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CEO Interviews - 2017
Ralph Sheridan
Global leadership: YPO
Gold
Former CEO, American Science & Engineering
Peter Hirst
Associate Dean,
Executive Education
MIT Sloan School of Management
The Challenge to Change as CEO
The
theme running through all of these topics: CEOs need to change skills sets
constantly. Staying ahead of your industry, changing your leadership style for
different situations, and continual learning fast are the norm. How do
you do maintenance on the plane (you) while it's mid-flight?
Larry
Weber
Chairman and Founder of Racepoint Global
Owner, W2 Group
Author
Future CEO: 5 Skills to Start Developing NOW
Larry
has predicted the future multiple times then created companies and books to
bring us there. What do you need now to be ready for your future as
CEO?
Read The most important skills of tomorrow, according to five global leaders
Todd Krasnow
Operating Partner, Highland Consumer Fund
Former CEO, Zoots
Founding team, Staples
Transitions: The 3 Major Changes of CEOs
"Graceful
transitions" as you become a CEO, leave being a CEO and retire are essential.
They determine your reputation and relationships.
Read CEO Transitions: The Science of Success on the McKinsey website.
Bruce
Walton
Partner Battalia Winston
+ other global firms
Being Found: How Search Firms Find CEOs
"Being
approached" by a search firm is more strategic than emailing them you're
available. How do these firms work? Can they be of help to the executive job
seeker?
Read How Search Firms Find Senior Executives.
John
Fletcher
Managing Partner
Fletcher Spaght Inc.
Accelerating Organic Growth
There are multiple ways
to grow your company within your current structure. The rewards are often
greater and lower risk than growing by acquisition.
Read Creating an Organic Growth Machine on the Harvard Business Review.
Pam Reeve
Board
member or chair: 3 public boards + private and non-profits.
Former CEO,
Lightbridge
Boards: Getting on the Right Ones,
Building Your Own
Is it time for you, as CEO, to be on a Board? If so, which one(s) and how?
Structuring your own Board wisely contributes to your success.
Look at Stairsteps for Building Board Experience.
Amy Lipton
CEO of Spitfire
Petite
Former Director, Global Marketing Digital Media, IBM
Dino Cattaneo
Founder and
Managing
Partner
Hoolibean Digital Marketing
Social Media for CEOs in 140 Characters
How does
social media fit in your corporate strategy and what are its risks and rewards
for you and your Board?
Read Even CEOs Need to Use Social Media on the Fast Company website.
Maria
Kussmaul
Co-Founder
Managing Partner
Head of IT security
sector
AGC Partners
The CEO's Role in Cyber Risks to the Enterprise
Maria
Kussmaul advises major corporations as well as countries, the military, and you
on best practices in the growing necessity of cyber risk management.
Read Are You Protecting Your Crown Jewels?.
Tom
Wilson
CEO
The Wilson Group
What are You Worth as CEO?
Tom works with boards and
top executives nationally to design total compensation plans starting from the
top, the CEO, and aligning compensation and reward programs with key drivers of
the business.
Read What's Your Market Value?
Dr. Richard
Eglen
GM/ VP
Corning Life Sciences
"Why Should Anyone be Led by You?"
Dr. Eglen's
oversight of 3000+ employees at Corning incorporates some of Goffee &
Jones's qualities for inspirational leaders + best practices he's shaped from
start ups to major corporations.
Rick
Burnes
Co-Founder, CEO, now Partner Emeritus
Charles River Ventures
10 Things CEOs Need to Know
Rick Burnes has
supervised some of the most successful CEOs in the US who started their
companies with CRV funding. What you don't know yet will soon change.
John
Humphrey
Chair/Principal
Humphrey Enterprises
CEO
Humphrey
Companies
Scaling Your Company from an Idea to a Global Enterprise
John Humphrey has co-founded seven organizations, taken 2 to global
prominence in different industries and had 3 acquired. When and how to scale
your company is the focus.
Dr. Vanu
Bose
CEO
Vanu, Inc.
Your 5 Step Plan to be CEO
Dr. Bose is connecting the
unconnected with broadband coverage around the globe. As the CEO for 20 years,
Dr. Bose shares ideas about how to become and remain a competitive leader.