The Quantum Intelligent CEO
What AI Can’t Do: The Leadership Capabilities That Just Became Non-Negotiable
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy Everyone is talking about what AI can do. And fair enough—it’s remarkable. AI can analyze a decade of market data in seconds, generate competitive intelligence reports overnight, and draft communication that sounds eerily like it came from your best strategist. The speed is real. The scale is real.…
Read MoreStrategic Planning for CEOs: A New Take in 2026.
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy Here’s something I almost never hear from the CEOs I work with: “My strategic plan is terrible.” What I hear instead is some version of: “The plan is fine. The goals make sense. But something’s off and I can’t put my finger on it.” They’re not wrong. And…
Read MoreCEO Strategic Advisory vs. Executive Coaching: Deciding What You Need
7-8 Minute Read Forty percent of CEOs fail within their first eighteen months. Not because they lack intelligence. Not because they don’t work hard enough. They fail because they’re unprepared for the strategic challenges they face—and the kind of support they’re getting isn’t addressing the real problem. Most CEOs hire executive coaches to work on…
Read MoreAvoid Transformation Fatigue By Designing Better Strategy
Updated: Feb 24 Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy I was talking with a colleague last week about the non-stop change initiatives we were both seeing with our clients. She was working with a CEO who had just announced his organization’s third major transformation in five years. First came the digital transformation. Then the culture transformation.…
Read MoreMinding the Strategy Gap: Why Strategic Plans Fail
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy If you’ve ever ridden the London Underground, you know the phrase. Mind the gap. It’s repeated at every stop, projected onto every platform, drilled into every commuter’s subconscious. The warning exists because the space between the train and the platform is exactly where people get hurt. Not on the…
Read MoreWhy You Need More Than a Great Facilitator for Strategic Planning
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy It’s not a mystery that you need a good strategy and a solid plan to execute it. Most leaders understand this. What most leaders underestimate is what it actually takes to get there. The problem with most strategic planning efforts isn’t the process itself. There are plenty of…
Read MoreNew CEO Challenges: Six Pitfalls To Avoid
Updated: Feb 23 Regardless of experience, every newly anointed CEO, Executive Director, or Head of Agency will face challenges that require rapid adaptation in leadership approach as well as personal evolution to be successful. These new CEO challenges are predictable but unique in how they manifest. Stepping into the role of CEO brings a spectrum of…
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