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• Accelerate your ability to transform your business, customer experiences and Go-to-Market strategies
• Access expert guidance to effectively address your highest priority projects over the next 12 months
• Strengthen your professional brand and gain recognition for your company and team to boost your recruitment and retention capabilities

THE HMG EXECUTIVE-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Industry legends and long-time CELA alumni share their expertise, vision and guidance for fellow CELA members on the Leadership, Innovation, Workplace, Culture, Technology and Branding Trends impacting senior technology executives.

THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP
• Leading courageously across the C-suite, with the Board and line-of-business executives with a focus on authenticity, compassion, and trust to inspire and guide teams in turbulent times
• Continuing to strengthen your boardroom presence and addressing the importance of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION
• Keeping up with the accelerated pace of digital transformation
• Adopting forward-looking practices and use cases for AI, machine learning, analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), automation, and risk management

THE FUTURE OF WORK
• Exploring best practices for WFH, return to office, and hybrid
• Building an organization that fosters workforce engagement, motivation, and elevating morale
• Enhancing the work experience and adapting to the office of the future

THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
• Evaluating existing and next-gen ERP investments
• Negotiating cost-effective SaaS renewals
• Reducing tech debt, accelerating modernization and the journey to the cloud
• Diverting legacy technology investments and redirecting resources to focus on data, cyber, quantum, edge computing, virtual and augmented reality, blockchain, 5G and IoT

HOW CELA ADDS VALUE
CELA will help you to succeed as a strategic partner in the C-suite and the Boardroom, strengthening your critical thinking – to think differently, see around the corners, evaluate issues from the outside in, and determine the best way forward.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS
• Participate in monthly meetings focused on critical topics with insights from experts including senior technology leaders, search executives and venture capitalists
• Gain access to HMG reports, surveys, white papers and other proprietary research

ELITE COMMUNITY
• Cultivate deep connections with global enterprise executives – an elite group of CIOs, CISOs, CDOs and CTOs – to share challenges and lessons learned
• Gain exposure through HMG Ventures to cutting edge technologies and emerging startups from around the world

CAREER ACCELERATION/PERSONAL BRANDING
• Leverage HMG’s global media platform which generates 1 million impressions per month to accelerate your personal brand
• Speak at HMG events, contribute to articles and participate in interviews
• Be interviewed by Hunter Muller for an ‘HMG Spotlight’ digital interview and profiled in an HMG ‘Profiles in Leadership’ research article
• Gain recognition through participation in the HMG 2024 Global Leadership Institute Awards program
• Access global search firms

• TOP 3 DIFFERENTIATORS OF HMG’s CELA SERVICE
  1. Faster ROI with the HMG Genius Network. Inquiries fielded by other networks historically take weeks to resolve
  2. HMG’s peer-driven CELA service tackles the topics that matter most to you
  3. HMG Strategy’s CELA Service elevates your brand, your company’s brand and your team
• Connections and exclusive access to top-tier CELA members and global business technology leaders such as FedEx’s Ken Spangler, Sysco’s Tom Peck and Adobe’s Cynthia Stoddard
• Access and personal introductions to the world’s top executive search Firms
• Recognition through HMG Strategy’s 2024 Global Leadership Institute Awards program

FEATURES OF THE CELA SERVICE

1. Leverage proprietary research on leadership and technology trends and challenges
2. Submit inquiries to the HMG Genius Network Career Coaching Sessions
3. 60-minute virtual discussions
4. 4-hour in-person roundtables

We have created a “Trusted Community” to inspire your thinking, to enable you to deliver a compelling strategic vision to the C-suite and the Board and to lead effectively. We will prepare you to execute at the Board, C-suite, CEO and LOB level and power best-in-class external partnerships and worldclass IT organization teams and culture.

STRENGTHENING YOUR POSITION IN THE C-SUITE
The HMG CELA service takes a strategic, cross-industry point of view, with worldclass speakers and curated agenda topics – all focused on accelerating your organization’s digital business strategy with you at the center of these efforts. Focus areas for the HMG CELA service in 2024 on the changes that are needed to remodel enterprise architecture to better enable the business to become more nimble and scalable. HMG Strategy will also facilitate dialogue aimed at helping CELA members to reduce their organizations’ tech debt, lower fixed technology spending and free up discretionary spending for innovation and grow-the-business initiatives.

Our 60-minute virtual discussions and 4 hour in-person roundtables among CELA members will go deep into the topic areas that matter most to you, and be charged with industry- leading practitioners, thought leaders, C-suite executives and board members – all geared towards strengthening your leadership capabilities and to better enable you to create innovative digital strategies and go-to-market business models that can help propel your business forward.

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THE HMG SPOTLIGHT RESEARCH REPORT
Development of a 4-to-6-page report highlighting the achievements of individual CELA members along with a custom Spotlight interview with Hunter Muller regarding these achievements

REQUEST AN APPLICATION
CELA is an invitation-only service exclusively for C-suite senior technology and security executives. Please add to cart to request an application to be emailed to you or you can send an email to cela@hmgstrategy.com to request an application.