5 Tools to Drive Growth in Your Business

Growth doesn’t happen overnight. Sustainable, consistent growth — the kind of unicorn growth every CEO dreams about — requires a disciplined strategy. While every CEO needs to listen to their intuition, you don’t have to reinvent a brand new way of doing things.  I’ve worked with hundreds of CEOs as clients and as coaches to […]

Cyrus Sigari on the Future of Everything

The future of everything is here, and regardless of your industry, it will impact how you do business.  At the 2022 Make BIG Happen Summit, Cyrus Sigari, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of UP.Partners venture capital firm and former CEO of jetAVIVA, shared a masterclass on converging technologies, the close relationship between mobility and energy, and […]

Secrets to Perfecting Your Pitch

LaQuita Cleare shares secrets on how how leaders can make their stories more compelling during this 2022 Make BIG Happen Summit replay.

Your First 100 Days as CEO–Now What?

When Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) took the oath of office in March of 1933, he hit the ground running. Within the first 100 days of his presidency, FDR pushed the Emergency Banking Act through Congress to battle the Great Depression, revolutionized how presidents communicate via his fireside chat radio addresses, and unveiled 15 pieces of […]

How Successful CEOs Conduct Annual Planning

What do you want? It’s a BIG question. But as CEO, it’s the question at the heart of your business, and how you’ll approach the new year. Your annual planning process this year may still look and feel a little different. While many of the pandemic-era challenges are beginning to fade away, we’ll likely feel […]

Are Leaders Born or Made?

As prep for a BIG 2023, leaders should take a moment to reflect on these four key ideas that could improve their performance.

3 Secrets to Success for PE-Backed CEOs

Private equity firms require a whole new set of skills for CEOs, especially if you’re transitioning from bootstrapping or solely with venture capital funding. To help understand how to succeed as a PE-backed CEO, we tapped three of our top coaches who come from years of executive leadership experience with private equity partners.