Ted Schadler serves technology executives — CIOs, CTOs, and their leadership teams — building high-performance IT strategies that bring the full value of technology to business. Ted has worked at Forrester for over 25 years leading at the forefront of major technology and service models shifts, including the Internet, cloud, mobile, and now generative AI. In all these areas and more, Ted analyzes the impact of technologies on people and businesses.

As part of the Technology Executive research and guidance team, Ted focuses on helping leaders build high-performance IT strategies, maximize the value of partners, and establish strategies to harness the full potential of AI on IT and on business. He evaluates AI consulting service providers and analyzes trends shaping the future of technology and consulting service providers.

In 1999, Ted launched Forrester’s TechRankings™ product, now the Forrester Wave™. In 2003, Ted became a Forrester Bill Bluestein award winner, the award granted annually to a Forrester distinguished analyst.

Ted is the coauthor of two books: Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, September 2010) and The Mobile Mind Shift: Engineer Your Business to Win in the Mobile Moment (Groundswell Press, June 2014).