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Mara Stefan is Vice President of Global Insights at Manpower Group, a $20 billion talent services firm – one of the largest in the world. Over her 25-year career, Mara’s has done nearly everything in thought leadership, from working with executives and their organizations to create thought leadership content to developing and executing thought leadership […]

Francis Hintermann directs Accenture’s thought leadership research machine. As global managing director of Accenture Research, he runs a 350-person unit that has been helping the $63 billion (revenue) global consulting, IT services and outsourcing company stay on the forefront of digital expertise. He joined the company in 1998, created its Strategy Research team (with members

Doug Farren, managing director of Ohio State’s National Center for the Middle Market, discusses how to build research programs that generate big ideas and marketplace interest. How do B2B organizations build multiyear research programs that generate big ideas and marketplace interest? A number of big ideas have come out of such programs – the Challenger

McKinsey & Company’s Group Head of Communications talks about how thought leaders can write better, the impact of AI writing programs like ChatGPT, and his own quest to become a better writer. How can thought leaders improve their writing? Few people are more qualified to answer this question than Glenn Leibowitz, Group Head of Communications