Lead with IT

Kathryn Guarini

Lead with IT is a podcast about how technology shapes strategy, accelerates growth, and creates competitive advantage in every industry, at every scale. Hosted by Kathryn Guarini — technology executive, board director, educator, and PhD scientist — each episode features real conversations with leaders and innovators exploring what it means to put technology at the center of how organizations think, decide, and grow. Topics span the full journey: elevating technology into strategy, building trust by design, and making tech fluency a leadership imperative. The stories are specific, the takeaways are practical, and the perspective is clear: organizations that lead with IT set the pace. Those that don’t, fall behind.   Don’t just use IT. Lead with IT.

  1. قبل ٢١ ساعة

    AI Can Amplify, Unlock, And Reimagine Work | #3

    What if AI is not just a tool to make work faster, but a force that can change what work becomes? In this episode of Lead With IT, Kathryn Guarini explores the current state of artificial intelligence, the opportunities it creates, and the real challenges leaders need to take seriously. Kathryn brings multiple perspectives to the conversation: builder of AI tools, former IBM Global CIO, board director, educator, everyday AI user, and parent. She shares how her experience ranges from building AI capabilities earlier in her career to deploying AI at IBM scale for hundreds of thousands of employees across the world. The episode breaks down the evolution of AI from broad artificial intelligence to machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and agent AI. Kathryn explains how AI has moved from rule-following systems to models that can learn from observation and even learn by doing. She also addresses the concerns that come with this moment, including skepticism, ethics, privacy, intellectual property, job impact, bias, explainability, cybersecurity, energy usage, and the role of AI in education. While those concerns are real, Kathryn also points out that many of these problems are being actively addressed as quickly as they surface. The heart of the episode is Kathryn’s framework for how businesses can think about AI: amplify, unlock, and reimagine. AI can amplify human work by making existing tasks faster and more consistent. It can unlock possibilities humans could not reach on their own. And it can reimagine entire categories of work by changing what the work itself looks like. In this episode: ● Why AI creates both opportunity and concern ● Kathryn’s experience building and deploying AI ● How IBM used AI at global scale ● The difference between AI, machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and agent AI ● Why AI systems learning by doing changes the conversation ● The technical, ethical, and business challenges leaders need to watch ● Why AI concerns are being addressed in real time ● How AI can reimagine the future of work If you are a leader, builder, educator, board member, or business owner trying to understand where AI fits, this episode gives you a clear framework for thinking about the technology, its risks, and its potential. Connect with Kathryn Guarini and tune into more conversations on Lead With IT.

  2. ١٣ أغسطس

    Welcome to Lead with IT | #1

    What if the biggest strategic advantage in your business is not just your product, your market, or your people, but how early technology shapes your decisions? In this first solo episode of Lead With IT, Kathryn Guarini introduces the philosophy behind the podcast and the leadership shift she believes every organization needs to make: technology can no longer be treated as a support function. It must be part of strategy from the beginning. Kathryn shares her background as a PhD scientist, technology executive, board director, and educator, with experience spanning research, product management, IT leadership, the C-suite, and the boardroom. Through that lens, she explains why every company today is, in some way, a technology company. From banking and retail to pharmaceuticals and small businesses, technology now shapes how companies find customers, serve needs, build products, run operations, and compete in the market. As AI, cloud systems, security tools, data, and automation become more embedded in every business, leaders have a choice: lead with IT or fall behind. Kathryn also shares examples from her work at IBM, including the massive IT separation behind the Kyndryl spin-off, and her board work with Regeneron, where technology plays a critical role in accelerating drug discovery, clinical trials, FDA approval, and patient impact. This episode is a call for leaders to stop thinking of IT as an order taker or back-office function and start using technology to define what the business can become. In this episode: ● Why every company is now a technology company ● What it means to lead with IT ● Why technology must shape strategy from the beginning ● How AI and digital systems are changing every industry ● Why IT cannot be treated as a back-office support function ● What Kathryn learned from leading technology at IBM ● How technology can create competitive advantage in biopharma ● Why future leaders need technology fluency If you are a CEO, board member, executive, founder, or emerging leader trying to understand how technology shapes growth, speed, trust, and competitive advantage, this episode will help you see why leading with IT is no longer optional. Connect with Kathryn Guarini and tune into more conversations on Lead With IT.

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Lead with IT is a podcast about how technology shapes strategy, accelerates growth, and creates competitive advantage in every industry, at every scale. Hosted by Kathryn Guarini — technology executive, board director, educator, and PhD scientist — each episode features real conversations with leaders and innovators exploring what it means to put technology at the center of how organizations think, decide, and grow. Topics span the full journey: elevating technology into strategy, building trust by design, and making tech fluency a leadership imperative. The stories are specific, the takeaways are practical, and the perspective is clear: organizations that lead with IT set the pace. Those that don’t, fall behind.   Don’t just use IT. Lead with IT.

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    Kathryn Guarini
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    © 2026 Kathryn Guarini
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    Lead with IT