35. Make Your Team Shine (with Marcelo De Santis)

35. Make Your Team Shine (with Marcelo De Santis)

Marcelo is a digital leader, entrepreneur and angel investor with 20+ years of global experience in creating growth with new business models, innovative technology and disruptive go-to-market approaches. He is currently Chief Digital Officer at ThoughtWorks and works with C-suite executives to invent, launch, and scale digital business models that leverage their company’s core capabilities and create new revenue streams. Previously he held the positions of Chief Digital and Information Officer at Kraft Foods, Mondelez and Pirelli.

Marcelo is co-founder of Angeles Investors, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of UNICEF and Hispanic IT Executive Council. He has been featured by HITEC as one of the top 100 most influential and notable Hispanic Professionals in the technology, in 2019, 2020 and 2022. In 2019 he was nominated by Crain’s as one of Top 50 CEOs, entrepreneurs and technologists.

In this episode:

• Marcelo introduces himself and tells the audience about his career.
• He shares his biggest challenges when becoming a leader of people versus being an individual contributor driving change for himself.
• He shares his experience on what it felt like to be highlighted as a great leader of people by his former CIO.
• He shares his thoughts about leaders who may feel threatened by making their team shine more than themselves.
• We talked about some of the advice that he shared when I interviewed him for The Visibility Factor.
• He talks about his takeaways from living in different places and what it taught him.
• He discusses the differences in transition in his current leadership role at a consulting company as compared to many of the companies he has worked for.
• He gives his top three pieces of advice on what a new leader should think about doing to have success.

Marcelo's book recommendation is:

• Leadership is an Art

Here are links to connect and learn more about Marcelo: 

• Marcelo De Santis on LinkedIn (ln/marcelodesantis)

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