Join us in-person on Fri. Aug 25 for an afternoon CIO Mini-Summit Workshop featuring the Founding Director of the Global Center for Anticipatory Intelligence followed by dinner and the Tony Award Winning play "Newsies" at Hale Center Theatre for you and a guest. 

REGISTER NOW!  https://aimutah.org/event-5352110

Our Friday August 25 Afternoon Agenda:

• 1:30pm  Arrival @ WCF and registration: grab your evening event tickets
  
  
• 2-4:30pm (including a 30 minute networking break): 
  
  Blindspots Workshop: The Cultural Forces at Work on American Executive Decisionmaking (a.k.a What CIOs Can Learn from a Former Spy) - Jeannie Johnson, Founding Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence
  
  Culture impacts our individual identities, the norms we practice, the character traits and material goods that we value, and our perceptions of what is important, effective, and "right." Most of us are largely unconscious of the default settings in thinking and practice that are derived from the cultures in which we were socialized. Our discussion will highlight some key aspects of the American cultural experience and explore the ways in which these have impacted our foreign and security policy. With these examples in mind, we will collectively assess how these same traits have impacted American work life, resulting in patterned behavior that may or may not be optimal for CIO best practices.
  
  
• 4:30pm Adjourn

On your registration, please indicate if you (and optional guest) are requesting tickets for dinner and play. Tickets will be assigned by order of registration, so please register early:

• 5:30pm Dinner @ Hale Center Legacy Room

• 7:30pm "Newsies: The Broadway Musical" @ Hale Theatre

REGISTER NOW

Featured Presenter:

Jeannie L. Johnson is the Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence (CAI) on USU’s campus. The CAI uses interdisciplinary problem-solving teams to tackle complex security concerns resulting from converging trends in emergent tech, bioengineering, data science, and a changing climate.

Dr. Johnson worked within the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Intelligence as a member of the Balkan Task Force from 1998-1999 and served with the US State Department in Embassies Paris and Zagreb. The Cultural Topography analytic method she pioneered with co-author Matt Berrett was featured in CIA’s June 2011 edition of Studies in Intelligence.

Dr. Johnson’s primary research interest, strategic culture, examines the impact of national and organizational cultures on the formation of security policy. Dr. Johnson has applied strategic culture analysis to the nuclear issue and has co-edited two books on that topic. She has also conducted in-depth research on US national and military service cultures, including critical blind spots in US foreign and security policy.

She served on US Defense Secretary Mattis’s Close Combat Lethality Task Force as a subject matter expert and continues to work with the intelligence community and military services on advancing the strategic impact of cultural analysis.

Thanks to the 2023 sponsor of the CIO Roundtables:  First Digital