IT Leadership Forum

Managing IT People: It’s Called Herding Cats for a Reason

Carol Linden is a certified coach, author, and Master MBTI Practitioner. She has more than 18 years of experience helping IT professionals and engineers solve their ‘people problems’ by helping them understand the natural, healthy differences in personality and communication styles. Through her company, Effective with People, she delivers programs that use real-world situations and examples lead participants to insights about their own and others’ styles that they can use to communicate and influence even more effectively.

7 Simple Presentation Secrets that Increase Your Influence

Whether we’re talking with a direct report, meeting with the CEO, or speaking in front of an audience, we’re always presenting ourselves. What kind of impression are we making? Using practical, real-life examples, this fast-paced interactive program shares seven simple secrets of verbal, body, and slide language that will elevate your ability to influence and make the powerful impression you want.

In addition to organizing today’s CISO Leader Track, Wendy Gates Corbett is an author, speaker, and escaped global training executive. She has more than 20 years of experience presenting and consulting with presenters. She speaks around the country and around the world on the power of visuals, remaining relevant, and the power of belonging. She is the owner of Refresher Training, LLC, a company that works with professional athletes, speakers and business leaders helping them speak with impact and influence.

Conquer the Calendar: Manage Your Time to Find Your Genius

Do you have a calendar filled with meetings without a purpose? Do you have trouble working on your projects because you spend all day on the phone or putting out fires? It’s time to throw away your busy badge, stop the brick wall to decision-making, eliminate the distractions and schedule deep focus time, and boost meeting creativity and collaboration.

Marcey Rader is an award-winning, top-rated, speaker who packs presentations with actionable advice and real-world wisdom, decluttering your mind, body, and inbox, one habit at a time. She’s a productivity and health coach who believes it takes the right systems to save ourselves from ourselves and decrease decision fatigue. Her speaking roster’s alive with engagements for Fortune 100 companies, startups,and everyone in between. From North Dakota to Dubai, IT to construction to biotech. Marcey presents no-BS, no-excuses stories and strategies that help audiences transform their lives. No exaggeration: listeners leave with actions to implement IMMEDIATELY.

Mari is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of working in insurance, financial services, and technology industries. She is the Manager, IT Risk & Security | Global Technology at MetLife. Mari has been with MetLife for 14 years. For the last 9 years she has worked in the CIO, CTO and CISO offices managing programs, policies, standards, and the people who carry those out.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Champlain College.

John is the CIO for Hinckley Allen, a multi-service law firm with offices throughout the Northeast. He’s been with Hinckley Allen for 17 years. He is responsible for strategic planning, security, and the delivery of information and communication services to all firm employees.  John has over 25 years of IT experience which includes a broad knowledge of system and software development, project management, and vendor relationships.  His professional experience spans various roles across the Information Technology spectrum including software development, production operations, and executive management in organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 software company to a public university, and several start-ups.

Matt is responsible for global IT security at LexisNexis Legal and Professional. He and his team focus on the growing internal and external cybersecurity threats.  LexisNexis continues to expand their use of emerging technologies which creates a dynamic exciting environment to secure.  He has almost 30 years hands-on experience in Technology, Security, Compliance and Risk Management. Matt’s career has been focused across large global enterprises in various security roles at in various industries.  He received a BA in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

Eddie is the Director of IT Risk & Compliance at Abrigo (formerly Sageworks), an enterprise risk management company for banks and credit unions. His professional experience includes designing and executing audit programs and risk assessments that leverage leading frameworks, standards, and benchmarks with added focus in the financial services sector.

Before joining Abrigo he was an IT Risk Management Consultant at MetLife and an IT Auditor at BAE Systems. Eddie has a Master’s degree in Accounting from NC State and also completed the Master of Accounting (MAC) Program at NC State with an IT concentration.