Chris Power is an IT leader with over 25 years of experience across infrastructure, application delivery, and enterprise systems, with the last five years focused on Identity and Access Management. He currently serves as Senior Manager of IAM Operations at Sallie Mae, where he leads teams responsible for delivering and governing workforce identity services in a highly regulated financial environment.
 
Chris focuses on building IAM programs that work at scale—balancing control, usability, and operational sustainability. His leadership perspective centers on daily workforce provisioning, access governance, and the automation required to support growing organizations without increasing risk or operational drag. He is particularly interested in how clear ownership, decision rights, and accountability models shape successful IAM outcomes.
 
He writes and speaks from the perspective of a leader who has spent decades running systems and teams, and now applies those lessons to building resilient, auditable, and people-centered identity operations.