Technology STRATEGY.
Clear DECISIONS.
Meaningful PROGRESS.
TECHNOLOGY LEADER | ADVISOR | SPEAKER
Tyanna Smith helps leaders make smart technology decisions, tie them to what the business actually needs, and turn plans into progress people can see.
Where BUSINESS Meets Technology
Tyanna works where business goals, technical realities, and people meet. Leaders bring her in when the stakes are real and the path isn’t obvious: a transformation that has lost momentum, a risk conversation the board can’t act on, or a strategy that hasn’t yet turned into action.
She helps executives and technical teams understand each other, weigh the real tradeoffs, and keep the work moving until it delivers. For more than a decade, she has done this across consulting, technology, financial services, and government, in both commercial and public-sector organizations.
Where She Makes a DIFFERENCE
Technology strategy that serves the business. Aligning technology investments with business priorities, and building the governance and executive reporting that keep them on track.
Risk information leaders can use. Translating cyber and technology risk into business terms, so executives and boards can decide where to invest.
Transformation that sticks. Moving large, cross-functional change from plan to execution, with clear ownership along the way.
Resilience where it matters most. Strengthening critical infrastructure and public-sector programs where reliability isn’t optional.
Experience includes RiskLens, Datto, Northwestern Mutual, and Idaho National Laboratory.
Leadership & Advisory
Technology strategy, transformation, and risk-informed decisions, as an executive, fractional leader, or advisor. A former board member of the Society of Information Risk Analysts, Tyanna is open to new board roles.
Speaking & Conversations
Practical talks on technology leadership, decision-making, organizational change, and risk. Past stages include FAIRcon and the American Bar Association.
Podcast Launching Soon!
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INSIDE
At What Cost
At What Cost is Tyanna’s podcast in development: conversations with leaders, builders, and operators about the tradeoffs behind ambition, including how success is built, what it asks of people, and how identity changes along the way.
The first episodes are in the works. In the meantime, Tyanna writes about technology, leadership, ambition, and identity.
How She LEADS
Technology decisions should serve a clear business purpose.
Good risk information helps people decide.
Change lasts when the people doing the work own it.
Let’s TALK
Have a technology challenge, a leadership need, or a conversation in mind? Tyanna welcomes inquiries about advisory and fractional leadership, board service, and speaking.