Joyce Hunter
Executive Director for Collaboration & Education, Mission Critical
Former Deputy CIO of Policy & Planning and Former Acting CIO, USDA
Joyce served as both the Deputy CIO of Policy & Planning and the Acting CIO of the US Department of Agriculture. She has also held other senior leadership roles within the federal government, Lotus Development Corp, Lawson Software, and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Prior to joining Mission Critical Leadership, Joyce served as the Executive Director for the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) from May 2020 – April 2024.
She has managed multi-billion dollar IT budgets and established or led several data governance and PMO initiatives. She understands how to communicate with and across diverse communities and how to forge relationships that enable those stakeholders to succeed. She regularly uses these skills in both her TEDx talks and publications.
Joyce has a BA from Villanova University and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. She holds certificates in Emotional Intelligence, Design Thinking, Technology Business Management (TBM) and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). She sits on multiple industry boards and is active in several philanthropies focused on advancing STEM and Data Science education for under-served and underrepresented youth.