Chris Laping brings more than 24 years of IT and business transformation experience to his newly launched effort, People Before Things, which includes an upcoming book focused on change leadership. Chris enjoyed 14 years as a CIO across three different brands. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President, Business Transformation and CIO at Red Robin. 
Chris has received several awards for his work including: ComputerWorld’s Premier 100 IT Leader, three InfoWorld 100 awards, InformationWeek’s Social Business Technology Leader, and The Economist’s Top 5 Social Business Leader.