Understanding the Game of Executive Leadership: Strategies to Win

by Insights From Black Technology Executives

Understanding the Game of Executive Leadership: Strategies to Win is designed to allow one to identify relevant concepts to leverage and advance successfully as a leader. There is a broad spectrum of leadership experiences, filled with candor, exceptional advice, and occasional humor. If you care about attracting and retaining exceptional talent, developing others, maintaining innovative excellence, leading at the next level, the development of your most important asset (people), and maintaining balance, then this book is for you.

The development of this publication is the result of the leadership journey in the IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) Executive Academy. The Executive Academy (EA) is designed to enhance the performance and leadership skills of senior technology managers and executives responsible for leading the broader organization and optimizing the enterprise. The EA has exceeded expectations, with the essence of being directed by an industry expert, exposure to dynamic CEOs and CIOs as speakers and authors, and immense collaboration among cohort members from various industries. The leaders in this program would agree that they did not enter with all the answers, and they did not leave with all the answers. However, they are better positioned and galvanized for maximizing their purpose and value in their respective organizations, industries, families, and communities, while providing perspectives to encourage other leaders to pursue the same.

The ITSMF Executive Academy 2022 cohort, as authors of this content, consist of executive leaders from some of the most important enterprises in the country. The biographies of academic achievement, professional experiences, and exemplary standards substantiate the wide range of illustrative elements for leadership excellence.

Louis Buell
Richard Constable
Harry Craan
Natalie Delemar
Jane Harper
David Hopson
Johanna R. Jones
Andre Kearns
Launa L. Lawhorn
Debra Logan-Rabb
Rasheed Merritt
Cathy Mitchell
Samara Moore
Nathan Mozelle
Kenneth Murray
Funmi Olowo
Wilhelmenia Ravenell
Paul Reid
Shaun Samuels
Dr. Julius K. Smith
Shelton Smith
Joel Stephen
Wesley Story
Dr. Shannon J. Thomas
DeChanta Walker
Ronnie Yates
Dr. Damita Zweiback