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Flexibility & core work hours
“We have to support healthy families.”
Self-confidence — the 100 percent vs 60 percent stat
“You’ll be held back by others, don’t hold yourself back.”
“It’s okay to ask for forgiveness and not permission.”
“Do something scary & a little bit outside your reach.”
Women in STEM
Work-life balance
“Everything I learned as a manager I learned by being a parent first.”
Using technology to stay connected
“We all make choices in our lives.”
Learning when to embrace opportunity & when to let go
Setting the tone — “It’s okay not to be working at night, working around the clock.”
Attributes of successful leaders
“We’ve become mentors because we’ve had great mentors.”
Byrne’s football analogy
Encouraging timid women to “speak up”
Benefits of professional networks — “How do we reach out and leverage the people that can help us?”
Guarding against being “too busy”
About our CIO panelists: Annecharico, Byrne, Loveless & Schade
JHM study on women in the C-suite
“The barriers are really relatively complex.”
Role of culture in enabling advancement
Mentors & the confidence boost
Challenging women to “look over the edge and do something scary.”
Balancing Epic’s expectations with internal challenges
Best practices in CIO transitioning
Don’t forget to mentor!
“Develop a legacy of leadership”
The most important question: “When you got the job, did you jump up and down?”
Best practices in CIO onboarding
Why flexibility and customization have become dirty words
The importance of total leadership support
The Epic Way
Tapping Accenture and Cumberland for consulting help
Identifying nurses with IT potential
Why nurses can make good CIOs
The Epic install — the planning stage
No upfront application customization — “We’re going as close to model as we can”
Enterprise rollouts at the departmental level — some tough conversations
