CEO Spotlight

Deloitte recently released its Summer 2022 Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey, which included 115 leaders across 15 industries who responded to a wide range of challenges as a result of the myriad crises we as a global community are facing. And there are many. Top concerns include finding talent, dealing with the...

Plaintree Systems Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer David Watson has a passion for classic cars and playing the long game.  In 2013, a midcentury-inspired Northstar refrigerator from appliance manufacturer Elmira Stove Works caught the eye of Watson, a longtime vintage car enthusiast. That encounter gave Watson, who is always on the...

Kelly Kubicek loves a challenge. Whether she’s streamlining government payroll systems or putting the ‘human’ back in human relations for multinational corporations, her ‘get it done without being a jerk’ mentality has won her legions of returning clients and top-notch recommendations.  The founder of Fulcrum HR Consulting has saved the...

So, do we really hate each other? Okay, hate is a strong word, but why aren’t we always supportive of our colleague's success? Especially the ones who are similar to us? I’m not sure if you can relate, but using women as the example (since this is my experience), I...

Social entrepreneurship can offer solutions to many social problems or at least limit them. Food On is a Non-Governmental Organization with the vision to help unemployed, socially, and occupationally excluded individuals, as well as people who currently live in destitution, get their lives back and make it easier for them...

With a lack of CX knowledge, board members will be unable to embrace the next wave of business that is the digitized, experience-led economy. Along the way, will come misguided investments and a push for solutions based on misinformed knowledge of customers.  Stanley H. Huang is the chief technology officer...

According to Ronn Torossian, to get the most out of video marketing, companies have to know which platform they need to utilize to distribute their video content. However, with most platforms starting to pivot toward video content these days, it's not always easy for companies to figure out which platform...

In an interview with Adam Bryant, Richelieu Dennis, founder of the Sundial Brands beauty products company, discusses building a business vs. a career. Dennis has applied his entrepreneur skills and a few lessons from his family to build up a multi-billion dollar personal care enterprise. Richelieu Dennis Background Richelieu Dennis...

Do women love flowers? Of course, they do. Maybe the famous actress Drew Barrymore, when planning to start her own business, thought just like this. Women love flowers. So, she decided to name her two new brands, Flower Beauty and Flower Home. Drew Barrymore has many years in the beauty...

The current leadership approach is to make managing teams as effortless as possible. But in doing that, you create an organization of less engaged team members that feel even less ownership towards the organization and less connection to their co-workers. Investing effort in a relationship When people aren’t engaged in...