The recent announcement of this year’s Gamesindustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards once again shines a spotlight on companies that understand what every executive knows but not all act on: culture is not a ‘nice to have,’ it is a growth strategy.
Caroline Stokes is described as a leadership strategist for the ‘5th Industrial Revolution’. And some of you may know her from her days working in the games industry at Sony, where she helped to launch the original PlayStation, plus Virgin Interactive and Nokia. In more recent years, she’s evolved from executive headhunter to an authority on psychological and strategic leadership reinvention via her executive coaching business FORWARD – and she has just authored a new book - AfterShock to 2030: A CEO’s Guide to Reinvention in the Age of AI, Climate, and Societal Collapse. I’ve had the pleasure of talking to Caroline about her background, her work and the blueprint her new book offers to the progressive and forward-thinking C-Suite…
In today’s era of social media scrutiny, it’s no longer enough for a company to emblazen its values on a website or in corporate messaging. As we’ve seen from news reports in recent weeks, for senior leaders, every handshake, every reaction, every off duty moment can become tomorrow’s headline.
