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Byron Hewett and the problem of 1,129 possibilities
At SomaLogic, Byron Hewett inherited a remarkable commercial puzzle: what to do with 1,129 potential products. His career has kept returning to the work between an invention and a company that can carry it into the world.
Jahn Surette and the Virtue of Knowing More Than One Playbook
She built a career by moving sideways as often as upward, learning call centers, procurement, transformation and global operations. Now the founder of JM Surette Advisors argues that breadth is not a lack of specialty - it is a specialty of its own.
Debbie Weir and the Quiet Architecture of a Movement
Across three decades of nonprofit work, Debbie Weir has practiced a deceptively difficult craft: listening to individual voices, then building the machinery that lets them move institutions.
Claire Bonilla Left the Corner Office to Ask Better Questions
After 16 years at Microsoft and four years leading SightLife, Claire Bonilla chose a career built around judgment, candor and what she calls a higher purpose: helping leaders and their organizations do better by the world.
Louanne Buckley Makes Marketing Carry Its Weight
Across HP, PwC, Norton Rose Fulbright and now Drake International, Louanne Buckley has treated marketing as an operating discipline: close to the customer, accountable to evidence and useful in the rooms where a business decides what comes next.