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A Year of Leadership with CFTA
CFTA members spend their careers producing trusted information. The harder part is what happens next, when that information has to travel into a room where decisions get made by people who do not share the technical vocabulary.
This year, CFTA is partnering with Izabela Miller of Growing Curiosity on a year-long leadership series built around exactly that step. Two complementary webinars, open to members and non-members, followed by the keynote at the 2027 conference at the University of Pittsburgh.
November 17, 2026. Leading a Program You Inherited (Without Being an Expert in It). For the professional who did not build the program they now have to lead, defend, and grow. On gaining buy-in from senior leadership.
Spring 2027. From Pilot to Program: Securing Funding for What You Have Been Building. On the pilot that proved itself and then stalled because the executive conversation never happened.
August 2027, at the conference. The Leader Behind the Technology. On developing as a leader while still carrying a full technical workload.
Izabela Miller is the author of The Science of GIS Leadership, built from more than sixty interviews with technical leaders across GIS, facilities, and enterprise technology. She spent twenty years in the field, from intern to IT Director in state government, before she started teaching this work.
Registration for the November session is open now!
