CEO Agenda

On occasion, CEOs will tell me that they were once part of a CEO peer advisory group or forum and eventually quit because they were not receiving any value. To be fair, it may not have been the right group for them, or maybe it was a group that was...

The pandemic continues to weigh on the US economy. However, with a recently-passed third-round stimulus, more vaccines being distributed and states beginning to reopen, we expect a significant economic rebound quicker than originally anticipated. We believe we will see meaningful economic pick-up start late in the first quarter and continue...

This month, we marked the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 global pandemic. And, as we continue to celebrate Women's History Month and the many achievements of women around the globe, it's all the more important to remember that, especially in 2020, those achievements came at a higher cost. Women at...

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life on a global scale, causing its own problems and exacerbating those that already existed. Citizens and their governments around the world are facing over-burdened health systems, alarming hospitalization and death rates, unemployment, disruption to education, loneliness, grief and anxiety, to name just a few...

We are losing the cybersecurity war, and it’s not because our equipment isn’t high-tech enough. The real reason is both simpler and more difficult to solve: our technical employees lack the people and leadership skills needed to communicate effectively. Technical teams often lack the inner confidence to innovate outside the...

Three personal stories. Three takeaways. Clarity To make a long (painful) story short, I typically ran the mile in junior high school. At the last meet of the year in 1975, however, I was asked to fill in as the third leg on our undefeated one-mile relay team.  No problem,...

Marking a new dawn for the United States, President Biden recently revoked the diversity training ban and replaced it with a new executive order on advancing equity for underserved communities. This comes as employment inequality for the underrepresented workforce spirals as a by-product of the pandemic. Women accounted for 100...

I recently heard of a male CEO approaching his female Director of Communications about their March publication to members. He wanted her to move the ‘International Women’s Day’ feature to the back of the magazine and profile some men in the front. Tone-deaf at best. Bias or sour grapes at...

A great deal has been written about growth mindset and how it applies to leadership. The theory, originated by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, argues that each and every one of us has the capacity to view the world as either limited or unlimited, closed or open or, in Dweck’s...

Stress has reached an all-time high – before the pandemic 80% of workers were experiencing stress, according to the American Institute of Stress. Now those numbers are even more staggering. From remote work causing undue stress for workers, especially those with school-aged children to the “on-call” nature of work, human...