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- FTEMS Mentoring
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No academic program or training seminar can prepare you for the wide ranging challenges of IT management. The key to becoming an outstanding IT Manager has always been finding a mentor who has mastered the business, technical and leadership skills you need to develop.
Mentor Jerry Hodge, CIO, Hamilton Beach/Proctor Silex (far right) with student "mentees" Tiwan Nicholson, Class of 2010 (far left); Nancy Tickle, 2008 and Dave Witt, 2009.
Every executive who takes on additional responsibilities should be mentored.In addition to the 360° profile and group coaching, students in this program engage in a one-on-one mentoring relationship with a local IT executive, typically a CIO, with whom they meet monthly to discuss their leadership objectives and related course work. Students have an opportunity to go beyond the requirements of the program and build deep, lasting relationships with their mentors.
The failure rate for newly appointed leaders is alarmingly high. According to a Harvard Business Review study, two out of every five new executives fail in the first 18 months. Some of the reasons for this include inability to handle internal politics; uncertainty about company expectations, and failure to build appropriate networks.
Our CIO mentors have mastered the business, technical, and leadership skills necessary to be an outstanding IT Leader. They have agreed to share their time and experiences with our students to help them master these skills as well.
Jack Welch said, "Being a leader changes everything."
With the unique combination of coursework, guest lectures, networking, coaching, and mentoring included in VCU's Executive MS -- IS program, you can be the IT Leader of the Future!
2010 Mentors
- Terry Bolt, VCU Health System
- Dave Klein, b2bSolutions
- Dave Egbert, Markel Corporation
- Richard Smith, CarMax
- Ed Gooding, Merge Computer Group
- Rick Mears, Owens&Minor
- Karen Lankford, Southern States Cooperative
- Deborah Cassidy, Mondial
- Mike Jones, Core Consulting
- George Boatright, Media General
- Mike Holdren, Coventry/First Health Services
- Cheri Spence, International Mission Board
- J. P. Reynolds, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland
- Chip Smith, The Reciprocal Group
- Connie Frudden, FRB Richmond
- Jerry Hodge, Hamilton Beach
- Kevin Whitehouse, Roomstore
- David Nelms, First Market Bank
- Pat Caine, Virginia Farm Bureau
- Pete Guiffirida, Performance Food Group
- Chellam Manickham, Ukrops
- Donald Jones, Luck Stone
- Scott McKay, Genworth
- Bill Dickinson, Virginia State Bar
- Greg Samuels, Interbake Foods, LLC
- Barbara Comfort, J. Sargeant Reynolds
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