Timezone: EST
Authors of Influence featuring:
Mark Settle
IT management is a craft that’s honed through on-the-job experience rather than a profession that’s mastered through hours of classroom study. Successful managers are expected to be fiscally responsible, politically savvy, technically clairvoyant and a source of inspiration to their teams. They’re routinely required to meet expectations that are frequently unstated, obviously unreasonable or completely unrealistic.
In short, IT management is a full contact sport, not to be pursued by the faint of heart.
Join us on June 18th as two veteran CIOs – Mark Settle and Julie Cullivan – share the secrets of successful IT leaders through a discussion of Mark’s book - Truth from the Trenches, A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management.
Although this discussion may touch on several common management themes such as budgeting, relationship building, people management and innovation, it will primarily focus on three less commonly discussed but no less important topics:
Exercising the Power of Position in obtaining feedback, borrowing good ideas from other companies and turning an IT team into a learning organization
Establishing Performance Metrics that matter to IT team members and the leaders of other functional groups who are ultimately paying the bill for IT services
Learning to Play Nicely with the Vendors once you’ve come to the realization that IT vendors are not necessarily ‘the enemy’
Meet the author
Mark settle
7x CIO & Author
Mark Settle is a seven time CIO, three time CIO 100 award winner and two time book author. His most recent book is “Truth from the Valley, A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade”. Settle serves on the advisory boards of several venture capital firms and personally advises multiple startup companies. Nine members of his prior management teams have gone on to become public company CIOs.
FEATURED GUEST
julie cullivan
2X CIO, Board Director & Advisor
Julie Cullivan currently sits on the board of directors for Axon Enterprise, Astra Space Inc, HeartFlow, and OPSWAT. In 2020, she joined Brighton Park Capital, a growth equity firm specializing in investments in the technology and healthcare sectors, as a special advisor. Prior to that, Ms. Cullivan served as Chief Technology & People Officer at Forescout Technologies, EVP, Business Operations & Chief Information Officer at FireEye, and SVP, Worldwide Field Operations at McAfee. She has spent her career helping enterprise software and cloud companies to scale and transform their businesses including Autodesk, EMC, and Oracle. Ms. Cullivan has a B.S. degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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