I went outside of my comfort zone in this second book, and it's been a three‐year‐long journey. A very special thanks to Ginny Hamilton, the “Chief Feedback Officer,” editor, reader advocate, and inspiration over the last six weeks of finalizing the book. With her guidance, ten chapters of stories and lessons were transformed into the book you have today, and I hope you enjoyed and walked away with many lessons learned. Thank you, Ginny!

I want to thank the full cast of characters in Digital Trailblazer, including Adam, Alexandra, Alice, Bart, Bill, Blake, Boswell, Brian, Catherine, Charles, Clark, Craig, Daniel, Delores, Donna, Donovan, Elanor, Gracie, Henry, Hesam, Ilan, Jasper, Jerry, Johnathan, Jonah, Josh, Karina, Ken, Nagesh, Leo, Matt, Michele, Matthew, Niles, Pavel, Patrick, Phil, Pietra, Pranav, Ronan, Theresa, Warren, Wes, and Yasmine. Also thanks to many others whom I reference in the book without naming.

Thank you to everyone who contributed endorsements and quotes in the book: Ross Abbott, Kirk Borne, Jason T Burns, Martin Davis, Jonathan Feldman, Jay Ferro, Paige Francis, Angelic Gibson, Jason “JJ” James, Philippe Johnston, Anthony Juliano, Adriana Karaboutis, Helen Wetherley Knight, Eric Knorr, Shelly Kramer, Michael Krigsman, Larry Lieberman, Jo Peterson, Dan Roberts, Kathleen Greenler Sexton, Myles Suer, Kim Wales, R “Ray” Wang, and Robin Yeman.

A big thanks to several people who reviewed early versions of the book's chapters, including Michelle Fagan, Deb Gildersleeve, Roger Neal, Wendi White, and Joanna Young. Specials thanks to Sheck Cho, Leslye Davidson, Dan Roberts. Thank you to everyone at Wiley who worked on Digital Trailblazer.

I've had a great team of people to collaborate and grow with at StarCIO and want to thank Jay Cohen, Ginny Hamilton, David Morgen, Mitch Schussler Anshul Goyal, Sandy McCarron, and Liz Martinez. A very special thanks to StarCIO partners, customers, and supporters. Thank you to my friends at CIO.com, #CIOChat, Foundry, #IDGTechTalk, InfoWorld, SINC USA, nGage, CXOTalk, TechTarget, The Enterpriser's Project, DevOps.com, and Leadtail.

Thank you to all my mentors, including Adriaan Bouten, Linda Brennan, Brendan Burns, Jason T Burns, Bill Castagne, Jay Cohen, Keith Fox, Ginny Hamilton, Carter Hostelley, Sandra McCarron, Dean Kelly, Larry Lieberman, Alexa McCloughan, Mariella Montoni, and Roger Neal. Thank you to my health coaches, Brian Hollander and Nancy Regan, and to my pandemic support group, Helen Wetherley Knight and Jonathan Landon,

Most important, I also want to thank my family trailblazers: Michele, Ronan, Pietra, Jasper, Mom, Dad, Pam, Frank, Danny, Lisa, Allison, Langdon, Matthew, Brendan, Ilana, Jonathan, and Nova.