🎙️ Episode 21: Tonjia Coverdale – Leadership, Legacy & The Future of AIIn this episode of Silicon Heartland Sessions, we sit down with Dr. Tonjia Coverdale, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Operations and Technology at Associated Bank. A visionary leader with nearly three decades of experience in technology and business transformation, Tonjia shares deep insights on leadership, AI, and building an authentic legacy.✨ Key Takeaways from This Episode:✅ Life-Work Flow, Not Work-Life Balance – How reframing priorities leads to sustainable success.✅ Leading with Empathy – Why seeing the whole person creates high-performing, inspired teams.✅ AI & The Future of Work – How AI is expanding opportunities and reshaping industries.✅ Data Without Context Is Empty – The importance of strategic data foundations for AI adoption.✅ Know Yourself, Lead with Purpose – Why defining your core values is the foundation for confidence and success.💡 One of our favorite takeaways from Tonjia:💬 “You are not your job. You are not your title. You are who you choose to be. When you embrace that, your light shines the brightest.” ✨🎙️ A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors for making this episode possible!🙌 Rackspace Technology – We advise, design, build, and manage solutions across the multicloud, applications, data, and security.🙌 Varonis – A pioneer in data security and analytics, providing a platform to manage, analyze, and secure enterprise data against insider threats and cyberattacks.🙌 Trace3 – AI to help your business run, grow, and transform.🙌 Sigma Computing – Next-generation cloud analytics and business intelligence with a spreadsheet interface, enabling teams to analyze live data at scale.

🎙️ A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors for making this episode possible!

🙌 Rackspace Technology – We advise, design, build, and manage solutions across the multicloud, applications, data, and security.

🙌 Varonis – A pioneer in data security and analytics, providing a platform to manage, analyze, and secure enterprise data against insider threats and cyberattacks.

🙌 Trace3 – AI to help your business run, grow, and transform.

🙌 Sigma Computing – Next-generation cloud analytics and business intelligence with a spreadsheet interface, enabling teams to analyze live data at scale.

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