Future of Business: SAIC’s Toni Townes-Whitley on Leading Strategic Transformation
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Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Alison Beard. For the next few Thursdays, we're bringing you a series of interviews with some of the world's leading tech CEOs and founders to hear their perspectives on artificial intelligence and other top of mind issues. Today, we'll listen to a conversation that Tony Towns Whitley, CEO of SAIC, had with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius. During our recent virtual future of business conference. SAIC is a company with more than$7 billion in annual revenue.
and 24,000 employees. It provides engineering, digital, AI, and mission support to defense, space, intelligence, and civilian customers. Tony took the helm about a year ago, after stints as a senior executive at Microsoft, CGI Federal and UNICES. She also serves on five boards, both corporate and nonprofit, and is a former US Peace Corps volunteer, so she has some useful insight on how organizations of all types can work together on our biggest challenges.
In answering questions from Adi in the audience, she shares her thoughts on leading effective strategic transformation, upskilling employees, and guarding against AI bias. Here's that discussion. So let's dive in. Um Talk about how as an incoming leader
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