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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. What are the characteristics of authentic leadership?

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

CIO

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. I strongly believe in situational leadership.

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Transforming the leadership trajectory for women in tech

CIO

Given this reality – and the business world’s drive to create more diverse and inclusive leadership teams – the pressure is now on companies to hold on to the few women leaders they already have. This can hinder their ability to take on leadership positions because they’re perceived to come with additional responsibilities.

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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

CIO

Here tech leaders discuss how they’re innovating in an uncertain world by returning to the basics of good leadership, building trust, promoting transparency, and leaning into strategy over skillset. Those skills can then be quickly employed within the organization. Gartner estimates AI could account for 3.5%

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. But how do you know if you're succeeding? Adapt your implementation of Agile to your industry context.

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The CIO’s fatal flaw: Too much leadership, not enough management

CIO

Because what’s frequently missed in the perennial leadership vs. management fracas is that management is about getting work out the door. Leadership is an important collection of techniques managers use to get the people in their organization to embrace the direction they’re trying to set. Which does help get work out the door.

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From AI to Empathic Leadership: Your Journey at FutureIT Toronto 2024 Begins Here

CIO

Take a journey through the realms of cloud technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and tech leadership and join in for a day filled with insightful discussions, meaningful connections, and unforgettable insights that will help shape the future of your business. On April 23, 2024, CIO + IDC host FutureIT Toronto.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. The wrong organizational structure can create friction of all kinds.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change.

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

Universal principles of influence that are necessary to both understand and leverage if you want to be more effective leader of change in your organization. Strategies to build consensus within your teams. This knowledge and the related skills are essential to success as a technology leader.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations. February 21 2019 12.30

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Driving Discovery and Experimentation in your Organization

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC

Join Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk), David Bland (Founder, Precoil), and Hope Gurion (Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product) in a panel discussion as they cover how - and why - to build a culture of discovery and experimentation in your organization. We'll cover: Why discovery and experimentation are important.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

See inside the operations of top performing customer experience teams, and improve your organization’s CX outcomes. Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game.

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The Future of Product Management

Speaker: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of The Product School

Over the past couple of years, organizations have seen exponential growth in products as a direct result of their product teams. From expectations to technology, tools, and leadership, the CEO of the Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, will detail the trends that are shaping the future of Product Management.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes.