IT Leadership Skills: Past to Present [video]
The skills needed to succeed in an IT organization have changed over the last decade. What are the skills needed now vs. then?
Raechelle (Rae) Clemmons is the senior manager for higher education business development and strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She has over 25 years of leadership experience in information technology, product management, marketing communications, business development, and sales across a number of industries, including higher education and technology start-ups. Over the last 10 years, she has served as CIO at Texas Woman’s University, Davidson College, St. Norbert College, and Menlo College.
Clemmons is a 2009 Frye Leadership Institute Fellow, holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Cal State East Bay, and is ITIL and Scrum certified. She has served on the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors and numerous advisory boards, including for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the Center for Higher Education Chief Information Officer Studies (CHECS), as well as on the EDUCAUSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force.
Clemmons is an enthusiastic writer and speaker on a wide variety of topics related to technology in higher education and has been recognized numerous times as one of the “most social CIOs” on Twitter, where she can be found at @rclemmons.
The skills needed to succeed in an IT organization have changed over the last decade. What are the skills needed now vs. then?
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