Protect your business by managing your security posture with the right partner so that you can effectively work smarter and not harder. Alignment with you in mind means creating greater efficiencies and impacting profitability.  

George Smith, Head of Community & Strategic Partnerships at Augmentt speaks to the importance of supporting the work of MSPs with tools, resources and the partner community. Augmentt is a centralized SaaS security platform designed to deliver scalable managed security services.

Highlights include:

His own leadership journey into tech.

Standardization and Augmentt’s partnership with Microsoft.

Recent release of Augmentt Autopilot, allowing MSPs to set security baseline templates.

‘Security is not a product, it's a discipline’.

Success stories leading to cost savings and increased profitability.

Tools and resources to support and increase Partner success including ebooks and their Augmenttors webinar series.

His passion for the sport of Rugby and the factor of the greater team.

His challenge for any curious about the Augmentt to personally reach out to him on LinkedIn.

To learn more about Augmentt and to take advantage of their Demo and free 14-Day Trial, visit augmentt.com/

Does your organization have a reputation for putting clients first? Is this evident in the way you treat and understand their unique needs?

Adrian Villasenor, Founder and CTO of Avilla Innovations sheds light into how understanding the goals of your clients can allow you to become a trusted advisor and ally in their desire to refine processes, boost organizational efficiency and productivity. Avilla Innovations is a leading software development company, leveraging technology to drive digital data solutions and transformation.

Highlights include:

• What inspired Avilla Innovations.
• Why he chose to change roles to better serve Avilla Innovation and their customers, and why this also allowed him to stay true to himself and to his strengths. 
• Foundation of transparency and empowering team members to innovate and lead.
• Strategic Partnership with Pipedrive.
• His encouragement to embrace and leverage new technologies.
• Words of wisdom from his father that still guides him, 'do things to the best of your ability and with the best intentions.'

Connect with Adrian on LinkedIn. Learn more about Avilla Innovation by visiting avillainnovations.com/ and schedule your free consultation.  

Effective leaders not only advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) but also embody vulnerability—an essential quality that cultivates openness, empathy, community and inclusivity. As a leader within your organization, do you help to foster a culture that is safe for dialogue, welcoming of ideas, acknowledging of diverse journeys, providing sponsorships and supporting growth?

Kerry Robinson, Commercial Distribution Director at Ping Identity shares why it is important for organizations and leaders to promote awareness and drive change by expecting and supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce. You accomplish this by championing all identities. 

Highlights include:

How others have supported her leadership journey and set the stage for Kerry to support others. People want to be seen, empower them to show up.

Value of participating in your organization's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs); much like Women of Ping, Ping RED (Racial, Ethnic and Diversity).

Kerry's belief that, "there's nothing more important than to be authentically you."

Kerry's conviction that, "When your most passionate people get quiet, this is when the leaders should absolutely be concerned."

Connect with Kerry on LinkedIn and to learn more about Ping Identity and their partner community, visit pingidentity.com/

The application window for PitchIT 2024 is still open. The annual PitchIT Accelerator Program is now in its 5th year, and we are thrilled to partner again with Sean Lardo, ConnectWise and the IT Nation community.

Sean Lardo, Head Evangelist and a true voice for the partner joins us once again to talk about IT Nation and the upcoming PitchIT Accelerator Program. PitchIT is a worldwide ‘Shark Tank’ like competition that invites organizations to highlight their innovative solutions, be discovered and to learn from the community. 

26 vendors are chosen to be a part of this amazing 16-week incubator program, led by industry experts, covering sales, marketing, branding, messaging, product security, and more. From that cohort group, 3 will become Finalists and present live at IT Nation Connect. 

Additional highlights include:

PitchIT winning prize of $70,000.

ConnectWise marketplace.

The 3 Finalists alone have generated over $3M in ARR.

To learn more about the Accelerator program and to become a participant:

https://www.connectwise.com/theitnation/pitchit

Tech leaders must develop a mindset and integrate strategies to support the continued demand from their organizations and the market. How can they become more effective and efficient with their time? Who are some of the leaders that you should emulate? What are some of their best practices?

Let’s dive into 10 observations of successful tech leaders. Perhaps some of these will support you and your drive to be excellent. 

Be the Model

Prioritizing self awareness and self development

Organize your schedule

Have growth goals

Practice curiosity

Don’t just close tickets, learn from them

Refine your niche

Leverage strategic partnerships and alliances

Automate and delegate

Celebrate

To learn more about our coaching and training programs, visit appmeetup.com

AppMeetup: Microsoft's 2024 Supplier to Supplier Collaboration Partner.  

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Whether you like it or not, stress and stressful experiences are a part of life. Stress can be compounded and even triggered by various factors, including personal challenges, health concerns, work pressure, or even global events. The key is learning how to manage stress. This ability can significantly impact our overall wellbeing and professional success.

Dat Tran, Leadership coach, Speaker and Founder of Dat Purpose shares his journey and insight into helping leaders and organizations with this area of stress management. Highlights include:

Discovered his purpose and how he helps leaders align with their own purpose.

We can have 'saboteurs', thought patterns that can hold us back from being our best

Defining what positive intelligence is and the importance of training our mind.

Creating a psychological safe place for our people to be at their best.

His Stress Management Framework: Bury. Release & Process.

Importance of leadership to model the framework.

We also dive into strategies for releasing stress, including exercise, breathing and meditation. Understand the language of stress and how to communicate what you are feeling. Don’t bury stress; instead, release and process to ensure continued growth, provide security and nurture an environment for greater success. 

To learn more about Dat, connect with him on LinkedIn and visit datpurpose.com/

We are working on a couple of projects and wanted to give a shoutout to one of our program sponsors. This is a special replay of an episode with Adam Walter, President of Humanize IT. Humanize IT provides a framework for Managed Service Providers to humanize aka simplify the approach to client interaction and communication.  Demonstrate your value and increase opportunities by leveraging this software. 

You will also learn about Adam's experience as a ConnectWise PitchIT Participant and Winner of The 'Most Innovative Solution' award. Give a listen to Adam’s Humanize IT podcast and learn more about Humanize IT by visiting humanizeit.biz/

Leverage content like this program to elevate your game and voice. Thank you Adam and Humanize IT for sponsoring our program. For more information and to become a sponsor, visit AppMeetup.com 

The benefits of the OKR goal-setting process are apparent and core to the success of some of the world’s leading organizations. The Objective and Key Results (OKR) model, when properly implemented, helps to guide the company toward the desired stated mission and vision. 

Scott Levy, Founder and CEO of Result Maps shares how organizations can shape culture, elevate communication and increase engagement. 

Result Maps is a leading Strategy Execution Software, providing CEOs and leaders of organizations visibility into how their strategy is being executed and the ability to help drive accountability. 

Some of the highlights include:

Illustration of music and how in the absence of rhythm, there is nothing but noise and not true harmony.

4 out of 5 don’t understand the direction given by leadership.

Insight into how to get the best from your teams. 

Organizational culture of clear vision and being able to learn and fail quickly.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn and visit Resultmaps.com to learn more about how you can increase the effectiveness of your organization. Scott is also providing a Free-Trial as well as insight into their Vision Course www.resultmaps.com/how-to-build-a-vision-that-sticks

What About the Cloud? Add Value and Learn

What should you know about the Cloud and how can aligning with the right partnerships lead to greater success?

Joseph Landes, CRO & CoFounder of Nerdio shares his leadership journey and what he has learned about building a leading and successful organization. Nerdio is a leading software solution provider that empowers MSPs and Technology firms to best deploy, manage, and cost-optimize native Microsoft Cloud technologies.

Some of the key highlights include:

A core belief of ‘Educate First, Sell Second’ leading to their 80/20 and Training Camps.

Find great people, nurture them and then ‘let them rip’; let them lead.

Nerdiocon 2024 and why a destination conference.

Joseph also shares steps that he has taken to help make Nerdio more successful. They include learning from other influential leaders, time management (70% with partners and customers), depth of partnerships with key distributors, and the importance of healthy working relationships such as the one he has with his Co-Founder Vadim Vladimirskiy.

To learn more about Joseph, connect with him on LinkedIn and visit getnerdio.com

Organizations understand that engaged employees are crucial to success. Engaged not only with existing clients, but also within the community. How do you engage your circles of influence and how can you help your teams achieve higher levels of engagement? 

Matthew Donald Lucas, Solutions Architect with CBE IT Solutions shares his leadership journey and dives into why engagement is key for achieving favorable outcomes. How you engage and communicate matters. 

Some of the highlights include:

Importance of keeping clients informed and educated through webinars, workshops, QBRs and using strategically designed roadmaps.

Developing a culture of continuous learning and hand on training.

Their apprenticeship program, celebrating their growth and success,

Trends and what clients are looking for.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn and visit cbeits.com/