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Jan Van Bruaene: “Hang out with your remote team”

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With weekly group meetings, regular 1-on-1 meetings, and almost daily conversations, I felt I was in tune with the team in Spain. Jan joined RTI in 2006 and has over 23 years of experience in technical and customer-facing leadership roles at companies such as Sun Microsystems and VLSI Technology. I was wrong.

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“Leadership visibility” With Charlie Katz & Chuck Stokes

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Chuck models servant leadership with an emphasis on coaching and team building while using Malcolm Baldrige criteria as a platform for driving operational excellence. I never returned to the clinical setting, but the clinical background proved to be instrumental in my career success. In 1986 I was a VP for operations at St.

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Andrew Hoag On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

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Can you tell us a bit about your background? Between the explosion of SaaS software and fractional services, the overwhelming shift to on-demand, and a rise in freelance and remote work, today’s purchasing department is no longer a centralized procurement team? Andrew loves to code; in fact, he created the first prototype of Teampay.

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Workday Podcast: Cybersecurity: An Inside View With Andreas Tomek of KPMG

Workday

Thomas : So, maybe before we dive into cybersecurity proper, can you give us a brief background on you and how you came to advise folks on this topic? I’ve always been interested in information security and systems. I spent some years with KPMG back in 2004 to 2006, working as an IT auditor doing security. In the U.S.,

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Jake Horne of The Student Compass: “Continued uptake of Artificial Intelligence systems and Robotics in business applications displacing humans in repetitive operations”

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Can you tell us a bit about your background? I founded The Student Compass in 2006 as a mentoring and resource organization designed to support students in future planning, developing self-awareness, self-agency, forward thinking habits in planning, and in forming strategies to act on those plans. Where do you come from?

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Terron Sims II: “Maintain a positive attitude”

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Can you tell us a bit about your military background? In February 2006, I went to a bar in Georgetown with a friend, and on the way, he kept talking about how much I needed to meet his friend Mike?—?that My mom drove our Chevy Malibu with me and my brother in tow and my dad drove his hoopty as the lead vehicle. Can you explain?