Ivana Watson

20th Annual Conference itSMF Czech Republic

About speaker

Leadership and Business Consultant

Ivana worked in international and regional HR Director positions for Tetra Pak, Toyota Peugeot Citroen Automobiles, Rockwell Automation, Abbott Laboratories etc. Recently she serves as an independent Strategic Change Consultant and as a lecturer at MBA studies of VSB University (program Liverpool John Moores University, UK.), HR Academy and People Management Institute Prague. Her clients are e.g. Unicredit Bank, Unicredit Leasing, Marineharvest Norway, Telecommunications Indonesia, Skoda Mlada Boleslav, SAS Automotive, Danone, Vodafone, CzechTrade, VZP, SAP.


Agenda of the speaker

Key to Succeed in the Digital Transformation: Manage the Change!

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Room: Main stage
16:00 - 16:25
EN
Talk

Working, practical models of Change Management and CIO’s/CTO’s role as a change leader. Insight into people´s attitudes towards changes and how to deal with naturally occurring resistance. The key principles for building flexible, resilient, and innovative teams. Digital era leader is not only passively adopting upcoming challenges, but actively searching for opportunities and participating in IT & Business value co-creation process. And, of course, motivating people for the same.