Midsize Enterprise Summit keynote speaker and behavioral scientist gives event attendees a lesson on loyalty.

A common challenge for many CIO and senior IT leaders, today, is understanding how to build strong and loyal relationships with customers, employees and partners.

“How many of today’s Fortune 500 companies were midsize businesses just a few years ago?” asks HPE Vice President of Enterprise SMB Sales Mike Parrottino.

He and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are taking a vested interest in investing in the up-and-coming disrupters of the present—you.

After serving as the IT leader of The Arc Greater Twin Cities organization for nearly two decades, Paul Harder decided to write the next chapter of his career and life. Harder is now CEO of his own consulting firm, KBP Strategies, which focuses on training sales professionals. (He also served as an official with the USA Track & Field organization for many years, and was a longtime member of the Midsize Enterprise Strategies advisory board.) We caught up with Harder to ask him about his career, request advice for fellow CIOs, and discuss how he coped with change.

Dealing with change is easier said than done. No one knows that better than Larry Bonfante, a veteran CIO, with 35 years of experience in the IT industry. Bonfante recently posted the following blog on how leaders can cope with change.

The one thing in life that is constant is change. There are times in our lives when we choose change. Other times, change chooses us. In either case, we have to decide how we will deal with change. There are three basic approaches we can take to handling change.