Root Access

ForTech Consulting

Welcome to Root Access, a podcast about leadership in IT. Nobody is born a leader. This podcast is about how to become one.

Episódios

  1. 28 de jul.

    Opera Singer to Field CTO at HashiCorp | Anna McDougall

    Anna McDougall's path into tech breaks every rule about how a career is supposed to look, and that's exactly the point. This episode looks at one of the most overlooked and understated skills you can inject into your career: Poaching. Taking at least one skill from every role, or every career, and carrying it into the next. We also get into: Why she thinks a CV is one of the least useful things you can know about a personHer take on AI bots running first-round interviews at companiesThe gender pay gap in tech hiring and the concrete way she widened her candidate poolsThe McDougall method for technical interviews in the age of AIWhy career changers have an edge, but why Germany makes it so hard for themThe book she is writing on the skills engineers actually need in the AI eraThe top three skills that carried her from junior engineer to Field CTOA conversation about hiring, careers, and why the most valuable people are the ones who lift everyone else up. Guest: @AnnaMcDougall - Field CTO at HashiCorpHost: Stef Rieder #TechCareers #WomenInTech #HashiCorp #ForTechConsulting

  2. 23 de jun.

    Vom Kampfjet-Cockpit in die Geschäftsführung: Dr. Falko Hagebölling über Führung in der IT | IVU

    ROOT ACCESS - Episode 04 Dr. Falko Hagebölling wollte Kampfpilot werden. Sein Körper machte nicht mit. Heute führt er die Produktentwicklung bei IVU Traffic Technologies, der Software hinter dem öffentlichen Nahverkehr. In dieser Folge spricht er über das Ende seines größten Traums, über die Methode gegen Nervosität, die ihm seine Mutter beibrachte, und darüber, warum technisch brillante Menschen oft als Führungskraft scheitern. Es geht um Klarheit vor Wahrheit, um die Balance aus Kopf und Bauchgefühl, und warum die richtigen Menschen am Ende mehr zählen als jeder Prozess. Ein ehrliches Gespräch über Scheitern, Reinvention und das Handwerk Führung. Root Access wird ermöglicht von ForTech Consulting. ⏱ Kapitel: 00:00 Intro und Begrüßung 01:20 Zwei Selbstbeschreibungen: der Mensch und der Profi 04:00 Die Methode gegen Nervosität: Dankbarkeit statt Flucht 09:20 Was macht IVU Traffic Technologies? 13:15 2020 bei IVU: kritische Infrastruktur und Produktentwicklung 23:00 Der Kindheitstraum: Kampfpilot werden 25:40 Arizona, Motion Sickness und das Ende des Traums 29:40 Die Entscheidung: zurück nach Deutschland, rein in die IT 34:00 Kernlektion: Träume platzen, neue Wege öffnen sich 37:00 Drei Welten: CGI, Miles & More, IVU 40:00 Klarheit vor Wahrheit: das prägendste Feedback 42:00 Geschwindigkeit gegen Tiefe: wie viel Nachdenken ist zu viel? 46:00 Warum brillante Techniker als Führungskraft scheitern 49:20 Drei Dimensionen bei der Auswahl von Führungskräften 51:00 Führung in drei Worten 52:15 Meinungswandel: Menschen schlagen Prozesse 55:15 Sich selbst führen: die Drucker Lektion 56:40 Kahneman, Biases und der Energiesparmodus im Kopf 58:25 Wie man kluge Köpfe hält und fordert 1:00:15 Die Lieblingsfrage im Vorstellungsgespräch 1:02:45 Das Vermächtnis: woran man sich erinnern soll 1:03:25 Outro

  3. 21 de mai.

    BUILD THE COMPANY YOU COULDN'T FIND - Stefanie Biberger - CEO of grandega GmbH

    Episode 3 | Stefanie Biberger, CEO at grandega GmbH What if you studied the best companies in the world before building your own? That's exactly what Stefanie Biberger did. In Episode 3 of Root Access, the grandega CEO talks about traveling the world with her co-founder to understand New Work from the inside, starting her career managing Aldi stores with teams twice her age, and cherry-picking the lessons that shaped a company built on her own terms. A conversation about resilience, leadership, and building culture by design.

  4. 5 de mai.

    Die Psychologie des Erfolgs - Dr. Alexandra Krone - GAMOMAT Development GmbH

    Was passiert, wenn eine promovierte Psychologin aufhört, Menschen einzeln zu analysieren, und stattdessen beginnt, ganze Organisationen aufzubauen?Wie stellt sie ihr Team zusammen? Was sucht sie in einem Menschen unter der Oberfläche, das alle anderen vielleicht übersehen?In dieser Folge von Root Access spricht Stef Rieder mit Dr. Alexandra Krone, Geschäftsführerin der GAMOMAT Development GmbH, darüber, was Psychologie wirklich über Führung, Kultur und die Menschen hinter High-Performance-Teams verrät.Zur Gästin:Dr. Alexandra Krone ist Geschäftsführerin der GAMOMAT Development GmbH, promoviert in Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie an der Universität Osnabrück.Root Access ist ein Podcast über Führung in der Technologiebranche, moderiert von Stef Rieder. Produziert durch ForTech Consulting. Cloud, AI, SAP und Executive Search.#RootAccess #TechFührung #OrganisationspsychologieEN:What happens when a PhD psychologist stops studying people one by one and starts building entire organizations instead? How does she pick her pack? What does she look for in a person beneath the surface that everyone else might miss?In this episode of Root Access, Stef Rieder speaks with Dr. Alexandra Krone, Managing Director at GAMOMAT Development GmbH, about what psychology really reveals about leadership, culture, and the people behind high-performing teams.About the guest:Dr. Alexandra Krone is Managing Director at GAMOMAT Development GmbH, with a doctorate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Osnabrück.Root Access is a podcast about leadership in technology, hosted by Stef Rieder. Produced by ForTech Consulting. Cloud, AI, SAP, and Executive Search.#RootAccess #TechLeadership #OrganizationalPsychology

  5. 9 de mar.

    Oracle's Tobias Deml - Head of Cloud - Earn Your Career, Don't Request It.

    In the first episode of Root Access, Stef Rieder speaks with Tobias Deml, Head of Cloud at Oracle, about leadership, transformation, and what it takes to drive change inside one of the world’s largest technology companies. Tobias shares lessons from his career in enterprise technology and explains the principle that has shaped much of his leadership philosophy: “Don’t ask for it. Earn it.” Together they discuss how large organizations evolve, why transformation at scale is never just about technology, and how people grow into leadership over time. Root Access is a podcast about leadership in technology, created and hosted by Stef Rieder and produced in partnership with ForTech Consulting, an award-winning tech recruitment firm specializing in Cloud, AI, SAP, and Executive Search.

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Sobre

Welcome to Root Access, a podcast about leadership in IT. Nobody is born a leader. This podcast is about how to become one.

Informações

  • Criado por
    ForTech Consulting
  • Anos de atividade
    2026
  • Episódios
    5
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © ForTech Consulting
  • Site do podcast
    Root Access