"Leadership Spotlight" includes interviews with Chapter Presidents, SIM Board members, Management Council members and other SIM leaders.  "Leadership Spotlight" will not only highlight SIM’s leadership and chapters,  but it will offer insight from our leaders on topics, treads and issues facing the Society, our chapters and the IT industry.

 

 An archive of interviews will be found HERE.

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March 2013
Name: Keri Pearlson
SIM Role: SIM Austin President

 

The Austin chapter of SIM turned 1-year old two months ago, in January this year.  We began in fall of 2011 with a series of get togethers at a local restaurant with the help and guidance of leaders from the Houston and Dallas chapters, and by January 2012 we became a full-fledged chapter of our own.  Like other SIM chapters, we meet monthly and have had a wide array of speakers, meetings and events.   We have an incredibly talented and dedicated executive team which makes my role fun and energizing.  In keeping with the local Austin culture, our chapter includes senior IT leaders, academics, CTOs from local high-tech companies and a handful of leaders from vendor companies who support our goals. Like our city, our chapter is vibrant and growing and the credit goes to our great members and our energetic leaders. As the founding President, my goals are to create a strong foundation for our chapter, and to build a compelling road map for where we want to go.  Our first year was a resounding success.  We completed our incorporation process, we had interesting, engaging programming and we grew our membership from 0 to about 45 members.  Our volunteers on our Board learned how to work together to create a high-performing team.  For our second year, we spent the first two months creating a strategic plan and we will work on implementing that plan over the next few years.  Our strategic plan 2 defining (strategic) priorities and one support priority, and each priority has specific initiatives we plan to do over the next few years.  Now it’s time to socialize and operationalize the plan. 

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An archive of interviews will be found HERE.