CEO Ready

Entering the fray as a candidate for an open CEO position, whether in your own company or another, is unlike anything else you'll go through in your career. No matter how qualified, no matter how many people are telling you good things about your candidacy, you're not as ready as you think you are and you can't control what you think you can. You need to understand who the key stakeholders are in your process and how to communicate with them to get the job. This is your CEO job manual from coaches who've helped thousands through the process.- Deeply experienced team with decades of experience helping thousands of CEO candidates giving credible, authoritative, and candid advice to reader.- Author's view from both sides (candidate and selection committee) gives unique insights into readers who want to understand those who control their fate.- Structured around practical advice for engaging with seven key stakeholders in productive ways during the selection process makes content immediately actionable- Engaging stories from the field bring the topic to life.
Audience: Leaders, C-suite executives, CEOs, CEO aspirants, board members, HR executives, high-potential executives, leadership coaches.

Mark Thompson is the CEO of the CEO Academy, an SHRM-McKinsey-Wharton partnership. Based at Stanford University, Mark has coached the leaders of some of the world's fastest-growing innovative companies, including former Lyft CEO Logan Green, Pinterest cofounder Evan Sharp, Richard Branson, and Steve Jobs. He has been voted by the American Management Association as the World's #1 Executive Coach for companies driving growth, innovation, and transformational change.
Byron Loflin is the Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq, where he leads board assessments and boardroom training for Nasdaq Governance Solutions. He is the founder and former CEO of the Center for Board Excellence (CBE)—acquired by Nasdaq in 2019—and is the architect of CBE's unique board assessment and advisory platform.