If your leadership team is always busy but never quite focused on the right things and you're still the one who has to sort out which initiatives actually matter, this episode is for you.
Teresa Duran, Chief Information Officer at Tree Top Inc., is an award-winning technology executive with over two decades of experience leading large-scale transformations across multiple industries, including biotech, pharma, and nonprofit. She was recognized with the 2023 SeattleCIO ORBIE Award for leading the largest transformation in Make-A-Wish America's 43-year history.
In this conversation, Teresa unpacks why organizations, even well-resourced ones, keep chasing the wrong priorities, and how the CEOs and CIOs who actually move fast build simple, repeatable filters so their leaders can make better calls without waiting for direction from the top.
You'll learn:
- Why "too many initiatives" is a leadership structure problem, not a workload problem and the top-five filter that cuts the noise fast
- How to tell the difference between what's important and what actually has impact at the company level
- What effective decision-making looked like when Teresa's team delivered a three-year technology roadmap in one year, during COVID
- Why bringing your technology leader into M&A and divestiture planning early reduces risk and increases your company's attractiveness to buyers
- How to prepare your leadership bench to stay ahead of AI disruption without chasing every tool that hits the market
If your regional managers or functional leaders are still running to you every time something feels uncertain, or your company is spending money on tools and projects that aren't moving the needle, this episode gives you a practical framework to change that.
Listen now. Then share this with another CEO or operator who's tired of sorting through the noise so their team doesn't have to.
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