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These are the convos you wish you could have with your own C-suite. Nerdy, candid, unexpected: Top execs talk leadership + the future of business, sharing predictions, takes, and tips.
Hear what’s next for business — and your career.
In this conversation series, the guests are your personal leading indicators. AI’s changing everything fast, so CIO.com Hall-of-Famer Patrick Thompson and transformation legend Kerry Brown are getting to know a hand-picked set of tech-savvy senior execs, both as leaders and as human beings — and gathering intel on what the future holds for enterprises (and viewers like you) along the way.
Episode 1: Marina Bellini,
President, Global Services and Digital Technologies, Mars
In another life, Marina Bellini says she would have happily been a schoolteacher or an actress. Today, her job is something else entirely: overseeing digital technology for Mars, Inc., one of the largest pet care and CPG companies in the world.
In the premiere episode of Leading Indicators, Celonis’ Kerry Brown digs into what makes this Fortune 500 CIO tick. They discuss:
- Marina’s atypical journey to CIO — a position she’s held across brands like PepsiCo and AB InBev — and how indirect paths make versatile leaders
- The one question every enterprise should ask before any AI project
- Indispensable rules for leadership, like why the “smartest person in the room” doesn’t exist
- The most underrated skill in IT leaders
- Which tech trends are overhyped, underhyped, and just right
Watch now!
Marina Bellini
President of Global Services and Digital Technologies, Mars
"'I need to do AI. I need to modernize.' Why? Everybody's being inundated with tech solutions that can magically transform your life. But I don't need all of that. In some cases, the solution will be in a process, in data, in people. And in some cases, it'll be in technology."
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