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Brent Lang and the art of taking the next lane
An unexpected relay assignment helped turn Brent Lang into an Olympic gold medalist. At Vocera, and now as USA Swimming’s board chair, he has kept finding reasons to give people room to surprise him.
Kent Davies and the work between the deals
From window films to boardrooms, Kent Davies has spent his career working on the practical side of growth. At ARCHIMED, the former company chief brings that experience to the relationship between owners and operators.
Sonia Millsom and the art of being next
A founder asked her to take his chair. Sonia Millsom brought a career of growth, a memorable setback, and a habit of asking other people what they knew.
Jack Industries asks the question your pitch deck dodges
Can someone else retell your idea? Rafferty Jackson’s advisory practice helps space and autonomy founders answer that question - then tackle the work of scaling the company behind it.
Karen Walker Johnson Learned to Listen at the Bedside. Now She Does It at Scale.
A pediatric nurse became a lawyer, an operator and, eventually, a chief executive. Across every reinvention, Karen Walker Johnson kept the same instrument close: the discipline of listening before designing the answer.
The Company That Answers Someone Else’s Phone
Ewald Consulting runs the unglamorous machinery behind dozens of associations. Its smartest move was not adding more people, but making one system carry more of the load.
Rob Kunzler Is Marketing the Room Where Decisions Become History
After two decades of selling complicated software in plain English, OnBoard's CMO has arrived at a harder brief: helping boards use technology without surrendering judgment.
Coco Brown
Coco Brown is the founder and CEO of Athena Alliance, a digital leadership platform that has placed nearly 600 women on corporate boards and helped thousands of executives build what she calls a Portfolio of Impact. A five-time entrepreneur who scaled the IT services firm Taos to $54M before its acquisition by IBM, she sits on the Nasdaq Governance Insights Council, has been named one of Silicon Valley's 100 Most Powerful People, and is now building Pantheon, an AI-enabled Career Care infrastructure for an economy being reshaped by automation.