Raj Sethuraman's guest appearances

Raj Sethuraman

Geeks Who Lead Podcast (formerly CTO Connection)

Joel Beasley | Modern CTO

The Ivy Podcast

Dave Mangot

Travis Kimmel

Dan Jones

Raghavendra Prabhu

Ryan Graciano

Ismael Peinado

Rob Zuber

David Blair

Nick Caldwell

David Schwartz

John Larson

Jeff Rose

Donna Johnson

David King

Andy Budd

OwlTail

According to Raj Sethuraman, good technology cannot be a successful technology unless it solves customer problems and drives great business outcomes. Raj is currently CTO at Wolters Kluwer and got his start at Intuit. The common thread throughout his career has been establishing customer-centricity to better inform technical decisions.He is our guest this week on CTO Connection and talked to Peter about a program he likes called “Follow Me Home” in which he and other team members sit down with customers to find out how they use products and what could make them work better. Listen for his insights.(01:21) - Transitioning to leadership(03:48) - Customer centricity(05:16) - Follow me home(12:26) - Co-creating value(16:57) - Badass: Making Users Awesome(18:24) - Achieving quick wins faster(22:01) - Appetite for change(24:51) - Managing pushback (28:01) - Hiring for culture fit(30:30) - Engineer rotation(32:29) - Innovation priorities Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to aws-cto-program@amazon.com if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.CTO Connection is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating, or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.Podcast episode production by Dante32.

According to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsethuraman1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Raj Sethuraman</a>, good technology cannot be a successful technology unless it solves customer problems and drives great business outcomes. Raj is currently CTO at Wolters Kluwer and got his start at Intuit. The common thread throughout his career has been establishing customer-centricity to better inform technical decisions.He is our guest this week on CTO Connection and talked to Peter about a program he likes called “Follow Me Home” in which he and other team members sit down with customers to find out how they use products and what could make them work better. Listen for his insights.<ul><li>(01:21) - Transitioning to leadership</li><li>(03:48) - Customer centricity</li><li>(05:16) - Follow me home</li><li>(12:26) - Co-creating value</li><li>(16:57) -<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/1491919019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Badass: Making Users Awesome</a></li><li>(18:24) - Achieving quick wins faster</li><li>(22:01) - Appetite for change</li><li>(24:51) - Managing pushback </li><li>(28:01) - Hiring for culture fit</li><li>(30:30) - Engineer rotation</li><li>(32:29) - Innovation priorities </li></ul>Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to <a href="mailto:aws-cto-program@amazon.com">aws-cto-program@amazon.com</a> if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.<a href="https://www.ctoconnection.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CTO Connection</a> is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating, or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2N0b2Nvbm5lY3Rpb24%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3GKpjcEH3ydikWnDDDBpLv?si=vm0dges2QiKoLehoFAR24g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>. It really helps others find the show.<a href="https://www.dante32.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast episode production by Dante32.</a>

Why Customer Centricity is Key to Company Culture with Raj Sethuraman

Raj Sethuraman has over 24 years of experience in technology space working across multiple industries delivering large  scale technology platforms, launching customer centric innovative solutions and building high performing global teams. He is a Harvard Business School Alum and earned his MBA from University of Southern California. Currently he is serving as CTO for Wolters Kluwer ELM Business. 

Raj Sethuraman has over 24 years of experience in technology space working across multiple industries delivering large  scale technology platforms, launching customer centric innovative solutions and building high performing global teams. He is a Harvard Business School Alum and earned his MBA from University of Southern California. Currently he is serving as CTO for Wolters Kluwer ELM Business.

Raj Sethuraman – CTO at Wolters Kluwer

Today we are talking to Raj, the CTO at Wolters Kluwer’s.  And we discuss his unique thoughts on the 3 levels of leadership, the importance of having a mentor to help guide you, and how humility and vulnerability can help you to be a better leader.All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

Today we are talking to Raj, the CTO at Wolters Kluwer’s. And we discuss his unique thoughts on the 3 levels of leadership, the importance of having a mentor to help guide you, and how humility and vulnerability can help you to be a better leader. All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

#182 Raj Sethuraman - CTO at  Wolters Kluwer ELM