Welcome to Connecting Dots! Leaders are generally expected to inspire and create a vision for their team or company, and unite people, processes and systems to enable that vision. On the contrary, engineers are typically more focused on creating products and services; taking ideas and making them into reality. However, there are a number of overlapping attributes and experiences that make engineers great business leaders. To bust this stereotype, we’ve invited Kevin Stoodley, who hails from an engineering background and gradually transitioned to become a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at IBM Z.

In this episode, Kevin delves deeper into the role of a CTO at a company, which is critical in today’s age with new, potentially disruptive technologies surfacing increasingly. He also reflects on the traits of the teams that tend to thrive and survive longer in an organization; importance of client communication; as well as general hierarchy of different job roles within engineering.Amidst listening to all the job hopping stories around you, tune in to this episode to hear a different perspective of rather transitioning from a junior to an executive at a company.

Hope Kevin’s plethora of professional advice and reflection on his remarkable career journey inspires you to make informative decisions about yours. YouTube: https://youtu.be/sXDGUAqUtFQ

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