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Leadership at its Peak: How Board Advisor Coaching Shapes Success

N2Growth Blog

The Role of Board Advisor Coaching in Shaping Success Board advisor coaching plays a critical role in shaping the success of organizations and their leaders. In today’s complex and rapidly changing business landscape, executives need more than technical expertise to thrive.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. Gartner’s data suggests that, without executive partnership, as many as 88% of CIOs are primed to fall short.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO

Ralph Loura, former SVP and CIO, Lumentum Lumentum That move soon led to a job running a data center and increasingly more senior roles, including stints as CIO at Symbol Technologies, Clorox, and HP’s Enterprise Group. So he took the initiative to suggest new ways to work. Be planful; know what you want to do.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

CIO

I used figures of speech and financial terms they understood, and I kept well away from technical jargon because that wasn’t my audience. She adds that storytelling is also being used increasingly in M&A, and she’s advised on Accenture’s recent acquisition of UK creative change management consultancy, The Storytellers.

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

CIO

To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO

Kristen Lamoreaux, president and CEO, Lamoreaux Search Lamoreaux Search Visibility defined Balaban’s experience provides a particularly valuable lesson for women in IT about the importance of building a well-recognized professional brand to advance their careers and bring gender equity to corporate leadership. It’s not fair, but it exists.