The official theme of the summit was `The Modern Technology Executive – Leading, Inventing and Winning in Unprecedented Times and Uncharted Waters,’ and it delivered a consistently powerful message of how trust, collaboration, innovation, courage, resiliency empathy and inclusion can foster business success and growth in turbulent times.
Here is a quick recap of highlights from yesterday’s truly stellar executive leadership summit:
Best-selling author Stephen M.R. Covey gave a magnificent keynote address on the reasons why leaders need to shift away from a ‘Command-and-Control’ leadership style and embrace a ‘Trust and Inspire’ approach to help bring out the greatness in employees, foster collaboration and innovation and to enable companies to win in the market.
Ramnath Venkataraman, Integrated Global Services Lead, Accenture and Gloria Samuels, Senior Managing Director, Accenture, spoke convincingly about how leading enterprises are compressing a decade’s worth of digital transformation into timeframes of one to two years. According to the Make the leap, take the lead research from Accenture, astute leaders have cracked the code on delivering change faster and realizing value with transformative technology. These “Leapfroggers” have demonstrated positive spikes in performance, growing 4X faster than technology “Laggards.”
Urs Foley, Board Member Provident Financial Services and Greenlight Re & Strategic Advisor, moderated a fascinating Executive Panel discussion on the summit’s overarching theme `Leading, Inventing and Winning in Unprecedented Times and Uncharted Waters.’ Panelists included Kamran Amin, CIO, Arch Reinsurance Group; Fred Danback, SVP, CIO and CISO, Healthcare Risk Advisors; and Anna Ransley, CIO, GODIVA.
Vinny Licht, CIO Advisor & Board Member, led a terrific Executive Panel on the topic of `Safeguarding the Enterprise Against Escalating Global Cyber Threats.’ Panel members included Mario DiNatale, CISO, OdysseyRe; Matt Lagana, Managing Director, MBIA; and Brook Shuford, CIO, CISO & Chief Privacy Officer, Datavail Corporation.
Joseph Puglisi, Chairman, Co-Manager, North Andover Investors Collaborative, moderated an excellent Executive Panel on `Preparing Yourself to be Boardroom Ready.’ The all-star panelists included Beth Boucher, Non-Executive Independent Director| Chair Nominating and Governance Committee, Coforge; Susan Certoma, Board Director | Executive Leader | Strategic Advisor, Point2Point; Tsvi Gal, CTO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Board Member, Israel Discount Bank; and Sigal Zarmi, Board Director, ADT; Hashicorp; BigID.
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