The New CEO with Ty Wiggins

The Evolving Leader

In this episode of The Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Emma Sinclair talk to CEO and Executive Transition advisor Ty Wiggins. He advises leading companies on leadership transitions and executive onboarding to ensure the accelerated paths to effectiveness and is one of only a handful of people globally with a PhD in senior leadership transitions. Ty is the author of ‘The New CEO – Lessons From CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly’ (Wiley, 2024).
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Check-in (00:03:00)

3. Tell us about your journey and what inspired you to invest your career working with leaders? (00:03:17)

4. What does the CEO role look like today compared to 10 years ago? (00:04:57)

5. Are you seeing any changes in demographics or requirements of a CEO? (00:06:47)

6. What was your focus and mission when writing the book? (00:08:36)

7. What are the biggest surprises for a CEO? (00:11:33)

8. What’s the psychological challenge around trying to separate different audiences? (00:13:49)

9. What’s the difference between how someone hired internally vs externally might make a good start? (00:15:24)

10. What are the most common mistakes that a new CEO makes? (00:19:04)

11. Stories about new CEOs saying the wrong thing (00:20:38)

12. What have you learnt about optimising the relationship between CEO and board? (00:23:23)

13. How should a new CEO think about optimising their time and focus? (00:26:43)

14. What are the practical things that someone can do to ensure that they are using their time in the best way? (00:29:23)

15. What has your research unearthed around new CEOs managing their own energy? (00:31:25)

16. Can we talk about the art of building the top team? (00:33:24)

17. As a new CEO how do you best read individual’s motivations? (00:36:23)

18. Can we talk about the more seasoned CEO’s blindspots? (00:38:43)

19. What strategies help the CEO to keep learning? (00:42:13)

20. Given the global challenges that we’re seeing right now, what advice would you have for a new CEO? (00:45:19)

21. What’s next for you? (00:47:24)

22. What’s you take on how far we’re progressing with diversity at CEO level? (00:48:45)

23. What’s your view on the effectiveness of boards? (00:50:56)

24. How might your conversations with CEOs change over the coming years? (00:52:13)