About
Jerri Bland, Ed.D.
Advisor. Author. Founder. Based in North Carolina.
Biography
Jerri Bland, Ed.D. is an institutional technology leader, author, and founder with more than twenty-five years of enterprise IT experience at the highest levels. She holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration and has held senior technology leadership roles at Columbia University, where she served as Deputy CIO, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she led Enterprise Applications — a portfolio that included the institution's $60 million administrative-systems transformation.
She is a technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of CIO Advisra and J. Lynne & Co. Through CIO Advisra, a digital subscription advisory service, and J. Lynne & Co., her boutique advisory firm, she works with complex, mission-driven institutions as fractional CIO, transformation leader, and expert witness. Beyond her advisory practice, she has founded and built a portfolio of software solutions that address persistent problems across the institutions she serves.
Her forthcoming book, The Transformidable Leader: The Leader the Moment Needs, publishes July 2026 and articulates a framework for the leaders who close the gap between vision and outcome. She hosts the Transformidable Thinking podcast and writes regularly at Transformidable.media on institutional IT, transformation, and women in technology leadership.
She is PMP, CSM, and Six Sigma certified, serves on boards in higher education and the nonprofit sector, and lives in North Carolina.
The Work I've Built
My work is organized across three areas: an engagement-based advisory practice, a portfolio of platforms and community work serving institutional IT and the people inside it, and a publication and book under the Transformidable brand.
Each piece exists for a reason I can name, and each one connects to the others — the advisory practice surfaces problems, the publication thinks them through in public, and the platforms ship the answer at scale.
Credentials & Certifications
- Ed.D., Higher Education Administration
- M.A., Educational Leadership
- B.S., Business Administration
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Six Sigma certified
- WBENC-certified women-owned business
- SBA 8(a) program participant
Publications & Recognition
- Durham County Workforce Development Board (Appointee, exp. 2029)
- The Transformidable Leader: The Leader the Moment Needs (Book, 2026)
Contact
Three separate paths. Pick the one that matches your reason for getting in touch.
Engagement
Fractional CIO, transformation oversight, expert witness, PMO Command, or Vendor Detox.
Go to Work With Me →Speaking
Conferences, keynotes, panels, podcast guesting.
Go to Speaking →Press
Interviews, quotes, and editorial inquiries. Use the form below.
Press inquiry
Outlet, deadline, and the angle you're working. I'll come back with availability and a starting point.