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Pamela J. StensonPresident & WIL Chair

With 30+ years experience in technology and management and a career-long dedication to developing great leaders, Pam Stenson, President of CIO Executive Council from IDG, is charged with advocating and influencing this community of the senior-most global business pioneers.

Having been part of the CEC since February 2007, Pam is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious IDG Communications Entrepreneur of the Year award. Pam is also active with the IT Women of South Florida, WEST.org and Suffolk University’s Center for Entrepreneurs.

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November 17, 2016

INNOTECH Austin Leveraging Your Power of Influence

Pam StensonCEC President

Women in Leadership Chair

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Ø Organizational performance improves with diverse leadership

Ø Low representation of women in senior Fortune 500 roles

Ø Women struggle to advance in IT

Ø Low representation of women in CIO roles – fewer than 10%

Ø Women possess equivalent or higher levels of work experience, skills, and education

Ø Women do not receive promotions to executive-level positions at same rate or proportion as men

Ø Women face more challenges in succeeding in male-dominated leadership

Ø Women have strong collaboration and influence skills

Ø Women lack strategic orientation competencies

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP FACTS

Journey to Future-State CIOⓇ

Strategic Orientation Definition

Ability to think long-term, interactively, and beyond one's own area.

It involves three key dimensions: 1. Business awareness2. Critical analysis & integration of information3. Ability to develop an action-oriented plan

Collaboration & Influence

Working effectively with, and influencing those outside of your functional area for positive impact on business performance.

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“Women do not tell when they are successful. Instead they wait for

recognition and reward…a wait that can last a career.”

- Patricia Gillette, Lawyer and Co-founder, Opt-In (for advancing women)

So What Are We Going To Do

About It?

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I. LEADERSHIP PRESENCE

II. COMMUNICATION

III. LEVERAGE YOUR POWER OF INFLUENCE

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“For people to follow some one willingly, the leader must be honest, forward-looking, inspiring, and competent.”

Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership1. Model the way2. Inspire a shared vision3. Challenge the process4. Enable others to act5. Encourage the heart

KOUZES AND POZNER, THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

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Ø “…can arise a creative impulse on people.”Ø Top women social media power influencers

(assessed and analyzed by software)Ø Women changing the worldØ Large impact on our lives because of their personal ability to

influence othersØ Advocate, vision leader

MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

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Women Making the World a

Better Place

whether you know their names or not….ØChai Jing

ØRula Ghani

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“Well-behaved women rarely make history”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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SELF-ASSESSMENT

“What is your greatest asset that you are

not leveragingto influence others?”

Thank You

Happy Holidays to you & yours

@ p a m s t e n s o np s t e n s o n @ c i o.c o m

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