Greetings! I’m Isaac Sacolick
It’s great meeting you! Please take some time to get to know me, and here are three things you should know:
I share what I know! - I have written 900+ articles, authored one Amazon bestselling book (Driving Digital), recently released my second book (Digital Trailblazer), and speak at 50+ in-person and virtual events yearly. I share insights on digital transformation, agile ways of working, successful product management programs, devops culture, becoming a data-driven organization, data governance, winning with low-code tech, and driving transformative change.
My experiences are highly relevant to everyone! - I was a CTO in startups, a CIO in transforming organizations, and now lead StarCIO, where we guide leaders on smarter, faster, safer, and more innovative transformations that deliver business results. I’ve guided teams in discovering new product ideas, delivering customer-facing applications, enabling analytics as a service, migrating to the cloud, automating data processing, and many other digital innovations.
I’m here to help you succeed! - Driving successful transformations, navigating your career, leading complex programs, and learning what’s relevant has never been more important! Please take advantage of my free writing and speaking. Reach out to me with questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them promptly. Review my Driving Digital Guides and consider StarCIO’s services where we provide value.
Please read on to learn more! And don’t be shy! Please reach out so I can get to know you!
Isaac
Thought Leadership by Isaac Sacolick
I publish 10+ articles per month on the StarCIO Blog, Social, Agile, and Transformation, at InfoWorld, and CIO.com. Watch my videos at the Driving Digital Standup and join the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers. Sign up for the monthly Driving Digital Newsletter.
StarCIO Agile Planning by Isaac Sacolick
StarCIO Agile Planning is a guide for organizations that want to transform to an agile way of working. The guides and workshops are designed to help agile leaders adopt continuous planning, estimation, release management, and user experience monitoring with agile teams that include business, technology, and data specialists. To learn more about StarCIO agile planning, review the white paper, workshops, and consider becoming a certified StarCIO Agile Planner.
Testimonials From Digital Trailblazer
Testimonials From Driving Digital
“The most important work for today’s CIO is to bring digital capabilities to the enterprise. From Agile to DevOps to big data, Sacolick breaks the daunting concept of “digital” into manageable pieces and offers a pragmatic guide toward transformation.” - Martha Heller, Author Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT
“The battleground for business transformation has never been as well-defined as it is today, nor have the stakes been higher. Most literature on the topic gets mired down in ‘technology’ or stays so far above the fray that it’s ‘mom and apple pie.’ Isaac’s approach is practical and tactical with real-life lessons that can supplement any executive’s playbook with a highly positive impact for business” - Anthony Juliano, CTO, General Partner, Landmark Ventures
About StarCIO Workshops
StarCIO’s workshops are designed to bring multi-disciplinary groups together to discuss strategy, priorities, and the beginning of a new way of working. Workshop agendas are set from over fifty modules covering digital transformation, agile ways of working, product management, data-driven organizations, data governance, and DevOps. They are done virtually or in person for groups of ten to one hundred participants. There’s no better way to collaborate and align teams than to partner with me on workshops!
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About Isaac Sacolick - President, CIO, Author
Isaac Sacolick is the Founder and President of StarCIO, a company that helps SMBs and enterprises compete with data and technology, develop transformational centers of excellence, and execute smarter, faster, safer, and more innovative transformation programs. A lifelong technologist, Isaac has served as a CTO in media and social networking startups and a transformational CIO roles at media, financial services, and construction industry businesses.
Isaac has led digital transformation, product development, innovation, agile management, and data science programs in multiple organizations. He has transformed underperforming businesses by delivering new digital products, investing in strategic technologies, enabling agile practices, outsourcing commodity services, and establishing performance metrics.
He founded StarCIO with the belief that agile ways of working and data-driven practices can empower diverse teams to drive transformation. StarCIO partners with leaders at small-and-medium businesses and enterprises to develop centers of excellence in key “Driving Digital” transformational practices. And through Isaac’s thought leadership and evangelist services, StarCIO helps technology companies build awareness and connect with tech, data, and innovation leaders.
Isaac is the author of the Amazon bestseller, Driving Digital where he shares many of his best practices in leading digital transformation. The book has received significant praise. Forbes.com called it a, “…timely, engaging, and practical roadmap to developing and implementing digital strategies.” The Heller Search Associate remarked, “Sacolick is an experienced CIO with multiple transformation efforts under his belt. His new book is packed with insights, guidelines, and stories from the front lines of transformation.” Driving Digital was listed as the #2 book for CIO and IT Leaders by CIO UK.
Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership is now available and received over twenty endorsements from digital leaders. The book has been featured on CIO.com, The Enterpriser’s Project, InfoWorld, and Heller Search.
Isaac has been recognized as a top 100 social CIO, blogger, and industry speaker on many business enabling topics including digital transformation, innovation, enterprise agile, AI, and big data analytics. Isaac has been writing a blog, Social, Agile, and Transformation for over fifteen years with 500+ posts covering topics on CIO leadership, digital transformation, agile ways of working, data-driven organizations (including data governance, dataops, data science, machine learning, and AI), innovation, DevOps / ITSM, organizational change, and CIO leadership. Isaac also posts at CIO.com's Driving Digital Transformation and is a contributing contributor at InfoWorld. Check out and subscribe to his YouTube channel, the Driving Digital Standup.
He has been recognized as an industry leading, agile, innovative CIO. In 2018, he was identified as a top digital transformation influencer by IDG, Enterprise Management 360, and Thinkers 360. In 2015 he was interviewed by Forbes on 5 Things to do When Leading a Digital Transformation, was listed on their Top 20 Social CIOs and was recognized as a Top 100 CIO in STEM. In 2016, 2015 and 2014, he was listed on Huffington Post’s Top Social CIOs.