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Leadership across continents requires more than a clear strategy. It requires the ability to understand people, adapt to changing circumstances, and create an environment where teams can perform at their best. For Ruan Cowley, leadership is rooted in clarity, accountability and trust. His approach has been shaped by years of operating across different industries, markets […]

The room was tense before Nicole Martone said a word. Homeowners packed the folding chairs of a New Jersey community clubhouse, budget printouts in hand, many of them already certain that a 58 percent jump in monthly fees was a mistake somebody was about to have to defend. That somebody, on this particular evening, was […]

When Jeffrey Britell was weighing a future in medicine or law as a young man in Connecticut, he never imagined spending three decades building networks for the global financial markets, let alone leading operations for a company that helps buildings breathe cleaner air. But a stint helping his father run a small business changed everything. […]

Mark Soucie never set out to run an iron foundry. He set out to do what he had always done — find the gap, size up the risk, and figure out how to make it work. That instinct, sharpened over more than 13 years as a business unit CFO at Koch Industries, led him to […]

Not long after applying to Collins Community Credit Union, Ben Wickum received what appeared to be good news: an email informing him he had made the final candidate list. There was just one problem — the message was meant for someone else with the same name. He flagged the mix-up to the recruiter and quietly […]

Neha Morrison walked into a boardroom filled with senior executives and a board member for an interview at Malvern Preparatory School, and as she introduced herself around the table, the greeting struck her as oddly distant and reserved. She left the interview unimpressed, already mentally moving on. Then, before she had even made it home, […]

Not many aerospace executives can say their company gatherings happen in a 1950s diner — inside their house. But Jim Nelson isn’t most executives. Tucked into his South Dakota home is a full Coca-Cola-themed diner, complete with counter stools, a working kitchen, and enough nostalgia to make you forget you’re not in an episode of […]

David Mitchell has spent his career leaning into the unfamiliar. From launching a publicly traded infrastructure fund in the mid-2000s to overseeing the finances of a wind energy startup in Brazil, where he also founded a solar company, the veteran CFO has built his professional identity around calculated risk — the kind that demands both […]

James McHale was not supposed to be on that train from Milan to Venice. Neither was the woman across from him. It was a first-time trip through Northern Italy, the kind of connection travelers forget within a week, except this one lasted. She was Italian, he was a young American with a background in finance […]

Danny Burk did not set out to become the drone guy that other drone guys call when they’re in over their heads. He set out to take cool pictures from the sky. The business, as he explains it with the resigned cheerfulness of a man who has made peace with his own chaos, was originally […]