Market-relevant series · 2026 · Nominations open
Second Act Leaders
The career that started again, on purpose.
Nominations are open and free. Anyone can put a name forward, including your own.
About the series
Second Act Leaders
Some of the best operators we meet are doing the thing they moved to, not the thing they trained for. This series is about the decision to start again with a full career already behind you, and what carried across.
Selection
What earns a place
01
A genuine change
Function, industry or side of the table. Not a promotion.
02
The cost is named
What the move actually took. The version without the cost is not the story.
03
What transferred
The skill that turned out to be portable, and the one that did not.
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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