Bio

Sam is excited and honored to announce that in addition to investing in our next generation of S.T.E.A.M. leaders; she will also be partnering with organizations to ensure we help build long-term success and financial confidence for our military and veteran service members and their families as they begin their transition into the civilian workforce. As a Digital Transformation Leader with a passion for solving big global problems, Sam has committed her career and energy to mentoring and investing in the next generation of youth, in technology, and future leaders. Sam started her IT career as a COBOL programmer, growing into strategic planning and execution roles within multiple Fortune 500 companies. After decades of leading large Business & Technology initiatives, she realized that teams and organizations struggled with common fundamental problems, inefficient communication and collaboration. Driven to solve this problem, she wondered...''What If''. What if she could innovate in this area and began to continuously innovate and evolve herself by expanding her skills in the areas of marketing, neuroscience, psychology, behavioral science and more. The result was astonishing, a simple, tangible and practical framework for efficient communication and collaboration was born. Ready to focus on driving change and solving a global problem, her “passion project” became the driving force. Her reputation as a change agent is shaping future generations of innovators and problem-solvers. By simplifying IT, she realized the focus was on people and processes which could be applied with any technology, any industry and at a global scale. As the founder of ConnectMore, her vision is to inform, inspire and engage both business and technology colleagues in creating a Synergy Revolution.