring: Irvin Bishop, Jr., EVP and CIO of Black & Veatch; Dan Bruno, COO of Duke Health Technology Solutions; Susan Duff, senior facilitator of O&A’s Leading Change program; Sankha Ghosh, EVP and CIO of AssuredPartners; Ashish Parmar, CIO of Tapestry; and Chuck Watson, CIO of Essentia Health.


  • Marketing the Value of a Technology Organization, featuring: Kirk Ball, EVP and CIO of Giant Eagle; Claus T. Jensen, Chief Innovation Officer at Teledoc Health; Marykay Wells, CIO of Pearson; and Anna Reuhl, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture for Performance Materials and Coatings IT at Dow.


Click through for access to all of the articles and for details on how O&A can help you embed the mindsets and build the skillsets your team needs to show up differently, too.

Next week on the Tech Whisperers podcast! Qualcomm’s Cisco Sanchez


My guest next week on the podcast is Cisco Sanchez, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Qualcomm. We recorded this episode live at last month’s CIO100 Symposium, where Cisco was honored with a CIO100 Award.


Cisco opened up his digital transformation playbook, highlighting his focus on those things that matter most. Tune in as he shares his foundational pillars for leading “tech inside of tech” and guiding the company to take the right fork in the road. As a leader in a business that is scaling by moving into new markets, he also discusses the five things he is doing to set people up for success.