Todd Kackley

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  Leading while healing | Todd Kackley | TEDxSouthlake

  December 12, 2025 · 📺 TEDx Talks

  Todd was a rising Fortune 300 CIO when the doctor said, “I’m sorry, you have cancer.” Four times. Each recurrence came at the exact moment his career was peaking - new division, largest aircraft program in history, Global CIO promotion, pioneering Generative AI. Instead of hiding, he chose radical vulnerability: telling his new team on day one, leading chemo from his laptop, and showing up scarred and frail. What happened next wasn’t just survival — it was transformation. A low-morale team became one of the most innovative in aerospace, winning generational contracts while he walked his dau…

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  Todd Kackley VP & CIO, Textron — HMG Spotlight

  August 05, 2024 · 📺 HMG Strategy

  For more information, please Visit https://hmgstrategy.com/ HMG Strategy is the world's leading digital platform for connecting business technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 400,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders. HMG Strategy’s digital platform and global media model generates 1 million impressions per week. LinkedIn:   / hmg-strategy-llc   Twitter: https:/…

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  Digital Twins are Transforming Aerospace Industry! ft. Todd Kackley | Better Tech

  July 03, 2024 · 📺 BetterTech

  Digital Twins are Transforming Aerospace Industry! . In this episode of the BetterTech podcast, host Sophia Moshasha interviews Todd Kackley, VP and CIO at Textron. Todd shares insights into his journey in IT, starting from ERP consulting to leading Textron's technology initiatives. He discusses the importance of model-based enterprise and digital twins, highlighting how these technologies enhance product lifecycle management from design to manufacturing and sustainment. Todd explains how Textron uses augmented and virtual reality to improve both internal operations and customer engagement.…

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  Tech Driven Business Episode 43: Leveraging Gen AI with Todd Kackley

  March 21, 2024 · 📺 Innovative Solution Partners

  In this latest episode, Mustansir Saifuddin delves into the ever-evolving landscape of Gen AI with Todd Kackley, Vice President and CIO of Textron. Todd shares how his team implemented their inaugural generative AI solution and the crucial role leaders play in crafting scalable, well-governed, and future-proof data analytics and AI infrastructure. Todd shares invaluable insights into striking the balance between leveraging third-party capabilities and developing in-house models, shedding light on the dynamic interplay between proprietary solutions and open source technologies. Whether you're…

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  HMG Digital Spotlight Interview with Todd Kackley, Textron

  February 14, 2024 · 📺 HMG Strategy

  2024 Global Leadership Institute Award Winner, Todd Kackley, VP & CIO at Textron joins us for an HMG Digital Spotlight Interview. For more information, please Visit https://hmgstrategy.com/ Hunter Muller talks about upcoming events that HMG Strategy will be hosting. HMG Strategy is the world's leading digital platform for connecting business technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 400,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capita…

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  Textron CIO on Connectivity & Alignment Across Customers, Products, & Business | Technovation 836

  January 11, 2024 · 📺 Metis Strategy

  The world of technology is increasingly becoming more and more connected offering valuable data to enterprises offering such products. At Textron, this data provides critical insight into product usage and allows the company to offer true value-added services to its customers. On this episode of Technovation, Global CIO Todd Kackley explains how he has built a better-connected business and aligned the IT function that reports to him. He discusses the collaboration between the Divisional CIOs, ascending to the Global CIO post, and the North Star Strategy he follows to foster this alignment. Tod…

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