EIA is kicking off “The Leadership Series” to fill a gap in practical, business-focused guidance for IT leaders wrestling with NetDevOps and network automation, where ad hoc, engineer-driven efforts too often create risk, technical debt, and missed strategic value. Featuring veteran IT leader Anthony Martin—whose career spans aerospace, NASA/JPL, startups, biotech, telecom, and public sector operations—the series aims to give managers through C‑level executives concrete perspective, lessons learned, and answers to tough questions like why network automation still isn’t fully adopted, so leadership can move from cautious spectators to intentional drivers of meaningful, sustainable automation outcomes.