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Selling to the C-suite: the 4 things you need to get right Growth

Selling to the C-suite: the 4 things you need to get right

I surveyed our 66 webinar delegates on how to sell to the C-suite and asked them: What is the single biggest challenge you face when selling to the C-suite? The number one challenge, cited by 35% of respondents, was access and attention. There are good reasons for this. Channels

Dan Ilett · 7 min read min read
Bring Out Your Jobs Leadership

Bring Out Your Jobs

The Executive Summary is building a jobs section into the newsletter. Board roles, C-suite appointments, senior leadership positions, NEDs and fractionals appointments. If you're trying to find the best of UK talent and LinkedIn is bringing you some very random and poor results, why not

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
I Am Scared of This And Need Your Help Leadership

I Am Scared of This And Need Your Help

Before we get into this, these are the pieces I am working on over the next few weeks. * A breakdown of the UK budget (Thursday/Friday) * The Executive Summary Awards 2025 (December) * Board dynamics: the paradox of talent vs teamwork * Opex crisis: the invisible costs your CFO can't find

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
Executive Summary: The Ultimate Guide (Examples + Template) Leadership

Executive Summary: The Ultimate Guide (Examples + Template)

The executive summary is the most important and valuable paragraph or one-pager you'll ever write in business. It's also the one most people catastrophically mess up. I've reviewed and written hundreds of executive summaries as a journalist and CEO advisor from and with the largest

Dan Ilett · 15 min read min read
Overwoke and underpaid: Can the BBC recover (again)? Leadership

Overwoke and underpaid: Can the BBC recover (again)?

Hello Children Today, the squirrels are in the boardroom doing their: Libel Badge. "Everyone," winks Baldrick. "I've got a cunning plan. We'll splice different parts of the US president's speech to make it look like he meant something else." Daddy Pig is taking notes. "Isn't he one of the

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
Can You Just Ask AI to Do It? AI

Can You Just Ask AI to Do It?

Cognizant’s VP of Insurance, David Sexton, has forced a hard question into the boardroom. When a hiring request lands, directors now ask not only if a role is essential but whether AI could do it instead. This is no longer an experiment. Sexton points out that much of what insurance

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read
From the Great Moderation to the Great Fragmentation Geopolitics

From the Great Moderation to the Great Fragmentation

The Executive Summary dinner at the Goring last week was a brilliant mix of debate and divergence. Who doesn't like a showdown of geopolitics with a good beef wellington. Before getting into the how the world is shaping up. Shannon Mahaffey from Origina talked the group about how Big IT

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
Mindset Audits and Geopolitics Geopolitics

Mindset Audits and Geopolitics

I'm hosting an Executive Summary dinner at the Goring Hotel in London tonight on Geopolitics and the impact it's having on operational resilience for CEOs. We have some brilliant minds coming - from former cabinet members to chairs of some of the largest organisations. Where the debate is

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read