"December is the cruelest month," with apologies to the poet T.S. Eliot, because managing through end-of-year selling, budgeting, and just plain surviving is hard. In episode 268 of CXOTalk, host Michael Krigsman speaks with two experts who can help you ease the transition to 2018.

Minette Norman runs Engineering Practice at Autodesk, where she manages the work and collaboration of 3,500 engineers, a position traditionally held by men. Tamara McCleary is one of the most well-known keynote speakers on topics related to digital transformation in the world.