151. How to become a Digital Leader

Phoenix, United States

Educating and coaching leaders, professionals and teams are Mart’s passion and is what he has been doing for nearly three decades. Mart works for INTERPROM, a coaching, consulting, training and education firm. Examples of areas he has specialized in are business relationship management, service management, information security management, and project and change management. He is looking forward to sharing his experience with you and to answering your questions.

Mart's proudest achievement: An achievement I’m looking back it is organizing, along with 20 passionate volunteers, a decade long, the annual Arizona ITSM Summit. A one-day event visited by 250+ local ITSM enthusiasts. And sponsored, year-after-year, by 20+ loyal vendors, including Forrester Research and Gartner.

Sunil is the Managing Director of Quint Consulting Services and responsible for the Training and Consulting business in India, Middle East and Africa.

He has relevant experience in the field of profit centre management, product planning, project management, process deployment, channel management and quality management.

He has a comprehensive background of IT education with rich experience with companies like Hewlett Packard, NIIT and Microland apart from Quint, which he joined in 2004.

Sunil is a post graduate in Computer Science and has an MBA in Marketing. Additionally he is a certified consultant in IT Services Management / ISO 20000 / COBIT, and Director of the itSMF India Chapter.

His proudest professional achievement was establishing Quint in India in 2004.

As an accomplished IT professional, Nigel has been part of the IT Best Practices sector for over 12 years, managing global operations as well as initiating & managing various key projects around the world, specifically in the IT Best Practices Education & IT Governance domains.

With a technical IT education background, Nigel has over 20 years of experience in IT, including Business Development, Operations, Global Program & Project Management, Education, Software Development and Consulting.

An effective communicator with a broad knowledge in most IT disciplines, Nigel heads up APMG's work across Africa and North America

Svetlana Sidenko, MSc (Admin), Master of Business Relationship Management (MBRM®), is the Vice President of IT Chapter the company of Group Apside, a Canadian women-owned company, which specializes in strategic BRM and IT Service Management consulting and training. Also, Svetlana is a leading member and actively supporting Canadian BRM Communities since 2015.

BRM Legend 2016

BRM Excellence award for the global impact 2018

Leader of BRM community in Canada and member of Knowledge Provision Committee

With 20 years of experience in Digital Technology, she excelled in various domains: BRM, ITSM, IT Governance, Business Transformations, Continual Improvement. Svetlana led teams towards BRM, ITSM & IT Governance implementation and Business Transformation as well as trained hundreds of students in BRM, ITIL, and COBIT. She is currently pursuing her PHD degree in UQO (Quebec, Canada) in Computer Science , as well as being certified in CGEIT®, ISACA, ITIL® Expert, PMP® and holds the designations of ITIL® Strategic Leader ( SL) and ITIL® Managing Professional (MP).

Mohamed is a delivery specialist who is responsible for handling customers' inquiries and concerns regarding an organisation's goods and services before proceeding with delivery plans. Mohamed demonstrates the products' features and other necessary information before the customers purchase the products. He is an enthusiastic Digital Transformation Enabler with 15 years of experience in different startups and government contractors involving products that impacted the Mena region and Europe in different sectors such as fintech, transportation, healthcare, education, oil, gas and government Digitization.

Mohamed's Awards and Nominations include:

• Best SE-SME For Q2-back office (Cubic Transportation Systems)
• Digital Transformation Keynote Speaker at Arab EmTech & Startups Conference 2020 - Cert of Attendance - EN
• testathon-2019 best Security issue tracker nominated from Facebook security team
• Internet Society member-Egypt chapter
• DevOps Certification Review Panel Board Member-DASA
• APMG -SME- Level Up Panel Speaker board member.
• ICYF-African FUTURE LEADER
• Africa change Maker Maker

Mohamed's proudest achievement:

He replaced the current independent programming test with a partnered problem that he could work on with the candidate. He also added interview questions that helped them assess each candidate's character and whether they might fit with the business's culture. Mohamed felt proud to substantially improve retention and identify more valuable members for the team.