Session: From Homeless to C-Suite: A Story of Courage and Resilience
This is a story of hope and encouragement. A story of pushing through adversity - single motherhood, homelessness, and stage 4 cancer - building resilience, and successfully navigating a career in IT, cybersecurity, and compliance. A story of positivity, strength, encouragement, and giving back to others along the not so straight path to reaching the C-Suite.
Bio
Ms. Beth Leonard, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for R3 (www.r3-it.com), is an award-winning speaker in her field; frequently invited to both local and international-level industry events to speak about such topics as compliance, information and cybersecurity, governance, quality, and customer satisfaction using industry best practices and standards such as NIST, CMMC, ISO, CMMI, NIST, SOC 2, and ITIL.
Ms. Leonard is a well-respected executive with over 30 years of IT and Information Security (IS) management, compliance, quality assurance, and process improvement experience across government contracting and commercial industries.
She is a Neuroendocrine (NET) Cancer continuing survivor and patient advocate supporting national and international organizations, and promotes positivity on her blog on Facebook - “Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer”.