July 2, 2025

Kathryn Guarini (ex-IBM CIO) on Org Design, AI Leadership, and Enterprise Transformation

Kathryn Guarini spent over two decades at IBM leading transformations across product, engineering, and IT, eventually becoming CIO.

In this episode, we dive into:

The real bottlenecks in digital transformation

What AI readiness looks like in the enterprise

Building high-trust orgs that can handle change

Operating models that scale across 300,000+ employees

Her personal leadership lessons from the boardroom to the trenches

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