Forbes November 3, 2021
Martin Giles

When she was 11 years old, Angela Yochem’s father taught her to write code and play the saxophone. She took to both, but at college she ended up selecting the sax over software, pursuing an undergraduate degree in music. The choice was easy, recalled Yochem: “No one stood up and clapped when I wrote code.”

The hiatus with software didn’t last long. After graduating, Yochem decided to take coding classes in night school and they started her on a career journey that’s led to her current role at North Carolina-based Novant Health, one of the U.S.’s biggest regional health groups with 37,000 employees and 2020 revenue of $5.7 billion. As chief transformation and digital officer of the nonprofit, which operates...

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