Scale up your vision: How this leader helped 36 employees become CIOs

Episode 04 | Patrick Thompson, Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer at Albemarle

Most leaders think that alignment is the key to building a successful team. Patrick Thompson, Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer at Albemarle, likes to focus on enablement. By developing his team to share that mindset, he’s completely transformed support at Albemarle — and seen 36 former employees become CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs.

In this episode we discuss…

• How to develop a team of customer-centric leaders (4:10)
• Setting a plan and communicating your vision to your team (5:28)
• Why every leader should create their own “laws of leadership” (6:50)
• Three of Patrick’s laws for leaders (9:16)
• Why you should focus on lead metrics, not lag results (13:04)
• The difference between IT-centric and business-centric CIOs (20:41)
• Modernizing the employee experience at Albemarle (24:04)
• Collaboration between IT and HR (27:03)
• Why employee experience should be the #1 priority for CIOs (29:54)
• Making IT easy for end users by “leaning into the red” (35:25)
• Patrick’s secret to success: “produce more than you consume every day” (39:40)