The CIO Pathway: Challenges, Choices, and Leadership Growth
Explore with us how modern technology leaders navigate change, build influence, and create impact through unconventional career pathways.
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About this event
Stepping into a CIO role isn’t just a promotion - it’s a fundamental shift in how you lead, influence, and create impact across the business.
Our June Tech Connect event is designed for tech professionals who are ready to move beyond delivery and into strategic leadership. As organisations place increasing expectations on technology to drive innovation, growth, and resilience, the pathway to CIO has never been more complex, or more critical.
Whether you’re an emerging leader or a senior technologist with CIO ambitions, this is your opportunity to better understand the path ahead, and how to navigate it with confidence.
Attend this event to learn:
- What separates strong technical leaders from impactful executive leaders, and how to bridge that gap
- How to build credibility and influence with boards, executives, and non-technical stakeholders
- The critical decisions that can accelerate (or derail) your pathway to CIO
- How to lead through ambiguity, competing priorities, and organisational change
- The mindset shifts required to move from delivering technology to shaping business strategy
Because the journey to CIO isn’t linear, it’s defined by the choices you make and the leader you become along the way.
Speakers
Aarti Joshi is the Group Chief Information Officer at the Department of Customer Service. This department is making it easier to deal with government by driving improvements in customer service, and ensuring digital services benefit all 8 million+ citizens of NSW.
With a career spanning nearly 2 decades, Aarti has established herself as a visionary leader in technology and public service, overseeing a range of innovative projects that enhance the delivery of enterprise technology services across the sector. In her role as Group CIO, Aarti oversees the strategy and delivery of technology products and services delivered to a team of more than 24,000 people across numerous agencies and entities in the public sector. Prior to joining the public sector, Aarti held various senior technology and business leadership roles within Woolworths Group, including Head of IT where she led world-class enterprise transformation programs.
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