227- From Cockpits to C-Suites: Lessons in Leadership from Air Force Pilot Cliff Rich

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Cliff Rich Cliff Rich brought over 20 years of military leadership experience to civilian roles at Cardinal Health, including managing a 120-person IT team. As an Air Force pilot, he flew helicopters and aircraft while taking on staff and command positions. Cliff leveraged his background to transition to IT and HR, starting in mergers & acquisitions before moving into project management and leadership roles. He provides mentoring to help fellow veterans pivot to corporate careers. From Cockpits to C-Suites: Lessons in Leadership from Air Force Pilot Cliff Rich Join us as former Air Force pilot Cliff Rich shares his journey transitioning from military service to civilian leadership roles. Learn how he leveraged his skills as a helicopter and aircraft pilot to excel in IT and HR management. Discover strategies Cliff used to network and position himself as an attractive candidate. Gain insights on the obstacles veterans face entering the corporate world, and how leaders can support their transition. Expect straight talk on misconceptions of military service, and why veterans make invaluable additions to your team. You’ll come away with actionable tips to aid your own career growth.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone back to, I'm speaking English, I guess, today.
0:12.5	Welcome, one, everybody.
0:13.8	Back to Dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:15.7	Today, we are with Cliff, Rich.
0:19.5	Did I get it right?
0:20.2	Yeah, you got right. You got it right. Sometimes we flip it backwards, you know. The man, the man with Cliff Rich. Did I get it right? Yeah.
0:21.3	You got right.
0:23.5	Sometimes we flip it backwards, you know?
0:25.4	The man with two first names.
0:27.9	Welcome to, I have two first names too, Phil Howard.
0:29.3	Howard Phillips.
0:31.4	I mean, he was like the Nintendo power guy.
0:35.2	Remember he was like the president of Nintendo back in the 80s or something like that.
0:38.5	I was kind of like, I kind of wish my name was Howard Phillips back then, but anyways, welcome to the show, director, HR information technology. That's a new
0:45.4	title for me. That's a new title for me. Cardinal Health. What is it, what is HR information technology?
0:50.2	So you're just in charge of HR technology. You're not in charge of like the cows that we push around, the wireless units and the, in various different medical things.
0:57.4	Or what are you in charge of for technology over there?
0:59.5	Yeah.
0:59.7	So like you said, HR technology, my team supports most of our SaaS operands that are employee facing.
1:08.8	So that's Workday, the ServiceNow platform that we use for our My HR portal.
1:14.9	We use UKG dimensions for time tracking, cornerstone for learning, and then Adobe sign
1:21.3	per electronic signature.
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