2025 CIO Hall Of Famers: 8 Tips For Building A Successful IT Leadership Career
CIO, Monday, August 18th, 2025
What does it take to get to the top IT position? This year's CIO Hall of Fame inductees offer hard-earned advice for achieving rewarding career growth at the intersection of business and IT.
Amy Brady has neither the academic credentials nor the early-career experiences typical for a CIO. The new inductee into the CIO Hall of Fame holds bachelor's degrees in psychology and music, and spent the first 15 years of her professional life as a banker.
But when asked by the president of Bank of America, where she was employed in the early aughts, to build an innovation and development team, Brady said yes. The then president wanted to build the bank of the future, and Brady had a reputation as a change agent.
That role, Brady explains, 'exposed me to technology and what was going to happen with technology in our industry.'