Eyes on Impact

How do technology leaders like Brad Sousa and Rhonda Holt, CTO of PBS, spark innovation and communicate its value to stakeholders? In this episode, they stress keeping the human impact at the forefront and cultivating curiosity and courage on their teams. With new technologies like generative AI raising ethical questions, they emphasize the importance of transparency and managing risk in early adoption. Rhonda also tells h...

In this episode, Rachel Lockett, CIO of Pohlad Companies, and host Brad Sousa share an in-depth conversation about leadership, communication (and the communication gap that exists between business leaders and technology leaders), and the impact technology has on people. If you aspire to be, or currently serve as, a CIO you must understand your technology skill is not the greatest value you provide to the business. Your per...

Get back to the office or you're fired. No? How about: Work remotely as much as you want, that's fine with us. There's a right way and a wrong way to address workplace and remote work situations we now find ourselves in. What if the real impact on your organization, good or bad, depends on how you respond to this? We can create a workplace that's actually worth returning to, where organizations don't mandate people to go b...

Innovation is easy. We love it. But man, is it ever fraught with problems. Outcomes are never certain. So why would we ever commit to something crazy like that? In this episode of Eyes on Impact, we talk with Atti Riazi, CIO of Hearst Corporation – that multi-billion dollar global media and tech giant. Prior to joining Hearst, she was the Assistant Secretary General and Chief Information Technology Officer for the United N...

Many people look at IT and think it's a utility that must be provided to the workforce in order to support them. Truth is, that what IT professionals do has true impact on our customers’ ability to accomplish their mission. It enables people to build consensus around a global initiative more quickly. This doesn't sound like a utility. It sounds like the ability to transform the organization, something that really has human...