Creating safe spaces for CISOs to build communities

🎙️🦁 ROAR! hears from the roarsome CISO Alliances duo, Leigh Thomas and James Smith, who are on a mission to create valuable, candid networking platforms for senior executives across multiple industries. Listen to the podcast to find out more 🦁🎙️

Alliance = “A union formed for mutual benefit”.

CISO Alliances = A platform for CISOs to collaborate and learn - to candidly share their experiences and move the industry forward with tangible outcomes.

“If fulfilment can be achieved with a community build, build it as a union formed for mutual benefit” - Leigh

"I'm passionate about pushing forward the industry as a whole and making a difference. Providing a platform for CISO's that they trust and feel comfortable within - a safe space if you will - to be able to freely express their views and share their experiences" - James 

About Leigh

Leigh is the founder of Alliance Media Group. A seeker of the ideal and passionate about achieving it. Leigh is from a Customer Service background working in the Entertainment and Leisure industry which has followed him through his career of working in B2B across enterprise IT, Information & Cyber Security, Oil & Energy & Mining industries. Leigh is directly responsible for the CIO & CISO Alliances in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Nairobi.

About James

James is the director of The CISO Alliances within the UK&I. James uses his experience in customer care to build a community with a personal touch, something that is not often found in the industry. For so long it's been a given that we should just passively listen to vendors sales pitches, but being able to give the community a platform for their voices to be heard and for them to say 'we are the front line guys and girls, you need to listen to us', is paramount. 

Conversation highlights:

We discuss how CISO Alliances is a safe space for CISOs to freely express their views and share their experiences and why this is so important. 
We talk about some of the biggest challenges that CISOs face in the workplace, including the issue of CISO stress and burnout.
We look at the importance for having a community in which CISOs and other c-level executives and IT decision-makers feel comfortable sharing their views and experiences - and how a personal touch benefits these industries.  

Listen to the podcast to find out more!

I absolutely loved this conversation. Thank you Leigh & James for joining me and sharing your passions and insights - I am excited about the work you're doing in this space. Keep going guys 🦁🧡💫 

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