# Spheres of Influence with Brad Englert Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect/spheres-of-influence-with-brad-englert Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect/spheres-of-influence-with-brad-englert.md Podcast: [Austin Tech Connect: The Podcast For The Austin Technology Ecosystem, Business Leaders, and Tech Entrepreneurs!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect) Published: 2024-07-09T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://a7b1cb29-8eb2-4801-9ccb-e0eb899497ab.libsyn.com/spheres-of-influence-with-brad-englert Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/a7b1cb29-8eb2-4801-9ccb-e0eb899497ab/ep_82_ATC.mp3?dest-id=3729132 Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/austin-tech-connect/episodes/spheres-of-influence-with-brad-englert Duration seconds: 1992 ## Resource Brad Englert is an author, advisor and technologist who has had a long tech career in Austin. He is a civic minded leader is now dedicated to helping others craft their success. His new book "Spheres of Influence: How to creat and nurture authentic business relationships" is now available on Amazon (or wherever you get your books). He spent 22 years at Accenture, and then 8 years a CIO at UT Austin. He believes his successful career came from being able to transcend a traditional network. Best advice he ever got about being a leader? "Get out of the office and tell them you give a damn". About Brad Enlgert Brad Englert is the founder of Brad Englert Advisory and an author, advisor, and technologist. Brad worked for Accenture in Austin for 22 years, including 10 years as a partner. He then served The University of Texas at Austin for eight years, including seven years as the chief information officer. Brad earned a masters of public affairs degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of arts degree in social sciences with honors and distinction from Shimer College, which is now the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. About the book "Spheres of Influence" Spheres of Influence: How to Create and Nurture Authentic Business Relationships, offers a practical guide to help emerging and established leaders develop and perfect the critical hard skill of building effective and lasting professional relationships. The crunchy, real-world stories in this book are relevant to a diverse range of industries, organizations, and backgrounds. The internal sphere of influence are those relationships with whom you have the most impact: boss, executive leaders, direct reports and staff. Relationships with customers, peers and influenc… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/austin-tech-connect/episodes/spheres-of-influence-with-brad-englert/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect/spheres-of-influence-with-brad-englert.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.