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This week on Leaders and Legends, Ghada Ijam, CIO of the Federal Reserve System, joins host Aileen Black to discuss the role technology played in the agency's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends in Government, Dave Wennergren, CEO of ACT-IAC joins host Aileen Black to talk about leadership and the challenges of leadership during the upcoming presidential election. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Dave Spirk, the new chief data officer at the Department of Defense, joins Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to talk about leadership and to discuss the new data strategy that will empower every level of the agency to leverage data more effectively. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends Casey Coleman, senior vice president for Digital Transformation Global Public Sector at Salesforce, joins host Aileen Black to discuss leadership during a crisis. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends Bobbi Kilberg, president and CEO of Northern Virginia Technology Council, joins Aileen Black to discuss her 50 years of experience in government and the northern Virginia technology landscape. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Nick Beim, partner in the venture capital firm Venrock, joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to discuss the technology race between the United States and China, and how the US is adjusting to the changing technology landscape. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends Felix Van de Maele, CEO of high-tech unicorn Collibra, joins Aileen Black to share his journey and leadership advice for start up and high growth companies. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Essye Miller, the Defense Department's first black female principal deputy CIO is retiring. This week she joins host Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to share her experience and wisdom about leadership. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Lt. General Jack Shanahan, former director of DoD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to discuss his philosophy of leadership during a crisis. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Balan Ayyar, CEO of Percipient AI, joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to discuss crisis leadership during the Covid 19 epidemic and how artificial intelligence can address problems that have surfaced in national security and healthcare. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Suzette Kent, chief information officer at the Office of Management and Budget. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviewed Emily Murphy, administrator of the General Services Administration. Murphy leads a staff of more than 11,000 GSA employees nationwide, overseeing more than 369 million square feet of property, and approximately $68 billion in annual contracts. Her previous public service includes an appointment at the SBA, and nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Committee on Small Business and Armed Services Committee. Murphy also...
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Roger Baker, former chief information officer at the Department of Veteran Affairs and current consultant and board member. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Mark Weber, former president U.S. Public Sector for NetApp, former president of Weber Strategies and current professor at Catholic University. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Pete Tseronis, former chief technology officer at the Energy Department and founder and CEO of Dots and Bridges. Tseronis is an entrepreneur, business executive, and cyber security strategist with 27+ years leading myriad Cabinet-level and commercial entities. He is the founder and CEO of the consulting firm, Dots and Bridges, LLC and maintains several advisory board roles. Tseronis has held several executive level positions in the g...
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Jim Williams, former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service and current partner at Schambach & Williams Consulting. Williams has more than thirty years of federal government experience both in public and private sector. He worked as a senior executive for over 18 years in several government departments and agencies and was GSA’s acting administrator, the first federal acquisition commissioner, first director of the U.S. ...
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviewed Michael Amouri, owner of Caffe Amouri. Amouri shared how he went from successful TV producer to building an award-winning coffee shop dedicated to not only serving a great cup of coffee but also serving the community. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Marjorie Dannenfelser, current president and an original organizer of the Susan B. Anthony List, shares her lifetime journey of finding a mission and passion that has millions of supporters and motivates her everyday. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of CNSI, and the former CEO of the Inova Center for Personalized Health. CNSI is a health IT firm with offices in the Washington, D.C. region, nationally, and internationally. Sottlemyer has received numerous honors for business and community leadership, including recognition as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the Washington, D.C. region by the Washington Business Journal; and as one of the 50 most in...
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Janice Glover-Jones, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Glover-Jones said she harnessed her power of belief to reach success that she feels, only decades ago, would not have been possible. Discussion highlights: -Why strong spiritual belief has been an important foundation in her career. -Her career journey from a GS-1 to the Senior Executive Service. -How her 12-month assignment at Dell...
This week on Leaders and Legends, host Aileen Black interviews Sue Ribot and Rob McHale, Client Partners, Korn Ferry International. Sue and Rob have decades of experience recruiting for some of the most influential C Suites positions in the Government and the Technology Industry. Finding Executive talent with both Government and Technology strengths today is very competitive game. The market is hot. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...
Tiffany Norwood, CEO at Tribetan, discusses the art of storytelling and explains why its important for business owners to master that skill. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, host Aileen Black welcomed Thomas Luebke, the secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. Luebke was also the editor of the photo and history book, "Palace of the State: The Eisenhower Executive Office Building," published in August 2018. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, host Aileen Black welcomed Margaret Phalen, the manager of the Octagon House and Marci Reed, executive director of the Architects Foundation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, host Aileen Black spoke with Mary Oehrlein, a historic preservation officer at Architect of the Capitol (AOC). Her position centers on serving Congress, preserving about 15 different buildings — including the Capitol, congressional office buildings, Library of Congress buildings and the Supreme Court’s two buildings — and inspiring the people who visit the buildings and those who work in them. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...
On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, Aileen Black spoke with Tom Jacobus, the general manager of the Washington Aqueduct, servicing the District of Columbia and parts of Northern Virginia. The aqueduct has been in place since 1853, and still operates with the original legacy of having a gravity-based system. He said using this simple system saves hundreds of thousands of dollars in pumping costs each year. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...
More than five million people get their drinking water from the Potomac River Basin. On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, Aileen Black spoke with Michael Nardolilli, executive director of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, Aileen Black spoke with Nancy Witherell, a historic preservation officer for the national capital region with the General Services Administration’s Public Building Service. PBS is the agency’s real estate arm. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
What did the CIA look like at the end of the Cold War and how has it evolved since? On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, Aileen Black spoke with Doug Wolfe, former director of science and technology at the CIA. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
John Zangardi, CIO Department of Homeland Security, discussed his 30-plus year career – from his home town of Scranton, PA to the halls of DHS – on Leaders and Legends in Government with Aileen Black. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
