Have you worked for the same company for fifteen or twenty years and felt stuck or unable to advance into the next-level opportunity?
How do you signal you are ready? How do you help others understand your capabilities and look past perceptions about your readiness to move into
your next executive job?
This edition of “How Your Next Executive Role Finds You” features the compelling career story of Rob Hays, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Lenovo.
Technically, Hays wasn’t “stuck” in his career. He spent over twenty years at Intel Corporation, advancing rapidly and finishing up as the Vice President of the Data Center Group and General Manager of strategic planning. He led the business strategy and product roadmap for Intel’s industryleading Xeon processor family and other silicon products for servers, networking, and storage infrastructure.
His experience spans strategic planning, product management, directing business growth initiatives and leading several acquisitions in the data center silicon industry. Hays also holds two U.S. Patents for inventions related to energy-efficient networking systems. That may not sound like an executive who is stuck, but it can happen to the best of us and at any level.