438 - Stop Waiting To Be Invited W/ Bill Garcia
You've Been Heard, Monday, July 13th, 2026
IT leaders must translate technology into business outcomes and stop waiting for an invitation to the strategic table.
Bill Garcia, VP of IT for TMEIC Corporation Americas, discusses how IT leaders lose credibility by speaking technology fluently but failing to communicate business impact.
Drawing on experience in process redesign, ERP transformation, and COO roles across multiple industries and countries, Garcia describes effective leadership as being an orchestra director who removes roadblocks and enables teams.
He stresses governance as an accelerator for AI initiatives, the need for clean data foundations, and capturing institutional knowledge before key employees retire.
Garcia identifies the credibility gap and the talent shortage as IT's biggest challenges, advocating soft skills and communication over hard technical skills as the modern differentiator.