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Barbara Cooper is listed as CIO - Toyota Motor North America (Retired) CIO Hall of Fame| Lifetime Achievement Award| Legends Award| Top 100 Women in Automotive Industry at CIO Executive Council from IDC, based in Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Barbara Cooper.
Barbara Cooper previously worked as President at Executive Coaching - Barbara L. Cooper Consulting Service Llc and Executive Coach at Cio Executive Council From Idc. Barbara Cooper holds Bs, Education (History & Geography) from University Of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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A highly successful and industry recognized corporate career spanning four decades and crossing five industries: retail, financial services, municipal government, logistics/distribution and automotive. An innovator and risk-taker known for her passion for business alignment, organizational strategy, optimizing and developing exceptional IT talent.She became the first female Vice President in the technology function at American Express and led the company globally into the personal computing and networking generation, connecting travel offices and operating centers around the world together for the first time. Her reputation as an innovator and risk taker built from there as she took on her first CIO role at Maricopa County, Arizona, the fourth largest in the US. She was appointed acting County Manager during a serious and widely publicized financial crisis in 1994. Established a turnaround strategy that avoided bankruptcy and established a viable budget and funding model leading to financial stability. Her reputation as a successful turnaround and transformational leader established, she started being recruited for even more challenging CIO roles. She was recruited by Toyota having spent a short fourteen months as the CIO for MicroAge. She was recruited from MicroAge by Toyota to transform an IT function not keeping pace with the dramatic growth of the business in North America. As CIO of Toyota, she was responsible for modernizing the company’s technology, the IT organization, and governance practices. In addition to her CIO role, she also led the University of Toyota that was responsible to the professional development of all Toyota staff as well as the training support for all Lexus & Toyota dealership technicians. Barbara was the founder of the first business support network for women in Toyota. She established her own business in 2013 specializing in Executive Coaching for "C"-SUITE executives and their direct reports as well as a focus on CIO’s and senior IT management. She serves as a coach for IDG's CIO Executive Council’s Pathways Program as well as coaching clients directly in both private and public sector IT as part of her consulting company.
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Consulting practice focusing on executive coaching, diagnosing IT organizations in trouble or transition, and teaching courses in professional development and navigating corporate politics for women.Serves as an Executive Coach for the CIO Executive Council's Pathways Program and private clients. Serves as a member of the City of Phoenix Business.
Plano, TX, US
Barbra Cooper retired January 2012 as group vice president and chief information officer for Toyota North America. She was responsible for the strategy, development and operation of all systems and technology that support Toyota in the North America region. She was also responsible for leading the University of Toyota, corporate training and professional.
Phoenix, AZ, US
After leading the crisis management team at Maricopa County and successfully avoiding bankruptcy, she decided to continue to pursue her career through the private sector and was recruited for a CIO position at MicroAge based in Tempe, AZ. Established the first IT strategy that was linked to the business objectives and led the IT organization to a much more.
Phoenix, AZ, US
Recruited by Maricopa County (Phoenix Arizona) as their CIO and served in that role for three years when appointed by the Board of Supervisors as Acting County Manager during a serious financial crisis serving in that capacity for 10 months until they recruited a new County Manager. Responsible for leading the County out of a near bankruptcy during that.
New York, NY, US
Recruited into American Express with the title of Manager of Office Automation (pre-PC's) with a global responsibility. Rose to Vice President in less than four years. The first female Vice President in American Express technology function globally. Responsible for introducing PC's, end user computing and client server computing to the company. Global.
This was one of the last of the old full line independent owned department store chains. HQ in Lincoln, NE and in the same family for over 104 years. I was recruited from there by American Express in 1985 and by 1987 they were bought out by Dillards department stores. I started as a temporary Assistant to the President of the company and within a year.
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Barbara Cooper works for CIO Executive Council from IDC.
Barbara Cooper is listed as CIO - Toyota Motor North America (Retired) CIO Hall of Fame| Lifetime Achievement Award| Legends Award| Top 100 Women in Automotive Industry at CIO Executive Council from IDC.
Barbara Cooper is based in Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States while working with CIO Executive Council from IDC.
Barbara Cooper has worked for Executive Coaching - Barbara L. Cooper Consulting Service Llc, Cio Executive Council From Idc, Toyota North America, Microage, and Maricopa County.
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Barbara Cooper holds Bs, Education (History & Geography) from University Of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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