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We Really Are Innovation Technology With Jennifer Terrill (48:27)

You've Been Heard, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026

Sperber Landscape CIO Jennifer Terrill on embedding IT in the business, AI prompt libraries, tokenomics and a 90-day plan for new CIOs.

Jennifer Terrill, CIO of Sperber Landscape Companies, which has about 3,500 employees nationwide, describes a career spanning fintech, banking, retail as CIO of True Religion, payments and a mortuary company she took from paper to digital.

She says her superpower is solving problems by embedding herself in the business, explains why field crews need technology that takes few clicks, and advises IT leaders to ask to sit in on meetings they are left out of.

On AI, she describes an experimental phase built on a prompt library and brain files and warns that costs are shifting from SaaS subscriptions to tokens.

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