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🌟 The difference between a manager and a leader shows most during a crisis. 🌟 Marie Mouchet demonstrated true leadership as she invested in the Chicagoland technology community last week by sharing lessons from the event leaders dread, but must be ready for. “Leading Through Crisis: A Leadership Conversation with Marie Mouchet” was the perfect intersection for ChicagoCIO and ChicagoCISO to collectively learn, share and find answers in the room. ChicagoCISO Membership Chair Nidhi Luthra, Baxter International Inc., expertly facilitated a dynamic and actionable conversation with Marie, blending insights and real-world experiences that created a fresh, people-focused crisis leadership playbook. Marie Mouchet, a three-time ORBIE Award winner and former GeorgiaCIO Chair, left us all with valuable lessons in calm, steady leadership during turbulent times. 🗝️ Question: In your experience, what are the skills that distinguish a leader from a manager & how have they helped you lead in times of crisis or get through one? Conversation ⌚below! 👇

The ChicagoCIO Advisory Board invested in planning meaningful recognition in 2025 for innovative technology leaders. Thank you ChicagoCIO Chair Kevin Boyd, University of Chicago, for leading strategic planning conversations leveraging the wisdom of this peer network. 🎙️Programs Chairs Mark Campbell, D.Sc. & Brock Morrison nailed down the details of 2025 events. 💳Membership Chairs Samir Shah & Thomas South dove into crystallizing the ChicagoCIO membership value proposition. 🏆Awards Chair Andrew Collyer opened priority #CIO & #CISO #ORBIE nominations for the May 2025 Awards. Next year, when it seems as though technology leaders are magically & meaningfully honored for their leadership, we can mark this conversation as the true starting point, thanks to significant behind the scenes planning. Thank you for your leadership ChicagoCIO Advisory Board Members! 🙏🏽

Life offers 3 irreplaceable gifts… 1. Your Experiences 2. Your Education 3. Your Relationships The Inspire Leadership Network excels at building #relationships that change lives. One built in companion is Year Up United. The ChicagoCIO partnership with Jennifer Mitchell & Andrea Vaughn has equipped corporate IT teams and launched careers! Thank you 🙏🏽 for being a trusted partner, anchoring and expanding gift #3. Build your relationships. Join ChicagoCIO | Partner with Year Up United. #RelationshipsMatter #OpenDoors

Great leaders will travel far to learn from great leaders, case in point Inspire Leadership Network Inside Bosch Stuttgart. Germany? No problem to take a deep dive into Bosch manufacturing, IT transformation, security and data excellence, hosted by Manuel Dietz | Ivan Skerl | Geoff Gustitus, Bosch & Jim Hart, Burwood Group. 20+ technology leaders arrived from 9 chapters curious and left wiser and well connected. Thank you team Bosch for the opportunity to: 👀 See manufacturing excellence informed by data driven technology 🦻Learn from Martin B. Schultz driving large scale global digital transformation 💡 🙊Experience the research and data center 🎤 Unpack daily learnings with a brain trust of experienced #CIOs & #CISOs. Thank you Jonathan Frye & Frank Bell for enabling unparraelled relationships through peer leadership. #GlobalInsider #Danke #LikeABosch

Inspire Inside Bosch Stuttgart began tonight with questions...about tomorrow….bringing #answers in the room. Introductions & questions from 8+ chapter members with +1 guests brought a powerful panel conversation with Manuel Dietz Ivan Skerl and Geoff Gustitus, Bosch. Thank you. ·      We learned what we didn't know about Bosch. ·      We learned today is Robert Bosch’s Birthday #planned 🙃 ·      We learned the power of bringing 8+ Inspire Leadership Network leaders in one room. Thank you Jim Hart, Burwood Group for your support, introducing a cacophony of chapters to build relationships. We look forward to an impressive Insider tomorrow in Stuttgart. (Follow me for more!) Alexis Gurkin | Alexandra Uman | Lacey Elmange | Matthew Browne | Rachel Montemayor | Anna Burdett | Manda Carpenter | Frank Bell | Jaimie E. | Jonathan Frye #BayAreaCIO #ChicagoCIO #ChicagoCISO #DallasCIO #MinnesotaCIO #HoustonCIO #WisconsinCIO

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge ChicagoCIO members took a hard left from technology to comedy in a memorable Member Xchange with Ethan Blumenthal, Knuckleball Comedy, directly out of comfort zones and into exercises in laughter and team creativity. 100% sure ChicagoCIO's newest members Jamie Head | Merim Becirovic | Sach Diwan | Vikas Wali will remember these introductions. Thank you for rolling with the punches. Thank you Nicole White for the recommendation. Matches were made; companies created and no surprise that Justin Stahl and the Chicago Bears brought the "W" Thank you Jason Pickart, Baker Tilly Digital | Nick Shafer, Lumen Technologies | Seth Morrell, Burwood Group | Al Ramundo, TEKsystems | Eric Sigurdson, Russell Reynolds Associates for your support! ChicagoCIO is back to business on Oct. 29 for a time honored CIOxChange that will bring answers to the room. Who makes you laugh in challenge? Join ChicagoCIO!

P33 Chicago is turbo-charging the tech ecosystem, promoting economic growth and building family sustaining roles through an apprentice Xchange Chicago on the South Side, and who gets a behind the scenes tour? YOU and your IT teams can follow the footsteps of ChicagoCIO members and guests yesterday for Inside P33, to experience an alliance of three key organizations P33, SDI Presence and the Gary Comer Youth Center. This post shares what you can do, in addition to what we did. I hope you seize this opportunity to #grow the #Chicago IT tech community for Q3/4. What will you experience? Our morning was impactful with tours through bustling and vibrant school hallways, a powerful panel conversation breaking down the Xchange Chicago facts and lunch with apprentices who shared their experiences at the XTerminal training center. o  The Gary Comer Youth Center: The compelling history and success of the Gary Comer Youth Center, home of the South Shore Drill Team, classrooms, exhibition halls, and onsite gardens. The synergy has led to a charter high school, middle school and now the Xchange. o  The Xchange Chicago: SDI is finalizing infrastructure to support 150 onsite apprentices trained in partnership with Catalyte, from South Side zip codes, where they receive a consistent pathway for day1 ready IT roles. o  Partnership Experience: We were fortunate to hear directly from WEC Energy Group and Northern Trust, early apprenticeship adopters invested in the ecosystem of Chicago. They are quickly moving from 4 to 20 in 2024. Molly Mulroy, MBA unpacked the long history of trust between SDI and WEC. Liju Augustine’s biggest surprise was the candidate to short list. They are happy to answer your questions! Key contributors to thank for building this opportunity? o  P33: Aleena Agrawal , Brad Henderson o  SDI: Hardik Bhatt & Christina Belmont o  Gary Comer Youth Center: Emily Emmerman | Oluwaseyi Olaleye | Rusty Putzler, MBA o  ChicagoCIO: Kevin Boyd, Bridget Quinlan, Thomas South Tony Barton Sabina Ewing o  ChicagoCIO Underwriter Executives: Seth Cooper, MSPM, PMP, CSM, Baker Tilly | Jim Hart, Burwood Group | Gary Gruber, Insight | Nick Shafer, Lumen | Al Ramundo, TEKsystems | Eric Sigurdson, Russell Reynolds #BigBets #LittleBets #ITTalent

Building on growth and momentum, ChicagoCIO is honored to welcome the 2024/25 Advisory Board. 🌟 🙏We look forward to your leadership recognizing peers in the 2025 Chicago CIO of the Year #ORBIE Awards & growing this #peer-led, noncommercial #TechnologyCommunity for technology leaders leading innovation in #Chicagoland. Special thanks to Kevin Boyd, University of Chicago for leading as Chair and to Tracy Harrington, Federal Reserve Financial Services her impressive leadership in 2024/25. ChicagoCIO is especially grateful for our Advisory Board Underwriter Executives Seth Cooper, MSPM, PMP, CSM, Baker Tilly Digital | Jim Hart, Burwood Group | Gary Gruber, Insight | Nick Shafer, Lumen Technologies | Al Ramundo, TEKsystems | Eric Sigurdson. Russell Reynolds Associates Who is in your peer community? Join ChicagoCIO! #TechnologyLeadership

Congratulations again to the 2024 National #ORBIE Finalists in the Corporate Category! Winners will be announced live August 15 at #Converge24 in Dallas, Texas. View all finalists by visiting https://lnkd.in/gGMKWWXi. Lisa Cochran, VyStar Credit Union (NorthFloridaCIO) Andrea Markstrom, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (NewYorkCIO) Arvind Rao, Texas Capital (CentralTexasCIO) Madhu Reddy, Republic Bank Of Chicago (ChicagoCIO) Art Silva, Helzberg Diamonds (KansasCityCIO) Sriram Thiagarajan, Ancestry (BayAreaCIO)