Market-relevant series · 2026 · Nominations open
From Deputy to Decision-Maker
The step from advising on the call to owning it.
Nominations are open and free. Anyone can put a name forward, including your own.
About the series
From Deputy to Decision-Maker
The hardest promotion is the one where the work looks similar and the accountability is completely different. This series follows leaders through that step, and what nobody warned them about.
Selection
What earns a place
01
Made the step
Moved from second chair to the seat, and can describe the difference honestly.
02
What changed in the head
The judgment that only arrives once the decision is yours to sign.
03
Useful to the next one
Something a current deputy could act on.
Status
The first cohort is forming
This series is being built in the open
No stories have published in this series yet, and we would rather say so than fill the page. Every piece is written from the executive’s own words and published only once they have approved it. The first names are decided by nomination.
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