Our special Financial Week coverage continues with Nationwide CTO Jim Fowler. We’re bringing this episode back from 2020 because it’s chocked full of powerful insights and wisdom that are still true today. Jim helps us understand the true meaning of “digital transformation” and just as importantly, understand the necessity of transforming company culture to be more unified and thereby impactful. Enjoy! 

Tune in to learn:

• Why taking the jobs that no one else wants will propel your career. (01:02) 
• The scope of work for the CTO at Nationwide (06:05) 
• Why Digital Transformation is the most overused and most misunderstood term in the industry. (09:28) 
• How Nationwide thinks about dividing the work between AI and their employees. (25:10) 
• How we’re going to handle the masses of data now being collected (37:30) 
• What is YearUp and how is it helping? (40:42) 

Mentions:

• Career Advice for My Younger Selt - By Jim Fowler
• ​​From West Point to the C-Suite of Johnson & Johnson With CISO Marene Allison
• YearUp NonProfit 
• Open Tech Jobs at Nationwide

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