"Every day is an opportunity. And I'm prepared to pivot whatever it is I'm doing to fit whatever seems the most interesting or that I'm most passionate about," says Chris Campbell, CIO at DeVry University. In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, Chris shares his expertise on building effective teams, transformation initiatives, and tiny homes.

Jeri Koester, CIO at Marshfield Clinic Health System and board member at TBM Council, drives a Harley Davidson and knows how to take charge. Jeri’s background working in IT startups led to the manufacturing industry, where she learned about workflow and automation. Jeri then moved to healthcare, leading IT teams for the past decade. She says she loves the mission of Marshfield.

In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, co-hosts Les Ottolenghi and Mark Bavisotto talk with Jeri about project management, leading teams, and creating digital experiences.

In the first part of Net Effects Podcast, co-host Mark Bavisotto’s conversation with Johnny Rockets and Friendly’s Restaurant CIO & CITO Pete Gibson covered everything from leading organizations to quality assurance and software architecture. In this follow-up episode, Mark and Pete talk about the restaurant industry and how the process has changed to respond to a changing marketplace.

Executive Director of UNLV's Black Fire Innovation Hub, Dr. Robert Rippee, is also a practitioner of zen and the. In this follow-up episode, Net Effects Podcast co-hosts Les Ottolenghi and Mark Bavisotto visit with him about personal transformation and our experience in the now.

Meditative zen questions like "What am I?" "Where am I" and "What is now?" help engage with the present moment. This focus can be applied to everything from meditation to considering customer experience to innovation and transformation.

Pete Gibson, CIO & CITO of Johnny Rocket's and Friendly's Restaurant, recalls the lessons learned from his time in the military and working on the team that developed the technology for Tomahawk cruise missiles. He says these lessons impacted his whole career, from developing high-reliability systems and software quality assurance to software architecture and project management to running a technology organization.

In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, co-host Mark Bavisotto interviews Pete about his time in the military, leading innovation teams, and leaning into leadership.

Dr. Robert Rippee's office mate is a machine learning robot named "Pepper." Her dutiful listening is part of his research and teachings at UNLV about human behavior and the future of interactive technology. Dr. Rippee is the Executive Director for UNLV Black Fire Innovation Hub — his doctorate and dissertation bring together compelling fields of statistics, innovation, and consumer behavior.

In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, co-hosts Les Ottolenghi and Mark Bavisotto visit with Dr. Rippee about disruptive innovation, our changing world, and never settling for the status quo.

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less,” is the quote that Teena Piccione, Telco, Media & Entertainment, and Gaming Industries at Google Cloud, had printed on her team’s badges for an event.

Teena has always excelled at rising to a challenge and thinking outside the box. At 18, she struck out on her own, working her way through high school and college. She supported herself by working at UPS at 3 am every morning. Teena also concurrently excelled in music and technology — both taught her the importance of knowing your work inside and out. In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, co-host Mark Bavisotto chats with Teena about continual learning, thinking outside the box, and standing out as a female leader.

Dr. Geoff Parker says the punchline when it comes to choosing a career path is that "you don't have to make up your mind." Pursuing computer science during his undergrad years and then spending time in semiconductor engineering, he says that a lot of what is interesting in the economy today is at the intersection of technology, business, economics.

This intersection makes Dr. Parker one of the foremost experts in his field of platform technology; he is the co-author of Platform Revolution and a professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Dartmouth College.

In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, co-hosts Les Ottolenghi and Mark Bavisotto visit with Dr. Parker about how platforms are changing the global economy and the future of business.

Mike Fulton is a proud Buckeye. Ohio State is “near and dear to his heart,” and he is an alumnus and teacher at the institution. During his time teaching at OSU, Mike has developed a groundbreaking digital transformation curriculum based on years of enterprise IT experience. Mike also leverages his digital transformation expertise to lead cloud services company, Expedient, as the Head of Innovation and Product Strategy.

Mike began his career at P&G, which he calls a “great training ground” for anyone who wants to understand leadership — working every job in the IT department and eventually landing in concurrent Chief Cloud Architect and Shared Services roles.

Dr. Marta Meana is a professor of psychology at UNLV. She has served as Acting President and Dean of the Honors College at the academic institution. But she never aspired to these leadership positions. Instead, she aspired to excellence in her field and her scholarly endeavors. In this episode of Net Effects Podcast, Dr. Meana visits with co-hosts Mark Bavisotto and Les Ottolenghi about starting her first agency as a copywriter to pivoting to work in clinical psychology, and how opportunities find you when you give your work and passion 150%.