Today's Leadership Pulse
Adobe eyes new CEO to steer AI‑driven future as shares tumble
Adobe is preparing to replace long‑time CEO Shantanu Narayen after nearly two decades at the helm. Analysts expect an internal promotion, with David Wadhwani or Anil Chakravarthy as frontrunners, as the company seeks to embed generative AI across Creative Cloud, Photoshop and Acrobat amid a >30% share decline this year.
Victorian Plumbing Announces CEO Succession and New Executive Incentive Scheme
Victorian Plumbing announced that group managing director Stephnie Judge has succeeded founder Mark Radcliffe as chief executive and joined the board. Radcliffe will remain involved as a non‑executive founder director and major shareholder. The company also unveiled a four‑year value‑creation incentive plan that rewards executives if the share price exceeds £2.25 ($2.86) and £2.50 ($3.18), delivering 5% and 10% of excess value respectively. The move follows a recent earnings release showing revenue and profit growth driven by a record 1.1 million orders.
210. Jens Levin, Founder & CEO of Sitoo - No Overnight Success: 22 Years of Focus, Teamwork, and Playing the...
In this episode, Jens Levin, founder and CEO of Cito, shares the 22‑year journey of building a SaaS platform that powers the in‑store experience for non‑food retailers across Europe and beyond. After a decade of experimentation, Cito pivoted in 2015...
Tech Leads Are Overwhelmed. Here’s How to Take Back Control
Tech leads often feel swamped by competing priorities, from feature estimates to bug triage and cross‑functional requests. The article outlines a practical framework: log every request, triage daily by importance, delegability, and alignment with six‑month goals, and protect dedicated coding...
Nancy Roos Joins the Executive Board of General Reinsurance AG
Nancy Roos has been appointed to the Executive Board of General Reinsurance AG, effective April 1, 2026, while retaining her role as CFO. She succeeds retiring board member Mike O’Dea and brings more than two decades of experience at Gen Re, including...
The Job That Broke Gucci Also Built Hermès
The creative director has become the engine of profit for luxury houses, a role exemplified by Tom Ford’s 1994 turnaround of Gucci from a $22 million loss to $3 billion in revenue. Recent industry data from Bernstein treats runway debuts like earnings...
Nokia Strengthens MEA Leadership to Accelerate Network Evolution and Growth
Nokia announced three senior appointments for its Middle East and Africa (MEA) operations, naming Mikko Lavanti as President, Roque Lozano Barbero as Senior Vice President of Network Infrastructure, and Danial Mausoof as Senior Vice President of Mobile Infrastructure. The new...
🧠 How to Build a Bias-Proof Decision System
The article outlines a framework for constructing bias‑proof decision systems that can sustain consistent, high‑stakes choices. It emphasizes a layered architecture that starts with clean, validated data and proceeds through objective scoring, transparent criteria, and continuous feedback loops. The author...
Marcie Frost, CalPERS: Women in Private Equity 2026
Marcie Frost, who rose from teenage mother and typist to CEO of CalPERS, is featured in the 2026 Women in Private Equity series. Her story underscores how non‑traditional career paths can lead to leadership in the world’s largest public pension...
Episode 85: Josh Brier & Aldo Tarantini
In this episode, COO Josh Breyer of Connecticut Wealth Management and Managing Director Aldo Tarantini of Family Management Corp discuss how operational strategy, technology, and a client‑first culture drive growth in independent wealth‑management firms. They share the firms’ histories—Family Management’s...
How to Build Your Emotional Intelligence - Pippa Topp (CPO, Giffgaff)
In this episode, Chief Product Officer Pippa Topp of giffgaff explains emotional intelligence (EI) as the ability to recognize and regulate one’s own feelings and understand others’ responses, especially within product teams. She highlights common EI pitfalls like defensiveness in...
Why William Woods Turned to a Proven K12 Veteran for Its Next Chapter
Sarah Wisdom, a four‑time alumna and former superintendent of the New Bloomfield School District, will become president of William Woods University in Missouri this summer. Her two‑decade K‑12 leadership gives her deep insight into the regional student pipeline and operational...
Banking On Silence: Can Credibility Cushion the Silence of HDFC Bank?
HDFC Bank’s part‑time chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigned abruptly, citing vague “values and ethics” misalignment, sparking immediate governance concerns. Within a day, the Reserve Bank of India installed veteran Keki Mistry as interim non‑executive chairman and affirmed the bank’s financial soundness....
The Leadership Difference Nobody Puts in the Job Description
The article explains why some leaders are both liked and respected while others generate tension and disengagement. It argues that true leadership effectiveness comes from blending warmth with clear standards, not from charisma or intimidation. Leaders who combine emotional self‑control...
Chiron Group Appoints New CEO
Chiron Group SE announced Roman Gaida as its new chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2026, with the added responsibility of leading global sales. Gaida brings extensive experience from roles at Wieland, OC Oerlikon Balzers, Mitsubishi Electric and most recently as chief sales officer at...
Sheryl Sandberg Tapped a 25-Year-Old to Run Lean In. Here’s Her Plan to Close the AI Gender Gap
Sheryl Sandberg announced that 25‑year‑old former Meta product manager Bridget Griswold will lead Lean In as its new CEO, steering the nonprofit toward closing the AI gender gap. A Lean In survey of 1,000 U.S. adults found 33% of men...
Heinemann Promotes Rajshree Dugar To CEO Of Asia-Pacific Unit
Gebr. Heinemann promoted its Asia‑Pacific CFO, Rajshree Dugar, to CEO effective 1 September, replacing Johannes Sammann who moves to a global people‑and‑culture role. The change comes amid a restructuring prompted by a sustained drop in Chinese traveler spending, which has reshaped the...
Consistency, Not Breakthroughs, Drives Big Results
We overestimate breakthrough moments and underestimate accumulation. Large outcomes are rarely the result of a single decisive act, they are the residue of repeated, small, directional actions. The discipline is not ambition; it’s consistency at a granular level. Strategy fails...
Maple Leafs Dismiss GM Brad Treliving Amid Season Collapse
The Toronto Maple Leafs terminated general manager Brad Treliving on Monday, citing a disappointing 2025‑26 campaign that saw the club tumble from Atlantic Division leaders to the brink of playoff elimination. Owner Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) has launched...
US Credit Union First Tech Hires Federal Reserve Bank of Boston GC as First CLO
First Technology Federal Credit Union announced the hiring of Steven Wright as its inaugural chief legal officer. Wright joins from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he was general counsel and chief ethics officer, bringing extensive regulatory and law‑firm...
Gap Between Leaders' Intentions and Impact Undermines Culture
Leadership strategist Preetie Boler warns that many managers confuse good intentions with effective outcomes, creating a hidden "invisible gap" between what they aim to do and how employees experience it. The gap manifests when defensive tones undermine feedback, a lack...
M25 Global Producers Series: Prodigious Bangkok’s Jeffrey Chow on a Non-Linear Path to Leadership
In episode 4 of the m25 Global Producers Series, Prodigious Bangkok Managing Director Jeffrey Chow outlines his non‑linear journey from motion‑control cameraman to chief growth officer and now producer leader. He argues that modern producers must translate ambition into executable, scalable...
AI Flattens Hierarchies, Eliminating Traditional Middle Management
Jack Dorsey argues that AI enables companies to eliminate layers of middle management as they only exist to pass information back and forth upper levels to frontline workers. Basically AI has access to all of the data and communications at the...
Former Colenso BBDO Managing Partner Lucy Cole Joins Goldilocks as General Manager
Goldilocks has hired former Colenso BBDO Managing Partner Lucy Cole as its General Manager, marking the first senior appointment for the agency model built to serve Westpac New Zealand. Cole brings over a decade of senior agency experience, including leadership roles at...
Perenti Appoints Vanessa Torres as New CEO
Perenti Limited announced Dr. Vanessa Torres as its next managing director and chief executive officer, succeeding Mark Norwell. Torres arrives from South32, where she most recently served as chief operating officer, and brings over 25 years of global resources experience,...
Founders Must Lead With Unique Vision, Not Replicate Context
Your team will never have the full context that you have as the founder. And that’s not a knock on them, it’s just the reality of leadership. Your job is to trust your instincts and lead them in the direction...
Jimini Health Raises $17 Million to Expand AI‑Driven Mental‑Health Chatbot
Jimini Health announced a $17 million seed round to accelerate its AI‑driven mental‑health chatbot, Sage. Backed by investors such as M13 and Town Hall Ventures, the funding will help the startup embed clinician‑supervised AI into large behavioral‑health systems, signaling a new...
Sequoia Appoints Veteran Doug Leone as Chairman, Returns to Deals
Renewed economy begs renewed focus: @Sequoia Capital Names Former Leader Leone as Chairman. Sequoia Capital on Tuesday named Doug Leone, an investor who has been at the firm since 1988, as chairman. After stepping back from making new investments in...
Brunico Communications to End NATPE, Kidscreen and Realscreen Summits by 2027
Brunico Communications announced it will discontinue its U.S. television‑industry conventions—including NAT PE, Kidscreen and Realscreen summits—by 2027. The decision, driven by shrinking content budgets and ongoing consolidation, shifts the company’s focus to its trade publications and the Banff World Media Festival.
Executives Make Workplace Culture a Strategic Priority, Driving HRTech Growth
Across industries, CEOs are shifting workplace culture, employee engagement and recognition from peripheral HR concerns to strategic imperatives. New data shows strong cultures lift efficiency by up to 20% and cut turnover costs by 40%, prompting a surge in demand...
CEOs Navigate AI Disruption with Strategic Adaptation
CEO themes and insights how does a CEO respond to AI business disruption? by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/LanW9VTJdY @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #MarketingStrategy https://t.co/30pgUZoM28
IAG Restructures Marketing Leadership, Putting Four Senior Roles Under Review
IAG has launched a review of its marketing leadership less than six months after naming Emily Roberts as chief customer and marketing officer. The company plans to merge four senior executive‑manager roles into three, requiring the incumbents to reapply for...
Q&A: Meet UniSQ’s New VC Paul Mazerolle
Professor Paul Mazerolle, a Canadian‑born criminologist, began his tenure as vice‑chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) after leading the University of New Brunswick for seven years. He inherits a campus that has cut more than 250 jobs and...
Organizing for the AI Era: Enterprise AI Organizational Design Framework
The "Organizing for the AI Era" framework offers enterprises a structured blueprint to redesign authority, accountability, and operating models as AI becomes a core capability. It moves beyond literacy and policy, delivering concrete artifacts such as an AI Operating Model...
Leadership Orchestration
The article argues that leadership is moving from a traditional command‑and‑control model to an "Age of Orchestration," where leaders act as ecosystem architects rather than hierarchical managers. In this digital era, systemic wisdom, AI ethics, and a "subtractive" focus on...
Team Grit Turns Vision Into Shipping Reality
I went out for drinks with some engineers in the fall. I got really excited about an idea. Like REALLY excited about it. They also seemed pretty excited. I said, "we should just build this. Screw priorities, this is magic."...
The Policy System Needs More Social Science
The UK government announced a new “school of government” to boost senior civil servants’ skills, explicitly incorporating social science alongside leadership, AI, and economics. The initiative follows the Academy of Social Sciences’ report urging stronger social‑science evidence in Whitehall, noting...
Moving Goalposts: Why Bad Bosses Stifle Success
A bad boss will keep moving the goalpost, then wonder why no one feels successful.
Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’
OpenAI has appointed Fidji Simo as "CEO of Applications," giving her autonomy over roughly two‑thirds of the company. She reports directly to Sam Altman and makes final calls when he defers, shaping product strategy and commercialization. As OpenAI eyes a...
Cross-Generation Collaboration: The Key to In-House Legal Tech Adoption
In‑house legal departments are at a tipping point as generative AI matures, forcing leaders to rethink how multigenerational teams adopt new tools. James Lewindon argues that blending the tech‑savvy of younger lawyers with the experience of senior counsel creates a...
PVH’s Step-by-Step Approach Tops Q4 Earnings Expectations
PVH Corp. posted a strong fourth‑quarter finish, delivering adjusted earnings per share of $3.82 and an adjusted operating margin of 11.7 percent, both well above analyst expectations. Revenue rose 6 percent to $2.5 billion, while the company’s direct‑to‑consumer share grew to 50 percent of...
Pichai: AI Central to Google, Not a Moonshot
this was such a riveting read. If you're a Google shareholder, nobody came across better than Sundar Pichai in this entire saga. The fact that so many of them wanted Pichai to resign is a good reminder how clueless outsiders...
Beyond the First Choice: Later Effects Matter More
the second and third order effects of decisions are often more important than the initial decision itself
A $1B Campus, Leadership Handoff and Unchanged Mission: Grady’s Next Chapter
Grady Health System announced that President and CEO John Haupert will retire at the end of 2026 after a 35‑year healthcare career, with COO Anthony Saul slated to assume the role on Jan. 1, 2027. The transition coincides with a $1 billion...
Five Strategies for Leaders to Combat Healthcare Burnout
Five ways future health care leaders can tackle burnout in the workforce https://t.co/Fxd56CgOJE via @medical_xpress #burnout #MedTwitter #health #Wellbeing #healthcare
Advocating for Team Growth Fuels My Biotech Fulfillment
Managing people in biotech has been such a rewarding experience, but mostly taught me how much I value advocating for the people I manage. I love helping folks realize their potential and its been such wildly fulfilling watching my munchkins...
ACI-NA’s Burke To Retire By Year End
Kevin Burke, president and CEO of Airports Council International‑North America (ACI‑NA), will retire later in 2026 after more than a decade at the helm. During his tenure, ACI‑NA secured roughly $20 billion in federal pandemic relief and another $20 billion for major...
15 Essential Speaking Lessons From MIT’s Patrick Winston
MIT professor Patrick Winston delivers a masterclass on “how to speak” - 15 lessons https://t.co/KKfLMl8PZ6
No Change Management = Project Failure and Employee Resistance
A complete lack of change management doomed this project. Generic emails and training aren't enough. Without stakeholder engagement and tailored support, employees were unprepared and confused, leading to resistance. #ChangeManagement #ProjectFailure https://t.co/1iL9DIm3O5
How Fortune 500 CEOs Turn Personal Purpose Into Strategic Advantage
Fortune 500 CEOs are treating purpose as a core operating system, integrating personal values into daily strategic decisions. Studies show purpose‑aligned firms achieve roughly 25% higher revenue growth and 22% higher pre‑tax profit. Boards now ask CEOs what they stand for,...
ARC Raiders Head Joins Nexon, Promises Cheaper Game Development
ARC Raiders leader is now chairman of Nexon. Says there is a path to better game development and lower costs. https://t.co/Xobt1OmrGk