O&A regularly hosts educational and developmental webinars on a range of IT transformation and talent development topics.
Learn about upcoming webinars and virtual events here.
"We can choose to retreat — and, by default, let others fill the void — or we can rise to the occasion and shape our own future."

Read Dan Roberts on courage, communication, change, and more: Leading in Time of Crisis: The 7 Cs of Leadership
MIT’s George Westerman noted that there has never been a better time to be a great CIO, nor a worse time to be an average one.

​Author and CIO Whisperer Dan Roberts has dedicated his 30+ year career to working with and studying the best CIOs across the globe. Through this work, he has identified a set of traits that differentiate the top performing CIOs and technology leaders.

Courage, Customer Centricity, Communication, Culture, Cultivate, Change Leadership, Collaboration

Join Dan as he unpacks these traits through a series of highly engaging conversations featuring top CIOs, industry thought leaders, and bestselling authors. Learn from these experts and take away practical tips, action steps, additional reading and resources to help you shift from defense to offense so you can “Cs” the day!
​Scaling the 7Cs

​Check back regularly as we continue to add speakers and topics!
> Access previous webinars on topics ranging from managing talent risk to translating IT strategy to flawless execution.
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Leading Change Across IT and the Enterprise: How CIOs Are Unlocking Business Value
​The 7 Cs of Leadership Series
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In these times of accelerating transformation and disruption, IT leaders have a tremendous opportunity to become champions of change. By leveraging your unique end-to-end view of the enterprise, along with cross-functional relationships, you can look out at the horizon to identify and lead business-impacting, industry-disrupting change.

In this "fireside chat" webinar, you'll learn from the experiences of one of the very best leaders in our profession. Dani Brown is an award-winning CIO and champion of change. She epitomizes the “leader as teacher” philosophy while being grounded by humility, intense curiosity, and a passion for learning. Dani brings focus and calm at a time when everything seems uncertain. She brings energy and the ability to energize at a time when people are fatigued. Dani Brown is the kind of leader we all strive to be.

​Moderator Dan Roberts will collaborate with Dani to unpack the business strategies, leadership philosophies, and practical techniques that will enable you to bring people along on an ever-accelerating change journey.
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Building Your Future-Ready Workforce: Differentiate Your Strategy with a Holistic Workforce Planning Framework
The 7 Cs of Leadership Series
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As emerging trends and technologies disrupt existing industries and incumbent firms, so too will they disrupt the skill needs of your workforce. In fact, a recent survey by KPMG found that 67% of tech workers are concerned about being replaced by automation while only 44% of workers overall share this same concern. Are these tech workers the canaries in the coal mine, or are they simply unaware of the new set of skills that will set them and their companies up for future success?
 
In order to build a future-ready organization, you must understand the critical skills necessary for every individual within your team, both today and in the future. In this webinar, Will Markow, who leads Burning Glass Technologies’ research into emerging job market trends, skill gaps, and workforce development opportunities, will join O&A CEO Dan Roberts to share a workforce strategy framework and unique labor market analytics that will help you learn how to:
  • pinpoint the future-ready skills your team needs to avoid disruption
  • build a skill-based workforce strategy that enables you to upskill your workers with laser focus
  • unlock new levels of productivity, internal mobility, and adaptability across your workforce
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Innovation Through Crisis
Hear from the Experts!

As we grapple with the COVID-19 crisis, what can we learn from past disruptions like the 2008 financial crisis, Enron, and others? Hear from two business-savvy HR leaders, Michelle Greenstreet and David Oxley, who not only led their organizations through these crises but also positioned them to thrive on the other side. 

Now more than ever, our organizations are looking to HR and IT to become Strategic Partners and “Innovative Anticipators.” These functions must contribute to new revenue generation, orchestrate a new customer and employee experience, and help their organizations become a disruptor in the market. Join Dan Roberts, CEO of Ouellette & Associates, and Cindy Olson, Founder, Executive Strategic Alliance, for this highly engaging, practical, and timely webinar.

PANELISTS:
  • Michelle Greenstreet, Chief Administrative Officer, Lurin: Michelle was previously Senior VP of HR for Citigroup and led the company through the 2008 financial crisis.
  • David Oxley, Group VP, BP: David was previously the business lead for Enron’s trading organization. He also led BP through the crisis in the Gulf.
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Digital as a Force Multiplier: New Thinking & Strategies to Win Today
The 7 Cs of Leadership Series

Claus Jensen is different. He comes at problems from different angles. He thinks about the competitive landscape in different ways. He asks different questions. These (and other) key differentiators are what enable him to think about digital as a force multiplier, curate an entirely new customer experience, and drive toward lifelong relationships. Oh, and did we mention, cure cancer!

Join Claus and O&A CEO Dan Roberts for a high energy conversation covering a number of topics that keep leaders up at night. You’ll learn Claus’ secret sauce in the areas of digital transformation, innovation, serving the needs of the whole human, storytelling, and building a future-ready digital workforce.

Claus Jensen is the first Chief Digital & Technology Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center. When he is not helping MSK cure cancer, he is busy submitting patents (14 to date) and publishing books, including his newly released “Digital Transformation for Dummies” (Wiley).  
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Changing the IT Narrative: The Journey from Good to GreatThe 7 Cs of Leadership Series: Customer Centricity

When he took the reins as CIO of MIT Lincoln Lab three years ago, Bob Solis knew that he was inheriting a good team with the potential to be great. So he made strategic investments to embed a new customer-centric mindset and develop the corresponding new skillsets. With Amazon-like customer obsession, his team identified and improved the critical Moments of Truth that most impacted their business partners. Almost immediately, IT started to "show up" differently, and people noticed. By earning trust and credibility, IT found itself invited to the first meeting of new business initiatives. They were leading and influencing the conversation.

Discover how to equip your team to show up with greater competence, confidence, commitment, and consistency—and make the shift from technical solution providers to Strategic Partners and Innovative Anticipators. In this highly engaging webinar, you'll learn from Solis's IT culture transformation and pick up valuable insights to inform your own leadership strategy for building a culture of customer centricity.

> Kickstart your journey! Equip your team with the strategies, skills, and tools to create a culture of service excellence. Learn how. 
IT Leadership Webinar: Courageous Leadership
​Courageous Leadership: Building Backbone to Boost Results​
The 7 Cs of Leadership Series

In times of change and uncertainty too many workers become safety-seekers, often to the detriment of their organizations. When fear directs workers’ behaviors, they become distracted, afraid, and unproductive, just when their companies need them to be the opposite.
 
Bill Treasurer, founder of Giant Leap Consulting and author of the internationally bestselling book, Courage Goes to Work, is considered the originator of the new organizational development practice of “courage-building.” In this webinar, he’ll draw on the practices that have been taught to thousands of employees across the globe to help you be more personally courageous and help you inspire more courageous behavior among those you’re charged with leading.
 
This webinar explores:
  • Why courage is the premier personal and professional virtue
  • How to empower and engage people by modulating comfort and discomfort
  • How to clearly differentiate between two different leadership dispositions
  • The distinct types of courage (TRY, TRUST, and TELL) and how to differentiate among them
  • How to create an environment that supports ongoing courageous behavior
  • Tips on how to increase your own courage while inspiring more workplace courage
Culture Renovation: A Blueprint for Action
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Culture is the fuel that can either enable an organization to soar to new heights or cause it to burn to the ground. But influencing or changing organizational culture is not easy. In fact, new research from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) shows that only 15% of culture change efforts are successful to a high extent. 
 
During this 30 minute webinar, Ouellette & Associates CEO and HR2IT Founder Dan Roberts, and i4cp Chief Research Officer Kevin Martin shared key results and actionable insights collected from more than 5,000 organizations worldwide. The results reveal leadership actions closely linked to driving and sustaining a successful culture transformation. 

This webinar covered:
  • The key actions and practices that have the greatest impact before and during a culture transformation
  • How high-performance organizations successfully measure and monitor their workforce transformation efforts
  • Why company culture now more than ever is a strategic business imperative

Click here to download a copy of the Executive Brief,  with a summary of the survey results and implications.
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