Subject: How 7 Brew’s Danyel Bischof-Forsyth mapped her award-winning CIO journey

Architecting you career as a lattice, embracing learning agility

If you spend enough time around high-performing CIOs, a pattern emerges. Their careers are shaped by intention, courage, and a little luck along the way. That’s certainly true for Danyel Bischof-Forsyth. 


In a new Q&A for my CIO Whisperers column, Danyel looks back over her 35-year career and unpacks the lessons, leaps of faith, and leadership wisdom that have made her journey so extraordinary. She also shares some of the secrets to how she got to where she is today, as well as her advice for charting your own path to the top.

Coming Up Wed., July 16: Afshean Talasaz


Next Whisperers Wednesday, Colonial Pipeline’s Afshean Talasaz joins me to kick off a mini-series of episodes focusing on “Critical Infrastructure for Critical Infrastructure" (CI4CI). With hundreds of billions of dollars being invested into AI, cloud computing, and high-performance workloads, the demand for critical infrastructure is growing exponentially, and tech executives like Afshean are at the center of this transformation.


At Colonial Pipeline, Afshean leads the Technology organization as well as the Special Projects & Innovation team and is responsible for the direction of the company’s technology (IT & OT), digital, data, and AI strategy. Tune in for a fascinating discussion with one of the pioneers helping to reimagine and architect critical infrastructure in the era of AI.