When Bruce Maas became DoIT CIO in 2011, he provided funding for anyone in the IT community to participate in MOR IT leadership professional development programs. After the 2012-2013 MOR program Brenda Spychalla, Assistant Director for IT, MERIT, Brandon Bernier, Director of User Services, DoIT, and Deborah Helman, Director of Wendt Commons especially bonded and challenged themselves to determine how to:
- Best apply their newly recognized IT Leadership Program skills
- Sustain the drive and energy of the program
- Work on regular connected IT Leadership projects
Some of their obstacles included.
- UW IT being a large distributed environment
- An untapped IT Leadership program pipeline
- Disconnected leadership programs and projects