AWS Executive Insights

Building a security culture starts in the C-suite. While this is championed by the CISO, every business and technical leader has a role in communicating and practicing good security behavior across their teams. Steve Schmidt, CISO for AWS Security, shares his best practices and approaches for driving the right behaviors related to proactive security posture, the impact security has on the bottom line, and a plan of action that every executive should have when partnering with their security teams.

Netflix is a company that believes in invention and reinvention. Vernā Myers, Netflix's VP of Inclusion Strategy shares some of the secrets behind Netflix's culture, addressing the importance of having the courage to break new ground, how the company approaches diversity, inclusion, and equity, and why curiosity is one of the most important traits to creating an inclusive culture.

Amazon strives to maintain a Day 1 culture and operating model that is curious, scrappy, and customer-obsessed, embracing new trends and making high-quality decisions at speed. By contrast, a Day 2 mentality focuses on business goals over earning customer trust, breeds complexity and hierarchy, and lets process become a substitute for the right results, leading to stasis and organizational decline. Learn how Amazon builds mechanisms that help ensure that it's always Day 1.

Sheri Rhodes, the CIO of Workday, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to discuss collaboration and leading change. Leading the internal deployment of Workday, transforming how teams operate, and collaborating with other leaders resulted in a variety of learnings. Listen in to hear how Sheri has navigated the change, led her teams, and what advice she recommends for other leaders.

How does a CEO change their mind about how to run their business? What are the challenges and thought processes? Rick Seaney, CEO of 3Victors and FareCompare LP, speaks with Simon about his own personal journey and the lessons he learned.

Su Shan Tan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS, discusses customer-centered innovation, changing the company's culture, and celebrating failure.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Ishit Vachhrajani, and Bryan Landerman tackle the question: "Is there a one-size fits all cloud strategy?". Leaders wonder, can I use a per-defined or templatized cloud adoption strategy? Can something like this exist? Listen in to hear Jake, Ishit, and Bryan answer these questions and share their advice for leaders as they begin their AWS Cloud journey.

Ron Huxter, the VP and CIO of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) sits down to share the surprising benefits they observed following migration.

Louise Higgins, CFO of Technology at ANZ Bank, shares her perspective on the critical role of the CFO in leading major cultural change and earning trust with stakeholders.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani address a common leadership question, "Is there an order to transformation, migration, and modernization?". Leaders often ask which step is the right one to take first for their organization - migrate then transform and modernize, modernize then transform and migrate, or something else?