238- Leading with Heart and Delivering Results: Dan Roberts on IT Leadership

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dan Roberts Dan Roberts is a sought-after IT leadership advisor with over 30 years of experience developing leaders and teams. His firm coined the term “Developing the Human Side of Technology” in 1984. Dan believes there’s never been a better time to be in IT and has mentored thousands of CIOs on elevating the profession. Through his podcast Tech Whisperers (https://www.ouellette-online.com/techwhisperers.html), writing, and consulting, he helps technologists embrace new mindsets and skillsets to differentiate themselves as strategic business partners. Leading with Heart and Delivering Results: Dan Roberts on IT Leadership In this engaging discussion, veteran IT leader Dan Roberts, host of Tech Whisperers podcast (https://www.ouellette-online.com/techwhisperers.html) shares his decades of wisdom to help IT professionals thrive in leadership roles. You’ll hear Dan’s insights on critical skills like active listening, coaching team members, leading with heart while still delivering results, and progressing into more strategic roles. Expect candid advice on avoiding common mindsets like “victim-itis”, having courageous conversations, and becoming an innovative anticipator within your organization.

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0:00.0	We are talking with Dan Roberts from one of many, many different universes, one being
0:16.3	tech whisperers.
0:17.8	Welcome to the show.
0:19.4	I don't know how you want to introduce yourself.
0:20.7	I'll just let you introduce yourself however you would like. And we're doing more collaboration
0:26.9	than usual lately. So you have a great, you have a great show and a CIO network and IT leadership
0:34.5	piece that you do yourself. So go ahead, fire away. Yeah, Phil,
0:39.5	thanks so much for having me. And thanks for what you do for our community. This show is helping
0:44.8	a lot of folks. I love it. So I appreciate it. Maybe it'll pay back someday. Someday we'll make
0:50.4	money. Maybe someone will want to advertise, you know. That's just my own laziness. I should go out and ask for advertisers. I guess hope really isn't a strategy, you know, as far as
1:00.1	as, you know, leadership pieces and that's advice to everyone out there. Hope is not a strategy.
1:04.7	So I should stop hoping that someday someone will pay me something for all of this work.
1:08.8	But until then, it's a labor of love. So I appreciate that. I get it. Nights and weekends right there with you. Yeah.
1:15.6	Nights and weekends are free. They're not. They actually are costing me, but okay, go ahead.
1:21.6	Right. That's right. We want to stay married and all those good good things. But yeah, so Dan Roberts,
1:26.4	Tech Whisper's podcast. And, you know, Phil,
1:29.1	I always say my thing is I'm not a storyteller. I'm a teller of other people's stories,
1:35.6	kind of like what you do. And I love, I love doing that through the podcast, through panels and
1:41.9	fireside chats, the day job, the stuff that pays the bills for 40 years now,
1:47.2	we have focused on developing the human side of technology.
1:51.6	So I don't know if we know, but there's actually humans out there.
1:54.6	There are people behind the keyboards.
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