ORBIE Leadership Award recipient and Publix CIO shares strategies for navigating change at scale

When Laurie Douglas started her career, her initial focus was on operations and finance. Yet, technology quickly became an integral part of her work. She dove into the field and has never looked back.

Today, Douglas is senior vice president, chief information officer and chief digital officer of Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc., one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains and the largest employee-owned company in the country. She joined the company in 2006 after serving as senior vice…