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Barbara Fagan and the Company That Made Room for Life
She started ROI Communication with two young daughters and a question about how work should fit into a life. Twenty-five years later, her employee-owned firm is taking that question into the age of AI.
Kendra Seaman Makes Ambiguity Behave
Across PTC, Toast and Calix, Kendra Seaman has built a career in the consequential space between a strategy and the people expected to carry it out.
Ilana Matro Makes a Career of the Problems Without a Playbook
After six years crossing the seams of MongoDB's revenue organization, Ilana Matro has joined Cursor to build the operating backbone for a company moving at AI speed. Her specialty is making change legible before it becomes comfortable.
Catherine Riedel Makes Complicated Companies Understandable
Across three decades, the Chicago communications executive has translated dense technology, corporate change and public-sector ambition into language people can actually use. Her method begins with a deceptively unfashionable question: should we do this at all?
Amy King Learned to Read Pictures. Now She Makes Complex Companies Legible.
The Relias CMO took an art historian's eye into software, rebuilt marketing around service and curiosity, and gave her team a memorable ritual for getting failure into the open.
Elizabeth Abrams Sells the Least Fashionable Thing in AI: Proof
The Greenwich-based fractional CMO has built a career around a stubborn corporate problem: getting people to trust, understand, and actually use new systems. At Sequentum, that assignment has become a message for the AI era - evidence before enchantment.
Krishna Dunthoori Built a Career Around the Last Mile of Software
He cleaned snow from German train platforms before dawn, learned enterprise software from the inside, and turned one stubborn question into two companies: why do expensive tools so often fail the people using them?
Emily Kehinde Built Her Way From Change Management to the C-Suite
Before she led a global brand, Emily Kehinde learned how organizations absorb change. Her rise at Cushman & Wakefield shows why the modern marketing job belongs as much to builders and translators as it does to storytellers.
Michael McKay Bet His Consulting Firm on One Platform
After a career spanning Accenture, the Dallas Cowboys and sports merchandise, Michael McKay built Enforce around an unfashionable idea: deep focus beats a sprawling services menu. Its 2026 merger with HR Path turned that constraint into a global opportunity.
Danielle Brown Came Back to a Different Marketing Scoreboard
After a year away, the Toronto CMO returned to an industry being rewritten by AI. Her answer is the same operating discipline she has carried from music to loyalty to SaaS: connect the creative work to revenue, tell the truth about the numbers and keep enough nerve to trust your gut.
David Lamarche Knows the Hard Part of Transformation Is Human
Levio's CMO built a career connecting technical systems, customer journeys and the people asked to change. His most revealing lesson begins with a surprisingly small question: can we keep our chairs?
Dima Syrotkin Is Teaching Companies to Hear What Change Sounds Like
At Pandatron, Dima Syrotkin is turning a founder’s long interest in self-awareness into an AI system for the awkward human work between corporate strategy and execution.
Andrew Higashi
Andrew Higashi is the Co-founder and CEO of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps companies communicate with and engage their people the way the best brands engage customers. A three-time company builder, he spent a decade honing enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy at Gigya, WorkSpan, and Sendoso before founding ChangeEngine in 2021 with the same co-founding team he has worked alongside for ten years. ChangeEngine has raised $15.5 million in total funding, including a $10 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures in 2024, and serves 310+ employees globally with operations in the US, UK, and Latin America.
Nellie Wartoft
Nellie Wartoft is a Swedish technology entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Tigerhall, a Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 500 companies drive organizational transformation at scale using AI and social learning. She moved from a small Swedish village to Singapore at 18 with a one-way ticket, spent 4.5 years as a top billing recruiter at Michael Page, then built Tigerhall from scratch into a platform operating across 32 countries, backed by Sequoia Capital and Monk's Hill Ventures with over $10 million in venture capital. Before her tech career she was a Swedish national champion in skeet shooting and air rifle.