Posts Tagged ‘Conference’

Data Center Leadership: From Servers to Servant Leadership

January 4th, 2010

I recently spoke about Servant Leadership principles to an audience of CIOs, CTOs and Data Center executives at the Next Data Center Conference. Attached below is a copy of the slides from that session.

From Servers to Servant Leadership - Data Center Leadership

From Servers to Servant Leadership - Data Center Leadership

The slides complimented the presentation and were not written to stand alone as an independent communication. However, if you have questions about the content or seek a speaker on the topic of Servant Leadership for your next meeting or conference, please contact me.

Conference Leadership Impressions from SAP SAPPHIRE

May 13th, 2009

I was very fortunate to be offered a coveted pass to SAP’s Sapphire conference last week. This is one of the larger conferences in the IT industry and specifically targets senior managers and executives requiring large-scale applications. As a result, although I was there for my employer and focused my time on their solutions, I also observed some of the leadership styles by so many information technology executives attending this conference. The attendance was down – a sign of the economic times, but there remained a broad range of leadership styles represented by Speakers, Vendors and Bloggers. Below are observations on the leadership styles these individuals presented at the conference*.

Speakers & SAP Executives (Positive)
While commitments back at the office prevented me from catching all of the keynote speakers and SAP executives presenting, I was able to get to most of the top keynotes. » Read more: Conference Leadership Impressions from SAP SAPPHIRE