Infoblox

Sr. Director, Customer Assurance

KG Consulting

🤖 AI Integration for Business Decisions: Utilizing AI to Improve Decision-making processes.
⚙️ Prompt Engineering and AI Application: Advancing Understanding and Usage of AI for Business Enhancement.
🗃️ Project & Program Management: Ensuring efficient, goal-oriented project outcomes.
💼 Strategic Planning & Execution: Crafting and implementing business strategies informed by extensive industry experience.
📊 Organizational Resilience Assessment: Evaluating and strengthening resilience to market fluctuations.
🚨 Guidance in Crisis Management: Offering leadership to navigate through complex challenges.
🗂️ Process Optimization: Refining operations for optimal efficiency and effectiveness
📑 Customized Consulting Solutions: Developing personalized strategies for unique business needs.
📂 Industry Insights: Providing knowledge and expertise across diverse sectors.

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Uniphore

Vice President Of Global Customer Support & Technical Services

Cisco

Director:  New Product Intoduction (NPI) and Serviceability

CAP Americas Senior Manager

Critical Accounts Executive

GBS:  Shared Service Operations Manager

Manager Strategy & Operations

Finance Business Manager

I'm an executive specializing in AI operations, program management, strategic leadership, and financial management. With a keen focus on enhancing customer experiences and driving operational excellence, I bring a forward-thinking approach to business challenges. 📈 Proficient in Generative AI, crisis management, and prompt engineering, I skillfully navigate complex scenarios with agility and creativity. 🤖

My MBA and professional certifications equip me to excel in diverse, international environments, combining innovative thinking with effective vendor management. 🌍 I'm committed to operational effectiveness and continuous improvement.

Leadership for me is about mentoring and developing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and fostering proactive change. 🌱 My program management expertise is evident in streamlined processes and robust training initiatives, ensuring peak team performance. 🛠️

As a strategic thinker and advisor, I prioritize innovative solutions and value customer insights. 🎧 My objective is to lead with expertise and humility, striving to not just meet but exceed organizational goals while empowering and uplifting my team. 💪

⎸Kristin │Gault

I can help you increase your team's productivity and develop your leadership skills using emotional intelligence and the best tools available for people management.

I don't believe in leadership training anymore. After over 10 years working as head of people strategy for many companies I saw no real results. Leaders would get motivated, but that feeling soon faded away among the everyday routine putting out fires and urgent clients demands.

Since I still believe in leadership as a key solution for productivity and client retention, I designed a whole new approach, totally problem-solution based.

I use my knowledge and experience as a Psychologist and Business Executive and the best coaching and mentoring tools to help my clients find the root of their problems and design a personalized solution.

It is not about having knowledge in leadership and emotional intelligence. It's about having a new perspective on yourself, your team and the results you want to achieve.

Get in touch so we can talk about the solutions for  groups, executives and teams.


Palombini Coaching

“I struggle to influence finance and business stakeholders.”
This is where strong tech leaders often lose strategic ground.

Not because their thinking is weak.
But because influence depends on communicating in a way that connects with what matters to the other side.

In conversations with finance and business leaders, technical accuracy isn’t the deciding factor.
Impact, risk, timing, and trade-offs are.

That became clear in a recent roundtable with senior tech leaders.
When conversations stay technical, influence stays limited.
When they connect to business priorities, buy-in changes.

Several practical shifts emerged:
• Reverse the structure of executive conversations
• Start with financial impact before technical explanation
• Make outcomes explicit early
• Treat these discussions as value conversations, not knowledge transfers

At senior levels, influence is less about expertise and more about perspective.
It requires stepping into the pressures, KPIs, and accountability other C-levels carry — and communicating from there.

💡 One simple way to practice this shift:
Craft an executive elevator pitch that leads with the outcome.

Cost saved.
Risk reduced.
Revenue protected or enabled.
Technical depth becomes optional — not the entry point.

If you recognise this challenge, you’re not alone.
It’s one of the most common influence gaps for tech leaders moving into more strategic roles.

I host invitation-only roundtables for tech executives to work through influence and visibility challenges like this in a practical, peer-led format.

If you’d like to take part in a future session, send me a DM.

Carol Palombini

Coaching Tech Leaders on Executive Presence & Influence | Psychologist

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Influence grows when technical expertise is translated into business impact.

My first time in Prague might just be a memorable one.
I’m honored to be joining Vojtech Vondra, Jan Zenisek and Tomas Rehor in  the lineup of speakers at #ELC26 and to bring an emotional intelligence perspective to tech leadership.

When Marian Kamenistak first reached out, what impressed me most was how intentional the selection process was.
It wasn’t simply a matter of submitting a proposal. He wanted to ensure true alignment: with the audience, the format, and the standard of the event.

This is a different kind of conference.
🔶 No heavy sponsor agenda.
🔶 No generic keynotes.
🔶 A strong focus on authenticity and high-quality content.

As he described the vision, I felt an immediate connection.
The emphasis on real experience, practical relevance, and dynamic delivery mirrors how I approach every session with technical leaders.

If you’re attending, I’d love to connect.
And since it will be my first time in Prague, recommendations for great places to visit or eat are very welcome.

Looking forward knowing to it!

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗩𝗣, 𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗩𝗲𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻?

They are all taking the stage at #ELC26.

We are building a program that covers the entire reality of engineering leadership—from the code to the boardroom.

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 👋 

💙 Vojtech Vondra (Partner Director of Engineering, Microsoft)
𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲.
Vojta leads Entra Edge at Microsoft—the identity backbone securing billions of users across Azure, M365, and Xbox. From hyper-growth at Productboard to enterprise infrastructure at Microsoft, he knows what "high availability" actually means.

🩷 Carol Palombini (Tech Leadership Coach)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻.
A psychologist and former CHRO who helps technical leaders master the "soft" skills that determine your career trajectory: influence, visibility, and communication.

🧡 Jan Zenisek (VP of Product, Apify)
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.
Jan leads product at Apify, bridging the gap between deep tech and business value. He is defining how developers build, deploy, and monetize the next generation of autonomous web automation.

🤎 Tomas Rehor (Head of Engineering, AISLE™)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻.
With 25 years at Skype, Microsoft, and Pipedrive, Tomas has seen every cycle of the industry. Now building AI-native security, he brings deep wisdom on scaling teams and shipping software that users actually trust.

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You can be doing the right work — and still struggle to influence decisions.
Many tech leaders find that when conversations move to finance, business, or board level, their impact suddenly drops.

Not because the thinking is wrong, but because influence depends on how value is communicated.

In this short video, I talk about:
• Why influence is a critical leadership competency for tech leaders
• How communication shapes trust and buy-in at executive level
• One practical shift that helps move from execution to strategic partnership

Influence isn’t about titles or authority.
It’s about connecting your message to what matters to decision-makers.

If this resonates and you’re a tech leader working on visibility and influence, I host invitation-only roundtables where these challenges are explored with peers who face the same realities.

Send me a DM if you’d like to join a future session.

What if failure isn’t the problem?
When tech leaders consider the founder path, the fear often sounds like this:

“What if I fail?”

But in my work with CTOs and senior leaders, that’s rarely the real issue.
The struggle often stems from how failure is interpreted - as something personal, something that defines you, rather than as an opportunity to learn from.

This was one of the themes we explored during the CTO Craft Bytes panel, part of the kind of honest, experience-based conversations I value being involved in as a member of the community committee at CTO Craft.

Thank you to Andy Skipper for the invitation and for creating the space to explore this topic, and to Hywel Carver and Naman Muley for sharing their experience so openly.

Because the founder journey doesn’t just test your skills, it challenges your relationship with mistakes, ego, and control.

If you’re a tech leader navigating these kinds of questions, the CTO Craft community is one of the few places where these conversations happen with real depth and honesty.

Join the CTO Craft Community - https://lnkd.in/dUBYvmCr

Paolo Riccardi, Lucas Van Dijck and 132 other attendees

View event: Executive Visibility & Influence Roundtable For Technology Leaders

Executive Visibility & Influence Roundtable For Technology Leaders

At the last roundtable, something interesting happened.
Leaders came in trying to figure out how to be more convincing and left realizing they needed to do the opposite.

Less pushing.
More listening.

That shift changes everything when it comes to influence.

I wrote about the pattern behind this in the latest issue of Tech Mind Insights.

Why expertise alone won’t get your ideas heard, and how to lead through connection. Many tech executives believe influence comes from having the right

Open article: The Influence Shift Every Tech Leader Must Make by Carol Palombini • 4 min read

The Influence Shift Every Tech Leader Must Make

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