Ingrid Curtis, The Defining Leadership Challenge is Repositioning Companies from Digital-First to Data-First

Ingrid Curtis, The Defining Leadership Challenge is Repositioning Companies from Digital-First to Data-First

June 16, 2026 · 52 min · Episode 315

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Ingrid Curtis discusses the shift from digital-first to data-first in enterprise leadership.

Ingrid Curtis -- she spent 17 years helping build one of the most ambitious digital transformation platforms in enterprise. She then became its CEO, and her first move was to say the whole thing needed to be rebuilt. She has a rare kind of credibility; she didn’t just form opinions about why enterprise aI initiatives keep failing, she helped build the infrastructure that’s now becoming the bottleneck. And rather than quietly course-correct, she’s calling it out openly. As CEO of Sparq, she’s repositioning the company from digital-first to data-first, and she believes this shift is about to become the defining leadership challenge in enterprise.

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Host: Steve Anderson

Guest: Ingrid Curtis

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Organizations: Sparq, enterprise, digital transformation platforms, enterprise aI initiatives

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