264- The CIO Journey: Kenny Mullican on Leading Through Change

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Kenny Mullican Kenny Mullican is an experienced IT leader and CIO at Paragon Films, guiding the company’s technology strategy for over a decade. With a diverse background spanning global experience in the Middle East, coding, startups and enterprise roles, Kenny brings a blend of technical prowess, business acumen and people skills. He believes in mentoring others and maintaining humility when positions change. Kenny is a lifelong learner who turns challenges into growth opportunities. The CIO Journey: Kenny Mullican on Leading Through Change What skills does it take to effectively lead an IT organization through constant change? How can CIOs guide their teams through ups and downs? We explore these questions and more with IT executive Kenny Mullican. Drawing on over two decades of diverse IT experience, Kenny shares perspectives on maintaining humility and confidence as a leader, overcoming adversity, and focusing on continuous growth. Expect a view on where he’s been, the challenges he faced, and advice for aspiring leaders as we cover enduring setbacks, expanding skills, and shifting mindsets.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Kenny Mulliken, CIO at Paragon Films in Oklahoma.
0:16.6	Welcome to the show, Kenny.
0:18.1	Hi, Doug.
0:19.1	How's it going?
0:20.1	I'm doing great. How about you? Doing fine. It's a good Friday. show, Kenny. Hi, Doug. How's it going? I'm doing great. How about you?
0:21.4	Doing fine. It's a good Friday. Yeah, absolutely. So, Oklahoma, this is a, this is a new one for me, my first, my first person to interview and talk to from the Midwest. Where exactly in Oklahoma are you?
0:33.8	Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's kind of the northeast part of the state.
0:40.6	Now, Tulsa is another company.
0:45.5	So you work for Paragon Films, and I'm going to get to that just a second.
0:49.0	But I think I said notice that Paragon is it based in Broken Arrow.
0:50.0	Is that what it said?
0:50.7	Yeah, that's right.
0:52.6	Broken Arrow is a suburb of Tulsa.
0:53.3	Okay.
0:54.0	All right. Now, Total side, I of Tulsa. Okay. All right.
1:00.9	Now, Total Side, I have somebody from where I'm from here, from the upstate New York area.
1:07.3	She was, I think, the CEO of our Chamber of Commerce, and now she's the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce in Broken Arrow.
1:11.6	So there's like a random connection between the two of us here.
1:20.8	It's like we're brothers, right? So in all seriousness, uh, in the, in the, the, you know,
1:26.3	your CIO of Paragon Films, and that's, you've been there for quite a while. Uh, it's, if I was reading, I'm doing the research here on your LinkedIn profile to give me a cheat sheet.
1:30.9	But how long have you been there?
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