Solutions provider STA kicks off their 2012 Strategies in Leadership series by bringing customers and partners together for an all-access Executive Retreat.
Information Technology and its role in the organization are at an inflection point. Corporate and Line of Business Executives understand IT is essential and strategic to their company’s success; however, many do not feel IT is optimally deployed in the organization today.
If we accept this premise as generally true, it suggests IT leaders need to develop leadership skills to help them align IT projects and goals directly to stated business strategy and become a “partner” to the executive team across the organization, enabling the team to use IT as a strategic differentiator.
Our 2012 Strategies in Leadership program is based upon this premise and, at the request of members attending last year, is focused on leadership development – both personal and professional.
Members of Strategies in Leadership spend two days at the Montage Laguna Beach. The event will begin with arrivals on the evening of Tuesday, September 18, followed by a full day of sessions on Wednesday, September 19.
Featured Speaker Bios:
As a Premier Leadership Coach and Mentor, Vance focuses on helping leaders create fulfillment for themselves and their organizations. His clients create more of the life they want while creating the financial results their stakeholders deserve. His extensive background includes being a successful senior executive, entrepreneur, coach, professor, team builder, author, publisher and leadership coach.
His current clients include Deloitte & Touche, eBay, Rockwell Collins, Panda Restaurant Group, East/West Bank, Experian, Velocity Sports, Snyder/Langston, Pacific Sunwear, Outrigger Hotels, Canon, Danaher, Toyota, Freedom Communications, Boeing, Autobytel, Smith Sport, Broadcom, Washington Mutual, A.D.P., S.B.C., Silverado Senior Living, Wells Fargo, Edwards LifeSciences, McDermott and Bull Executive Search and Countrywide Mortgage. He is a sought after resource for WPO and YPO chapters and regularly holds weekend retreats for CEO’s at his mountain retreat center in Southern California.
Vance has been on a wide variety of profit, nonprofit and advisory boards. His affiliations began as Florida’s top Charter President of the US Jaycees in 1969. He has also been on a wide variety of profit, nonprofit and advisory boards. Current affiliations include: Founder of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, President and Mentor for Orange County’s Stanford Business School Alumni Association, Founder and President of the Young Leader’s Organization, a professor in leadership and entrepreneurism with Pepperdine University for M.B.A. and Doctoral candidates and a board member of Silverado Senior Living, Inc. He has been in ‘Who’s Who in America’ for over thirty years and was a regular contributor to the Franklin Covey magazine Priorities.
Vance has been the operating head of publicly owned daily newspapers, owned his own media group, led groups of executives in myriad developmental situations and been an individual and organizational consultant. His interest is in life-long learning and stimulating the entrepreneurial spirit in each person with whom he works, while helping each be a ‘Happy High Achiever’.
Vance holds a BS degree from The Citadel, a Master’s in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University, is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program, and has his Ph.D. from Walden University in Organizational Psychology. His doctoral research was on personality characteristics associated with high achieving executives who became successful entrepreneurs, 92% of whom reported they are not happy. His work the last two decades has emphasized coaching leaders to be part of the eight percent of high achievers who are happy.
Married to Dr. Carol Ann Caesar, a psychologist, for 41 years, they have one son Eric who is an executive recruiter. Vance and Carol Ann published Uncommon Career Success and The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness. He is a frequent speaker to national and local audiences.
Joel is a seasoned, well-rounded executive offering leadership and vision based upon over thirty years of experience working for major organizations in a broad spectrum of functions. He’s spent the last 16 years in transformational Chief Information Officer roles and the prior 18 years in many functions in commercial real estate including leasing, finance, development, operations, marketing, construction and utilities.
As the Chief Technology Officer of the County of Orange, Joel ran an IT Service Delivery business for the central shared service IT function. Results included increasing customer satisfaction by a sustained 16% over two years and achieving a top 10% industry benchmark for IT operations while simultaneously reducing costs by 27%. Operationally, he improved the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the County’s 66,000 square foot data center by 10%.
In the CIO role at The Irvine Company results include managing hyper growth while quadrupling output and achieving technical reliance on system-generated financial statements. At The Rouse Company, he orchestrated a $9.1 million turnaround of a large commercial real estate business including executing energy saving initiatives that resulted in $4.0 million in annual energy cost savings and $3.0 million in utility company rebates. Joel consulted with the EPA in the early 1990s and was instrumental in the applicability of the EnergyStar program to commercial real estate; he had one of the first EnergyStar buildings in the US. In addition, he created the first CRM system for the real estate industry targeted at retail (from the landlord side). In 2007, he was named one of the top 100 CIOs in the US acknowledging work in Green Technology and received a Digital Impact award “for consistently demonstrating leadership qualities related to the Real Estate IT industry, for willingness to test and implement leading-edge technologies and for persistence in the quest for international best practices”. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Southern California’s chapter of the Society of Information Management, on the CIO Advisory Board for UCLA’s Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise (WINMEC), on the Advisory Board of the Technology Business Management Council and on the Advisory Board of CleanTecOC. He is also a mentor for UCI’s Executive MBA program and Chapman University’s MBA program. Previously, he was the founding Chairman of the CIO Roundtable sponsored by the University of California at Irvine's CRITO Consortium (Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations) and The Paul Merage School of Business and was also was the Chairman of the Advisory Council of Realcomm. Joel is an active speaker in industry events on a broad range of topics including Cloud Computing, Green Technology, IT Strategic Planning, IT Trends, IT Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Portfolio Management, IT Service Management (ITIL) and IT Controls.