Forget compliance checklists.

Today’s competitive advantage lies in understanding your tech function’s real health - and making it visible across the business.In this episode of Transformation 2.0®, we sit down with Dane Eldridge and Andy Graham, co-founders of StackUp, a platform that’s redefining how technology leaders assess and elevate their teams.

Dan and Andy reveal why traditional assessments fall short, the dangers of assumption-based leadership, and how objective benchmarking can unlock sharper strategy, faster execution, and smarter investments.

If you’re a CIO, CTO, or transformation leader tired of slow discovery and vague roadmaps, this episode will change how you see tech diagnostics forever.

Key Takeaways:

✅ Compliance doesn’t equal capability, stop mistaking ISO badges for tech maturity

✅ The best decisions start with shared language and objective insight

✅ Tech strategy is a communication game; leaders must translate impact, not jargon

✅ Transformation starts when tech gets honest, and the business gets curious

Resources & Links:

🔗 Learn more about Stackup: https://www.stackup.tech/ 🔗 Explore Anthosa’s Strategy Accelerators: https://www.anthosa.com

About Our Guests:

Andy Graham is a seasoned CIO/CTO with 30 years of experience across financial services and automotive. As the former tech leader at SG Fleet, Andy led audits, M&A due diligence, and compliance, but saw the gap in measuring true operational excellence. His frameworks formed the foundation for StackUp.

Dane Eldridge spent two decades running a software agency, collaborating with startups and corporates alike. Frustrated by the lack of visibility into tech leadership effectiveness, Dan co-founded StackUp to bring objectivity, speed, and consistency to tech diagnostics.

How do you drive innovation inside one of the most regulated, complex industries in the world?

In this episode of Transformation 2.0®, we sit down with Stephen Ranjan - Global Head of Digital Health at Roche - to explore how the pharmaceutical industry is embracing (and resisting) change, why strategic partnerships matter more than ever, and how leaders can build learning cultures that enable real transformation.

From accelerating R&D with AI, to navigating compliance and risk, to scaling ideas beyond pilot purgatory - this conversation unpacks the human and organisational shifts required to make innovation work in practice, not just theory.

If you work in pharma, healthcare, or any highly regulated sector, this episode offers practical insight into how transformation actually happens - and why people, not platforms, are the key to change.

Key Takeaways:

✅ Innovation in pharma must balance risk, compliance and experimentation

✅ Strategic partnerships can de-risk innovation and accelerate learning

✅ Pilots fail when they don’t have a landing zone in the core business

✅ Culture change begins with curiosity, not control

✅ Compliance shouldn’t kill innovation – it should guide responsible progress

✅ Organisational friction is inevitable; leaders must actively manage it

Resources & Links:

🔗 Learn more about the work we do at Anthosa: https://www.anthosa.com

🔗 Connect with Stephen Ranjan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenranjan/

About Our Guest:

Stephen Ranjan is a collaborative healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams and delivering digital innovation across global markets. Currently serving as Global Head of Digital Health at Roche, he has held senior roles at Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Epic, and sits on multiple advisory boards.Stephen’s leadership combines strategic vision with a deep commitment to people development, making him a trusted voice in the evolving world of pharma innovation.

How do we lead real transformation, the kind that sticks, in organisations wired for comfort?

In this special episode of Transformation 2.0®, we welcome strategy and transformation expert Taural Rhoden as a regular co-host. Together, Chamara and Taural dive into the uncomfortable realities of change, why organisations resist it, how leaders can navigate it, and why individual growth is the real engine of business transformation.

From the boardroom to the front line, transformation isn’t just about new systems or strategies - it’s about helping people make sense of uncertainty and take action when the future feels unclear.

If you’re a change leader, transformation consultant, or executive navigating complexity, this episode will give you frameworks, language, and inspiration to lead with more clarity and confidence.

Key Takeaways:

✅ Real transformation requires people to get uncomfortable and stay there

✅ Change fails when we treat it as a tech project instead of a people challenge

✅ Organisational homeostasis is real: success depends on disrupting the status quo

✅ Courageous leadership isn’t about rank - it’s about conviction

✅ The best change agents use experiments, not overhauls, to learn and scale

✅ Resistance is insight in disguise; treat it as information, not defiance

✅ A learning mindset will be the #1 skill for future-fit leaders

Resources & Links:

🔗 Learn more about the work we do at Anthosa: https://www.anthosa.com

🔗 Connect with Taural Rhoden on LinkedIn

About Our Co-Host:

Taural Rhoden is the Principal of Rhoden Consulting, where he helps experts think commercially and build resilient, profitable service businesses. Over the last 20 years, Taural has worked across the sharp end of international consulting, advisory, and transformation, holding leadership roles at IBM, DXC, Mercedes-Benz, and the US Army.

He’s built independent businesses, returned to corporate leadership, and led high-impact digital transformations across industries. Today, he helps solopreneurs and small consultancies craft premium offers, build scalable delivery models, grow authority, and create sustainable revenue without burnout.

His mission:Equip experts to think commercially - so they can act with clarity, grow with confidence, and build businesses that last.

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