"Speed, agility, and talent management are the critical success factors in today’s world. As a leader, your most important role is to identify and remove barriers that slow decision making, stand in the way of change, or stop your teams from delivering business value."

-- Miriam McLemore

Miriam McLemore, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Getting to know

Miriam McLemore, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Miriam's experience and AWS goals

In business and technology leadership positions throughout her 25-year career with The Coca-Cola Company, and now at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Miriam has consistently driven high impact global enterprise technology strategy, digital transformation, and data analytics to understand and engage the consumer, provide competitive advantage, and improve internal system efficiencies. In diverse roles at Coca-Cola, she led top-tier strategy and development teams across 30 major global markets; identified and built mutually productive technology partnerships with external companies including Adobe, AWS, Facebook, Google, Box and VCs; delivered platforms from incubator and VC backed startups to large global business solutions; and led portfolio reviews, M&A due diligence/integration, and significant investment decisions. As an AWS Enterprise Strategist and Evangelist, her mission is to make the case to senior leadership teams, board members, and regulators that transitioning to the cloud, and specifically AWS, is a sound, secure, fiduciary-based strategy to positively transform their business with high shareholder ROI.

Miriam's expertise

As Miriam observed during her tenure at Coca-Cola, the challenge of a CIO is to articulate a digital strategy that enables business outcomes critical to the enterprise and empower the IT and business teams to deliver technology solutions in an agile manner. It’s not just that the right technology has to be in place—the organization needs to be ready to leverage it in the right way to realize its full value. Having worked at a firm steeped in more than 100 years of history, she knows firsthand that it can be challenging to drive change in a large multi-national corporation.

For Miriam, change is about using technology to create more agile ways of working, and space to react quickly to new market opportunities or demands. It’s about closely examining your people and culture and removing barriers to their innovation. It’s about adopting more digital processes and experiences, yet ensuring security is job one.

Miriam's AWS activities

At AWS, Miriam talks to hundreds of enterprise customers about strategies that can lower the price of entry to change—making digital transformation through cloud more accessible, yet still able to deliver a faster pace of innovation than previously possible. A frequent speaker, you can catch Miriam speaking at AWS events around the world and connecting with customers as part of the AWS Conversations with Leaders series.

Miriam's mentoring

When not speaking with customers, she’s inspiring young women pursuing careers in technology at events such as Women in Big Data and Women in Technology. Miriam is passionate about supporting women in building their career path, STEM programs for young people, and diversity and inclusion programs in the technology industry.

Miriam's career

  • Corporate CIO, The Coca-Cola Company
  • Director, Marketing Research, The Coca-Cola Company
  • Manager, Global Finance, The Coca-Cola Company
  • Manager, Arthur Andersen & Co., Andersen Consulting
  • BS, Business Administration, University of North Carolina
  • Advisory Board Member, Georgia Southern University
  • Community Leader, TechBridge
  • Executive Council Member (former), Georgia CIO Council
  • Advisor, Atlanta Bridge Community Startup Incubator
  • Mentoring women
  • STEM programs for young people
  • Diversity and inclusion in technology

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    Leading with Humanity

    A conversation with Amazon Board Member Edith Cooper

    Edith Cooper, Amazon Board Member and former Goldman Sachs CHRO, discusses leadership, organizational culture, and human connection in the modern workplace. Cooper shares insights from her experiences at Goldman Sachs and as co-founder of Medley, a coaching organization. She emphasizes the importance of maintaining customer centricity, fostering authentic human connections, and leveraging data and technology while preserving human expertise.

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    Modernizing Public Media for the Streaming Age at PBS

    Featuring Ira Rubenstein, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, PBS

    In this Executive Insights conversation, Ira Rubenstein, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at PBS, discusses the transformation of public media for the streaming age. Drawing from his 20+ years of experience championing digital innovation in Hollywood, Rubenstein details PBS's evolution into a sophisticated digital platform delivering 400 million streams monthly.

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    Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Cultivating Resilience Through Innovation

    Featuring AWS Enterprise Strategists Miriam McLemore, Chris Hennesey, and Clarke Rodgers

    The concept of 'business resilience' traditionally centers on an organization's capacity to handle failures and endure disruptions. However, truly resilient businesses go beyond mere response strategies; they proactively design and rigorously test plans to prevent such setbacks. In fact, the most resilient businesses don’t just withstand disruption, they create it. 

    In this discussion, AWS Enterprise Strategists Miriam McLemore, Chris Hennesey, and Clarke Rodgers will explore the notion of business resilience through the lens of a 'disruptor’s mindset.' They will highlight how embracing innovation not only fosters a competitive edge, but also propels the entire industry forward.

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    How Can I Shift to Become More Customer-Centric

    by Miriam McLemore, AWS Enterprise Strategist

    Miriam McLemore serves as a director of enterprise strategy at AWS and helps senior leadership teams use the cloud to positively transform their business and drive innovation. Prior to joining AWS, McLemore spent over 25 years at The Coca-Cola Company in business and technology leadership positions, where she led multiple digital transformation initiatives.

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    What Can Business Leaders do to Foster a Data-Driven Culture at Scale, Without Leaving Anyone Behind?

    by Miriam McLemore, AWS Enterprise Strategist

    Miriam McLemore serves as a director of enterprise strategy at AWS and helps senior leadership teams use the cloud to positively transform their business and drive innovation. Prior to joining AWS, McLemore spent over 25 years at The Coca-Cola Company in business and technology leadership positions, where she led multiple digital transformation initiatives.

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    Creating Remarkable Customer Experiences: Priorities, Experimentation, and Inclusion

    by Miriam McLemore, Enterprise Strategist, AWS

    One of the things that I enjoy most about Amazon’s culture is that Customer Obsession is our first leadership principle. I was a customer for 26 years in my various roles at The Coca-Cola Company and benefited from Amazon’s customer obsession. What I found is this often comes down to creating, and constantly making better, great customer experiences. Cloud technology can massively shorten the time it takes to deliver innovative experiences with lower total costs, and AWS customers like GoDaddy and Anthem are doing this on a daily basis. Even so, delivering great experiences isn’t always easy—it requires balancing business priorities, creating internal mechanisms to inspire experimentation, and teams that embrace diverse thinking. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with two Chief Technology Officers—Charles Beadnall from GoDaddy and Ed Smith of Anthem—for our Conversations with Leaders series on AWS Executive Insights, to hear their insights about the benefits of cloud.

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