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Rob Gaedtke Learned Every Side of the Table - Then Took the Head Seat
The KPS3 chief came up through design, technology, accounts and strategy. His real operating system is simpler: show people the numbers, trust them with the work, and keep moving.
John Jorgenson’s Quietly Radical Marketing Idea: Start by Listening
The Cambium Learning CMO built a career turning educational products into legible ideas. His more revealing work is quieter: making room for people to do the work only they can do.
Tarah Cammett Makes Cybersecurity Sound Human
The Silverfort CMO has spent more than two decades translating complicated software into stories people can act on. Her more revealing craft, though, is building teams with empathy, candor and a conspicuous sense of fun.
Nicole Milstead Took the Scenic Route to the C-Suite - and Kept the Map
A social-work graduate became an enterprise-software CMO by learning to read people, systems and numbers at once. Her useful idea is simple: empathy belongs in the operating model.
Brett Bernstein’s long bet on independence
He left Merrill Lynch without taking the usual check, built XML Financial Group from his own pocket, and learned that scaling a wealth firm is less about collecting offices than keeping people.
Katie Foote Is Building the Marketing Machine Behind the Supply Chain
After two decades turning complicated software into stories people can act on, Katie Foote has taken on a new puzzle: making the machinery of global commerce feel clear, human and ready for an AI-shaped era.