The InspireCIO Podcast

Today, hear a compilation of Season 2's best philosophies, professional struggles and greatest triumphs from InspireCIO Members and other special guests.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com/podcast.

How do you identify the problems before looking for solutions? Today, we go to the InspireCIO vault to revisit a conversation with NewYorkCIO member Harry Moseley, Global CIO of Zoom and AlabamaCIO member Neil Brinson, Chief Information Security Officer of Core & Main. Neil had the pleasure of sitting down with Harry discussed handling massive growth and being patient to think things through.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com/podcast.

Does your technology strategy help you retain talent? Today’s conversation features DallasCIO Member Ajoy Kodali, SVP of CVS Health and CIO of CVS Caremark. Jonathan Frye, President of InspireCIO, had the pleasure of sitting down with Ajoy to discuss creating a culture and strategy to retain talent.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com/podcast to find a chapter near you.

How are you able to relay data in an understandable way? Today’s conversation features NewYorkCIO member Claus Jensen, CIO and SVP of Teladoc Health. Lisa LaRoque, VP of InspireCIO, had the pleasure of sitting down with Claus to discuss using the art of storytelling to effectively relay data.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you.

Is your organization a "know-it-all" or a "learn-it-all"? Today’s conversation features CharlotteCIO member Seemantini Godbole, SVP and CIO at Lowe's. Lisa LaRoque, VP of InspireCIO, had the pleasure of sitting down with Seemantini to revisit her career journey and the importance of a five year plan.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

Has the pandemic accelerated progress? Today, we go to the InspireCIO vault to revisit a conversation with Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel and ChicagoCIO member Tom South, CIO of Northern Trust. At the time of this original episode airing back in August of 2020, Pat was the CEO of VMware and discussed how the pandemic was forcing technology leaders to be "faster to the future."If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

How big is your network? Today’s conversation features BostonCIO member & InspireCIO National Chair Brian Shield, SVP & CTO of the Boston Red Sox, as he takes us down career memory lane & recognizes his mentors along the way.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

Do you find yourself leading through personal crisis? Today, we revisit a conversation featuring MichiganCIO Membership Chair Melanie Kalmar, Corporate VP, CIO & CDO of Dow and Jen Wise, Executive Director of MichiganCIO, from last year’s season of the InspireCIO Podcast. Jen had the pleasure of sitting down with Melanie to talk about her personal battle with multiple myeloma cancer and how she continued to lead the 125 year old company, with dignity & excellence.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

Should your I.T. department be centralized? Today’s conversation features ChicagoCIO member Manuel Dietz, Bosch VP of Corporate I.T. & Head of Business Teams of Americas. Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO, had the pleasure of sitting down with Manuel to discuss how Bosch's A.I. & predictive technology make IoT truly innovative and weigh the pros & cons of a centralized I.T. department.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

Are you on the path from CIO to CEO? Today's conversation features Brian Stevens, CEO of Neural Magic and former CTO of Redhat and Google Cloud. Bob Solis, BostonCIO Vice Chair & CIO of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, had the pleasure of sitting down with Brian to talk about the path from CIO to CEO, evolving your recruitment strategies and how empathy should steer your decisions. If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

Are you building your team with diversity in mind? Today's conversation features TwinCitiesCIO Member, Mike McNamara, EVP & CIO of Target, sharing his hands-off leadership style that has resulted in a diverse engineering team, fueling Target’s omni-channel strategy along with the sophisticated and effective retail systems architecture.If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you. For more ways to engage, visit inspirecio.com.

Do you have a winning strategy for gaining & retaining great I.T. talent? GeorgiaCIO member Juan Perez, Chief Information and Engineering Officer of UPS, sits down with us to share his insights on establishing great I.T. talent, while taking us through his 32 year leadership journey with UPS… which began as an intern & delivery driver and concludes in April with his transition to Salesforce. If you are a CIO looking to grow your network of trusted CIO peer relationships, please visit inspirecio.com to find a chapter near you.

Today's Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO Member, Dan Simpson, Global CIO of Grant Thornton International Ltd and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO. Dan has held roles as CIO for 20 years in various organizations including Physicians Mutual, Trustmark Companies, and DeLeo Group.  In his current role as Global CIO for Grant Thornton International, Dan is leading the technology strategy to help enable collaboration across the network’s 140 member firms in over 130 countries. As Chairman of the Global Innovation Council, Dan is focused on cultivating and deploying innovative technologies into client solutions across the network.

Our Leadership Conversation features AustinCIO member and ORBIE winner, Steve Mills, Global CIO at iHeartMedia and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO. Steve has been leading technology for over 30 years in positions at BearingPoint, T-Mobile, Rackspace, and Motorola Mobility. Steve joined iHeartMedia in 2015 as Global CIO, and is responsible for all aspects of information technology for iHeartMedia's businesses, working to optimize the company’s overall technology systems with the business priorities. iHeartMedia supports 175+ global markets and 850 broadcast stations reaching more than a quarter of a billion listeners a month with broadcast alone, as well as a massive digital footprint. Steve believes that big wins come from continuous collaboration and communication between IT and business teams.

Our Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO member and ORBIE Winner Edward Wagoner, CIO for Digital at JLL Technologies and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIO. Edward has been leading  business and technology transformation at JLL for over 25 years. He has held roles as CIO for the Americas region and Global CIO before recently moving into his current role as CIO for Digital of JLL Technologies. JLL Technologies launched a first-of-its-kind real estate digital platform to deliver a best-in-class portfolio of technology solutions and services to over 600 clients around the world and managing over 6 billion square feet. In his current role, Edward would consider himself a “Techvangelist” – operating at the intersection of the digital and physical workplace. He is utilizing his unique and industry leading expertise to help clients creat, implement and manage their Digital Strategies.

Our Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO member Maryann Byrdak, CIO at Feeding America and Lisa LaRoque of InspireCIO. Maryann has been leading technology transformation for over 25 years with extensive experience in retail as part of Sears, OfficeMax, and PotBelly Sandwich Works. In 2019, Maryann joined Feeding America as their CIO right before a year when the need to rely on technology systems to help those around the country access healthy, nourishing food became critical. Through Maryann’s work at Feeding America, she is leading the expansion of the organizations “Meal Connect” platform to maximize available food sources which will connect 200 food banks with 60,000 agencies. Feeding America is utilizing this platform to aid in the elimination of food waste so that they can continue to make food more accessible for the over 38 million people in America who are currently facing hunger.

Today’s Leadership Conversation features ChicagoCIO member Dani Brown, SVP & CIO at Whirlpool.Dani has been in the information technology industry for over 20 years and has recently made the move to Whirlpool as their CIO. Dani is both a leader in business and technology and prior to her move to Whirlpool, Dani held leadership positions at DuPont and Brunswick Corporation where she was strategic in leading technology on a global scale. In her new role as CIO of Whirlpool Corporation’s Global Information Systems, Dani is creating value through the use of technology to improve connections with customers and how to utilize analytics further innovation in one of the world’s leading appliance companies.

Today’s Leadership Conversation features ORBIE Winner Matt Kull, CIO of Cleveland Clinic and Lisa LaRoque of InspireCIO. Throughout his career, Matt has worked with some of the largest healthcare, pharmaceutical and utility systems in the country leading the development of innovative and transformational technology strategies. He has held senior leadership positions at Parkland Hospital, AmerisourceBergen, McKesson, Oncology Therapeutics Network, Oracle, and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph. He has also spent a number of years as a management consultant providing strategic guidance across multiple industries to companies such as Accenture, Walgreens Specialty Health, Thompson Reuters, McKesson, Citi Group, and Nokia.In his current role as CIO at Cleveland Clinic, Matt is leading the charge for how technology is being used to shape the future of healthcare, especially in a year where the adoption of virtual technologies has become vitally important.

Today’s Leadership Conversation features ORBIE Winner: Edwin Marcial, founding CTO of Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, now a tech investor and host of Techrides, and Frank Bell, Founder of InspireCIOEdwin led the technology success of ICE as it grew from a six person startup to over a 20 billion dollar public company, leading a team of 350 developers and technologists.  Using experience gained at ICE, he advises, invests in, and helps early-stage software companies including Rigor, SwatchPop, InstaStaff, BetterCloud, and SnapNurse.Techrides is a video series featuring interviews with CEOs, Founders, Tech Leaders and innovators all while riding in cool cars.  Smart People, Sweet Rides. So enjoy today’s “on the road” episode of Leadership Unscripted - Techrides edition, as we catch up with Edwin Marcial and Frank Bell.

Today’s Leadership Conversation features CapitalCIO Member and ORBIE Winner: Shamim Mohammad, CIO at CarMax and President of InspireCIO, Jonathan Frye. CarMax is the nation’s largest retailer of used cars and one of the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 15 consecutive years. Shamim has over 20 years of leadership experience in helping organizations drive competitive advantage through technology. Prior to joining CarMax in 2012, Shamim was the vice president of IT for BJ’s Wholesale Club and held senior IT leadership positions for Blockbuster, TravelCLICK and Wyndham Hotels.