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Should You Become a Fractional Tech Leader?
Over the last few years, organizations have increasingly turned to part-time, specialized tech leaders to provide expertise, strategic decisions and speedy results without the full-time commitment and cost of a traditional hire. In fact, according to The Times, the number of LinkedIn profiles mentioning “fractional executive” exploded from approximately 2,000 in 2022 to more than 110,000 by 2024, an indicator of the growing global demand and supply. To be clear, fractional work isn’t a side hustle or part-time individual contributor role. Fractional leaders take ownership of outcomes and often work with multiple organizations simultaneously to drive major initiatives. They are expected to hold the culture and deliver a massive impact within a few months while usually working remotely just two to three hours a day, explained Ashish Gupta, CEO and founder of ScaleUpExec, a fractional COO firm. Given the trends (and the disproportionate number of managerial layoffs in the tech industry) y

How to Utilize AI to Evaluate and Develop Effective Leaders
AI is fundamentally reshaping the business and tech landscape, requiring leaders to embrace new skills and approaches to effectively navigate this new era. For instance, according to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2025, senior leaders who are effective at building trust are 2.8 times less likely to encounter resistance to AI adoption. Yet at a time when trust is critical, data shows that only 29 percent of employees trust their managers and only 32 percent trust their senior leaders. This crisis of trust is particularly exacerbated during periods of significant change explained Dr. Adam Taylor, senior director of Assessment Content Design and Development at Development Dimensions International (DDI). Fortunately, testing services have developed assessments that leverage artificial intelligence to help companies select and develop leaders who can build trust and leverage other relevant skills. Here’s how to integrate AI-powered assessments with traditional assessments to evaluate lead

vCISO Positions Thriving During a Time of Greater Compliance, AI Use
With threat actors continually taking advantage of vulnerabilities at a record pace, small businesses find themselves in the same precarious positions as larger enterprises. A Mastercard survey found that 46 percent of small and mid-sized firms experienced a security incident within their current operations. The same Mastercard survey, which gathered responses from 5,000 small and midsized firms, also found that only 23 percent of respondents are “very” satisfied with their cybersecurity plan, while 23 percent said they are “very” confident in their ability to identify security threats. Studies like the Mastercard report show that small businesses require better cybersecurity help but often lack the resources that larger enterprises can dedicate to defenses and security staff. It’s one reason why many small and midsized firms have turned to virtual CISOs (vCISOs) as an alternative to hiring full-time cybersecurity executives. A vCISO can work for a consulting firm or function as an ind

'Tech Connects' Podcast: Is Your Design Career AI-Ready?
Kicking off a new season of Tech Connects, our new host Paul Farnsworth sits down with Amy Thibodeau, Chief Design Officer at Gusto, a platform that helps over 400,000 small businesses manage payroll, benefits, and HR functions. Amy leads product design, user research, content design, and brand design teams, giving her a comprehensive view of how AI is reshaping creative work across organizations. We explore how AI is transforming design and creative roles—not by replacing human designers, but by accelerating workflows and blurring traditional job boundaries. Amy explains how AI serves as a "sidekick" that handles time-consuming tasks like research transcription and theme analysis, while enabling designers to focus on higher-value creative work. She discusses the emergence of "design engineers" and why traditional career swim lanes are disappearing as collaboration becomes more fluid. Here are some quick takeaways from this discussion for tech professionals navigating AI's impact on cr

Beyond AI: What Trends Are Shaping a Cybersecurity Education
For college and university students returning to school or starting as freshmen this fall, the outlook for launching a career in technology, IT, coding, or even cybersecurity appears much bleaker than in years past. Recent computer science and computer engineering majors are now experiencing unemployment rates of 6.1 to 7.5 percent, according to an analysis conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Following that study, the New York Times reported that young tech professionals and recent grads are struggling to find their way in a job industry where many entry-level positions have been eliminated as artificial intelligence and other automation platforms upend the U.S. tech space. Even the promise of AI as a career remains uncertain. Meta recently revised its plans for the company’s AI research and development efforts. The reshuffling at the Facebook parent firm also means staff reductions and fewer open positions. In the case of cybersecurity – a field that traditionally had m