Marianne Broadbent

Dr Marianne Broadbent is an executive advisor, international speaker, author, and specialist in leadership assessment and executive capabilities. She has had a distinguished career in both business and academia with the rare ability to work with different types of business, industry and government executives and professionals. She is a Managing Director at the innovative global executive search, development and talent management firm, Edward W Kelley & Partners (EWK). She leads EWK’s global CIO Centre of Excellence, and, concurrently she is co-leading the further development of EWK’s innovative Leadership Assessment practice. Marianne has traveled the globe to speak at events such as the Business Week Conferences and the Forbes CIO Congress and has led extensive, complex research engagements on such topics as “Designing Effective IT Governance” and the “Evolution of the Role of the Chief Information Officer”. Her reviews laud her as “insightful”, “profound” and “illuminating”.

Marianne has published extensively in both industry and academic presses. She is co-author of two books published by Harvard Business School Press: The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results (first author, HBS Press, 2005) and Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology (co-authored with Peter Weill, HBS Press, 1998). She has won two international awards for articles published in the Sloan Management Review. She has also published in CIO Insight, the MIS Quarterly, the Information Systems Journal, and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

Dr. Broadbent was previously Senior Vice President, New Product Development for Gartner, Inc. where she split her time largely between offices in Stamford, CT (USA) and Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Gartner in this role in 2005, Dr. Broadbent was Associate Dean at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne and held the Chair in Management (Information Systems). From 2000-2003, Dr Broadbent was Group Vice president for Gartner’s Executive Programs, leading CIO research and knowledge assets globally for that service.