Coaching is a tool with many benefits in the world of rapidly accelerating AI and technology capabilities.
- Emerging technology brings new solutions and requires learning agility. As IT professionals balance managing their daily responsibilities and keeping up with changes and trends, AI & Tech guidance is more important than ever.
- New roles, career paths, skills and expectations are emerging at a greater pace than ever before due to AI and related advancements. Getting support and experienced advice can temper the challenges of navigating a moving target in terms of responsibilities and technology career paths.
- No-code, natural language and voice-interface solutions will enable advancements, but will allow professionals who are non-technical to play the role of programmers and architects, resulting in a need for their accelerated education and awareness of risks and benefits in the world of AI & Tech.
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- Executives and leaders are occupied with operations and customers, as they should be, and appreciate helpful resources and guidance, perspective and information delivered to them about AI & IT when and how they need it.
AI & Tech Advisory Services for Leaders (Corporate)
Often, busy C-suite leaders have a full to do list with their functional and executive responsibilities. Keeping up with AI and Tech trends may not always be top of mind, though technology is relevant to every department and line of business. Executive Advisory Services in AI / Tech topics allows leaders to get summarized answers, a cut-to-the-chase approach, explanations that make sense, and an avenue to become more informed about their AI and Tech options.
IT Team Career Development Services (Corporate)
Clients use our services to provide corporate career development Advisory Services to their IT professionals. Benefits include: improvement in retention, skills-building, job satisfaction, promotion preparation and career pathing. Providing this approach to develop technical acumen and leadership skills for your current IT staff adds company-wide value.
Career Advancement & Navigation Coaching (Individuals)
Coaching gives you support, techniques and methods to navigate current situations at work, as well as networking and career navigation insights. Offering a review of skills from gravitas, confidence, work/life balance, prioritization, executive communication and more, including resume building, social media presence and profile. Career navigation and advancement coaching is intended to provide perspective, guidance and an in-your-corner sounding board.
Meet Kelly
Orange River Group’s Founder
Kelly enjoys helping others, especially in driving significant business value from new Tech solutions. She is humbled by the opportunities of her quarter-century career and appreciates sharing her experiences with others for their benefit.
Holding CIO, CTO, CISO and other executive roles, she has led IT optimization and technology-driven business transformation at companies including General Motors, Tenneco, Ally Financial, Pulte Group and Arthur Andersen.
As Founder and CEO of Orange River Group, Kelly offers advisory services on AI and technology topics for non-technical leaders, IT professional development services and individual career navigation coaching.
EXPERIENCE PROFILE
Founder and CEO of Orange River Group, Kelly Genzlinger has 25 years in Information Technology, spanning several industries across companies from mature startup to Fortune 5 in scale, holding C-level and executive leadership roles.
Experience highlights and key professional insights:
- Leadership: CIO, CTO, CISO, VP IT Transformation, CIO Chief of Staff, VP IT Corporate Systems, Governance, PMO and Head of Apps, Delivery, Data
- Financials: $235M budget-build, $25M budget ownership, $100M program management
- People Served: 90+ person direct-report team, CIO Chief of Staff for 1200-person IT department; 100-person WIT ERG
- Industries: Financial Services, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Residential Construction
- Size and scale: Mature startup to <$1B to Fortune 5-500
- Experience highlights: Leadership and delivery across data and advanced analytics, cyber security and risk management, corporate technology regulatory compliance, software system solutions and applications selection, implementation and sustain, IT financial management and strategic work, IT governance and strategy.
- Data and advanced analytics. Kelly has lead departments, teams, planning and initiatives across the following: business intelligence, reporting, data visualization, data governance, data strategy, advanced and predictive analytics, data warehousing and data taxonomies.
- Cyber security, risk management, and compliance. She has ensured compliance with industry and multi-national governmental regulatory requirements for cyber security, financial services and national eInvoicing laws.
- IT governance, strategy, communication. Kelly has built and run PMOs, improved IT governance methods and routines, has been responsible for executive leadership and Board reporting relative to IT performance. She has established corporate IT strategy and objectives for entire IT departments aligned to overall company strategy and goals.
- Corporate functions IT partner. She has served as leader on behalf of departmental leaders (e.g., CFO, CHRO, GC) and has supported software selection, contract negotiation, agile transformation, vendor management and large implementations (e.g., Salesforce, Oracle, SAP Concur, Dell Boomi)
- Additional experience: Kelly has also fostered and supported architecture, quality assurance, business analysis / user experience, organizational change management, M&A due diligence and divestiture planning and budget creation and emerging technologies/ innovation.
- Approach: Committed to servant leadership, professional development, student/learner opportunities, women in tech, employee engagement and mentorship, Kelly has successfully instituted a perpetual-internship program partnering with several universities, co-founded a Women in Tech ERG, provided mentorship, career path navigation and other support to her teams and network.
- Service: Kelly has recently been appointed to the University of Tennessee College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies Board of Visitors, a dynamic new college focused on Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, and Data Science.
- Education and training:
- Master of Science in Program and Project Management from the University of Michigan, Dearborn, College of Computer Science and Engineering.
- Bachelor of Business Administration concentration in Computer Information Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ross School of Business.
- Kelly has benefited from continued training, certification and technology communities, as a lifelong learner including:
- World50 Group
- Deloitte University
- MIT / Institute for Chief Data Officers
- ITIL 4 Certification
- ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Certified Career Coach (Transformation Academy)
- Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT)
- Society for Information Management (SIM)
- T200 professional women in tech organization