How to Use Adaptability to Harness Your Career Growth

Tara Barbieri, Cecelia Myers

How to Use Adaptability to Harness Your Career Growth

Let’s face it: change is inevitable.

But we live in a constantly changing world, and your ability to adapt and overcome plays a huge role in your career.

We all know that the higher you climb on the career ladder, the more adaptability is required of you professionally. But...

Let’s face it: change is inevitable.

But we live in a constantly changing world, and your ability to adapt and overcome plays a huge role in your career.

We all know that the higher you climb on the career ladder, the more adaptability is required of you professionally. But while education and experience are important to dealing with change, it’s the soft skills — being comfortable with taking risks and being capable of adapting to change — that play the biggest roles in your success.

That’s why CDW’s Tara Barbieri (VP of Services Orchestration) and Cecelia Myers (VP of Digital) will be joining us to talk about the importance of adaptability and how change isn’t an obstacle in your career — it’s an opportunity. They will share their experience in overcoming difficult situations, how they used change as an opportunity to grow, and how their adaptability was the ultimate key to their success.

In this discussion you will learn:

How to become more comfortable with change and taking risks
How to foster strategic thinking to navigate both yourself and your team through new and unprecedented scenarios
How to leverage your “change” level to grow your career, and how you can find those new opportunities in the midst of the change

Meet The Speakers

Tara Barbieri

Vice President, Integrated Services Orchestration, CDW

Tara Barbieri is vice president of integrated technology orchestration for CDW. She is responsible for the development, management and governance of CDW services. Orchestration teams include Services Operations, Warranty & Renewals, Strategic Programs and our IP engine with R&D and CDW Built.

Tara joined CDW-G in September 2003. She served as director of program sales where her team handled demand generation, opportunity development, capture strategies, proposal preparation and contract negotiations for all segments of the CDW business. Prior to working at CDW-G, Barbieri’s career spanned nearly a decade, including roles as an account manager and concluding as director of contracts for Micro Warehouse, a direct reseller of branded IT products and services to business.

Tara is an executive sponsor of the BRAVE business resource group focused on equity for LGBTQ+ coworkers and an active sponsor for CDW’s Women’s Opportunity Network, which helps to advance the careers of women in IT through mentoring, facilitated networking and formal leadership training. She is also the Chief Steward of the CDW Strava club where you can join and follow along with our monthly focus and friendly competition.

Cecelia Myers

Vice President of Digital, CDW

Cecelia Myers is Vice President of Digital at CDW, leading CDW's Product Management, Design, Demand Gen, Customer Integrations, and Merchandising teams.

Her wide-ranging experience across product management & development, product & marketing design, creative direction, e-commerce, venture capital, and entrepreneurship brought her to CDW with the goal of transforming how CDW customers digitally interact with their world-class sellers.

Prior to CDW she led Product and design teams at Groupon, and before that co-founded a venture-backed startup, CakeStyle, as a founder-in-residence at Sandbox Industries.

Cecelia has a MS in Product Design & Development from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and attended Indiana University for her undergraduate degree in Literature.

As a Lymphoma survivor, she also leads several charity initiatives with the Lymphoma Research Foundation and is a Mentor Angel with Imerman Angels.

Cecelia lives in Oak Park with her husband, Matt, and their three-year-old son, Ben.