Technology Magazine May 2022 | Page 26

FIVE MINUTES WITH ...
Q . WHAT INITIALLY DREW YOU TO WORK FOR THE COMPANY ?

» I stumbled across ThoughtExchange ’ s one office ( we are remote-first but do have an office that people can drop into in the town where our founders live ) when I was on vacation . At the time , I was the Chief Digital Officer at STS and as mentioned earlier , was trying to manage a global transformation . I felt that I had so many tools in my toolbox that helped me with the complicated parts of change , like Gantt charts and financial analysis but nothing that helped me actually understand how people felt about the changes we were proposing , and also what we had missed . Ever since the “ iceberg of ignorance ” conversation was started in the 80 ’ s , all self-aware leaders have been painfully aware of their own bias and lack of access to the collective intelligence of the rest of the people in their organisation .

Q . IN TERMS OF GROWTH , WHAT ’ S NEXT FOR YOUR BUSINESS ?

» We will continue our growth journey together with the most progressive companies and leaders in North America in the next little while and then I imagine that we will start looking at the rest of the world . We have seen double or triple digit growth every year for the last few years and I don ' t see any indicators of that slowing down as leaders

“ WE WILL CONTINUE OUR GROWTH JOURNEY TOGETHER WITH THE MOST PROGRESSIVE COMPANIES AND LEADERS IN NORTH AMERICA ”

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