My S4E15 guest is Matt Ryan! Matt is an enterprise technology leader who has driven performance and results partnering with sales throughout his tech industry career.  He has been praised by colleagues and leadership for leading projects from concept through completion, lifting operational results, growing platform adoption and driving employee performance.  Matt gets specifically called out for his ability to orchestrate messaging between staff and senior leadership to achieve big-picture goals and transition through clarity.  Business transformation has been a consistent win for Matt with both Fortune-sized and high-growth tech firms. He’s joining us today to share some of his people-management lessons and a few techniques he applies with his teams.  You’ll hear Matt talk about the value of your brand, your network connections with other leaders, and how manager-brand-strength is a key tool for your team’s success. He’ll also share some tips on how he Encourages Innovation. 

I’ve invited Matt to the ManagerMirror because he’s successfully led teams through transition in a variety of different sized organizations. Matt’s career began with an internship at Baxter in 1999 right at the time of the Y2K transition that turned into a software engineering role.  Matt then did technology consulting at IBM for 6 years in HCM and Financials ERP space. He stepped into people-leadership role with Alight Solutions in 2012 in a rapidly growing Workday practice. Matt spent 8 years with Alight ascending from Director level roles in cloud services to leading their Workday practice as a VP before leaving to join Slack in September of 2020. Matt built a professional services team at Slack and earned the coveted “Leader of the Year” award for his delivery of rapid hiring, GTM development, and building a professional services competency around product enabled and tech architecture.  Matt prides himself in mentoring and driving customer satisfaction through team growth and development.  Today, he’s the Vice President of a rapidly growing Enterprise Solutions team at Upwork, and he’s joining us to share his story, and a few techniques we can put into practice with our teams. Follow Matt on LinkedIn to stay current with his leadership content!