Plus: Preserving Your Culture While Teams Work Remotely; A Featured CIO Placement in the Insurance Sector.
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The Heller Report: You and Your CIO Career
01.28.2021 Subscribe

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

  1. How One CIO (and Hockey Coach) Turns Players into Leaders
  2. Preserving Your Culture While Teams Work Remotely
  3. 7 Essential Skills You’ll Need for a CIO Job in 2021
  4. Featured Executive Placement: CIO of GeoVera

Hi Friend,

Tyler Best has been developing IT leaders for decades. He has served as CIO for Vanguard Car Rental, YP (Yellow Pages), Hertz, and is now CIO of Adient, the $16 billion automotive parts company. Best can cite more than 25 up-and-comers who have worked for him and then moved into senior IT roles in other companies.

Best has also developed his leadership skills through a 20-year career as a youth hockey coach. Nine of the young people he has coached are now in the NHL—one of whom was the top draft pick for the Detroit Red Wings—and more than 50 have received Division I scholarships or are playing at the collegiate level. “Whether I am coaching hockey players or future CIOs, my focus is less on the mechanics of the job than on turning players into leaders,” he says. Learn more about Best and his leadership development strategies in today's lead item.

Martha   Martha Heller

1. How One CIO (and Hockey Coach) Turns Players into Leaders

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In Martha Heller's latest article on CIO.com, Tyler Best, CIO of Adient, discusses how he develops future IT leaders by providing his team with accountability, board exposure, and continual feedback.

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2. Preserving Your Culture While Teams Work Remotely

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Like all hotel chains, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, one of the world’s largest, saw occupancy rates plummet in the early days of the pandemic. But rather than put technology on hold, the company accelerated its investments in digital solutions and a “contactless” guest experience. In this interview, Wyndham CIO Scott Strickland shares more on the company's response to the crisis, and new strategies he has discovered that help keep his IT team connected, and their culture alive.

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3. 7 Essential Skills You’ll Need for a CIO Job in 2021

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There has been an increase in job openings for CIOs in the first weeks of 2021. But after reviewing how their companies responded to the overlapping economic and health crises of 2020, many CEOs are looking to hire a new breed of tech leader: someone who can get things done quickly amid uncertainty. In this article, Martha Heller and other search professionals describe the evolved skillset required to land one of these coveted CIO positions.​

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4. Featured Executive Placement: CIO of GeoVera

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Heller Search was recently retained to recruit a CIO for GeoVera Holdings, a provider of specialty property insurance products​ that is headquartered outside San Francisco in Fairfield, CA. Mark Chequer brings a wealth of information security and data architecture expertise to GeoVera, and he is an experienced CIO and CTO. Most recently, he was CIO of CSE Insurance. He reports to the CEO of GeoVera, John Forney. Congratulations, Mark!
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All the best,

Heller Search Martha Heller
CEO, Heller Search Associates
martha@hellersearch.com