Daphne E. Jones is a seasoned executive with extensive experience transforming business processes and implementing digital technologies to drive market growth, seamless customer fulfillment & internal efficiencies within Fortune 50 corporations. She has over thirty years of experience in general management and executive level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. During her tenure at GE, she served as: SVP for Future of Work, and ran IT as SVP & CIO Product Engineering, Imaging & Aftermarket Services, a $13B segment of GE Healthcare. She helped innovate with AI, enabling predictive maintenance, design for additive & other advanced technologies to help GE be first movers in the healthcare market. She co-led a global team that defined GE’s Digital DNA.
Prior to GE Healthcare, her early career days were spent at IBM and Johnson & Johnson as Executive Director, VP IT, followed by her role as SVP & CIO at Hospira, Inc. a $5B global pharma & and infusion technology company. At Hospira, she led all aspects of Hospira’s enterprise, infrastructure, cyber, digital & analytics technology.
Daphne serves on the board of directors for AMN Healthcare, Inc., Barnes Group Inc, and Masonite International Corp, and is on audit, compensation & governance committees. Named by Savoy Magazine, “one of most influential AA Directors in 2021”, she is a member of the NACD, Accenture Cybersecurity Council, The Digital Directors Network (DDN), and the ELC.
She is the founder of The Board Curators – a company that prepares senior leaders for board service (www.theboardcurators.com) and is launching her book in Fall 2022 from McGraw-Hill entitled ‚“Win When They Say You Won’t“.
In her book, the reader experiences Daphne’s ascent from the bottom to the top, from poverty to prosperity, starting as a Jamaican-American student living in one of the poorest cities in Illinois. In life, careers, and in organizations, women are often underestimated and overlooked by those in power; and people of color struggle through even lower expectations. Those low expectations have stymied growth for many. Daphne’s goal is to create an inclusive movement to turn the tides on that for all leaders who simply want to win. When it comes to seeking success, she have experienced that the word ‘impossible’ is just someone’s opinion. she wants the readers to instead use the world ‘inevitable’ to describe their pending success.
Using her stories and those of other women as examples, Daphne’s 4 part “EDIT” methodology guides the reader through exploring and transforming their current mindset to enable their own continuous improvement and transformation. Drawing on her extensive background in software development and implementation, the EDIT steps are based on the common steps used by software developers who successfully create and implement new versions of software, devices and more.
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