Steve Strout is a Managing Partner at Altera Partners. He possess expertise in strategy, enterprise software, leadership, management, saas and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "The impact that Steve made on me is impossible to quantify. His passion and enthusiasm for technology and the industry was inspiring and infectious. He approaches everything with a vision, and a trust in the people around him to make that vision a reality. He encouraged people to reach for more than what they thought they were capable of, and accomplish more than they ever thought possible. Steve has the technical know how to be able to size up a situation rapidly, the experience to see it from multiple different angles, the confidence to move towards a solution, and the innate leadership ability to rally his team on that path. While Steve led our team at BlackBerry, we accomplished a complete organizational transformation, and multiple parallel rearchitecture efforts. During a time of immense pressure, downsizing, and company wide unease, morale and productivity in Steve's organization was at a high. Steve was inspiring, working for him was a privilege, and I would not hesitate a moment to work with him again." and "Steve is an amazing leader, he made it his mission to know everyone in his department personally and learn enough about them to inspire and motivate them to reach their own potential. He empowered others to increase their velocity by inspiring the each and every one of us to find ways to contribute. Whether it was about the culture change we needed or devops frameworks or telling us he believed we could get that MBA, he made an impact on each one of us so that we wanted to deliver for him to the best of our abilities.Working with Steve has changed my life personally and professionally."