LIU006: Stay Technical While Expanding Your Influence

About this episode

The episode discusses how IT professionals can maintain their technical skills while advancing their careers into roles with greater influence.

Is it possible for IT professionals to remain technical when moving into roles that expand influence, scale, and reach? Matt Starling, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Ekahau and co-founder of the WiFi Ninjas podcast, joins Alexis and Kevin to share how your career can evolve beyond on-call operations without losing the technical core. His ... Read more »

People in this episode

Hosts: Alexis, Kevin

Guest: Matt Starling

Topics covered

• IT professionals
• technical skills
• career evolution
• influence
• product marketing

Keywords

• IT professionals
• technical core
• career growth
• influence
• product marketing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ekahau, WiFi Ninjas

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