Founder's Mentality: The CEO Sessions

What can a CEO of a firm learn from a milk co-op?
 
Peder Tuborgh joined Arla Foods as a marketeer, so no one expected that his first move as CEO would be to unite most of the company’s 100 brands under one name. But Peder’s purpose was clear. He built a shared conviction within Arla and developed a value proposition that has guided the company through two decades of turbulence and landmark mergers, all whilst driving relentless growth. Needless to say, there is a lot we can learn from the way Peder leads at Arla.
 
Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Peder as they discuss the importance of focusing on volume growth, the power of thinking beyond the boundaries of a firm, and how Peder balances his ingenious value framework to build resilience within his team.
 
Peder emphasizes the dangers of looking too far into the future. Does a ten-year mindset take away from the work we’re doing today? How can leaders combine today’s values with tomorrow’s goals to build a company that can thrive in turbulence?
 
This is a conversation about value building and people driven leadership that redefines what strategy means.
 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 
00:00 Introduction 
02:42 Launching the Arla brand 
04:18 Betting on people 
05:41 Growth is in Arla's DNA 
07:42 The power of keeping it simple 
08:51 Envision, engage, deliver 
10:37 Engaging stakeholders 
13:10 The importance of volume growth 
15:10 How Arla's values help navigate turbulence 
17:40 Balancing the value framework 
19:47 Arla's DNA is not for discussion 
20:23 Building resilience through values 
22:47 The art of Peder's value framework 
23:58 Bringing the future into today 
25:56 How Peder has changed 
28:06 The importance of meaning 
29:40 The lessons we can all learn from Peder 
31:23 Thinking beyond the boundaries of the firm 
  
LINKS 
Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 
Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 
Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 
Peder Tuborgh LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/peder-tuborgh-aba04935/] 
  
About the Host: 
Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music.

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How do you grow a billion dollar business in the face of extreme turbulence? 

Bruno Lasansky is CEO of Localiza&Co, a Brazilian car rental company that began with just six secondhand VW Beetles in 1973. From surging interest rates to industry altering government policies, there are few companies that have faced adversity quite like Localiza. But for Bruno, turbulence is not something to be scared of. Under his leadership, Localiza&Co has become South America's largest mobility network, and today, it has more than 600,000 cars. 

Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Bruno as they discuss Bruno’s playbook for the perfect storm: how to unleash the power of the unvarnished truth, how to balance pace and strategy to address turbulence face on, and the importance of culture in fuelling growth that will last for the long run. 

Bruno emphasizes the fact that success is not all about winning. Why should a leader shift their mentality away from winning, and towards valuing what they will learn along the journey? 

This is a conversation about transparency, discipline, and becoming a leader that not only guides teams through unforeseeable adversity, but sets them up to thrive before turbulence even arrives. 

 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 

00:00 Introduction 

02:03 The perfect storm 

03:05 The turbulence Bruno was facing 

04:43 Resisting the typical temptations 

06:55 Strategy starts with a reality check 

07:39 Next comes the point of arrival 

09:38 How Bruno leads through turbulence 

10:13 The importance of adapting fast 

11:19 Responding to the unvarnished truth 

12:43 The importance of transparency 

13:55 Be prepared to exit when it’s necessary 

14:28 Never forget the customers or the team 

15:57 The power of people, culture, and the mission 

17:43 Bruno's acid test 

19:05 Entering turbulence with a full battery 

21:13 Bruno’s biggest lesson 

23:32 Winning is a consequence, not the main goal 

25:24 The things that drive Bruno 

26:43 Bruno's perfect storm playbook 

LINKS 

The Fifth New Rule of Scaling: Fall Back in Love with Process - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/FallBackInLoveWithProcess] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Bruno Lasansky LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/brunolasansky/] 

About the Host: 

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music. 

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When did showing up become optional? 

In 2009 Michelle Zatlyn co-founded Cloudflare, a tech startup that powers 45% of all Fortune 500 companies through solving problems that were keeping their leaders up at night. The surprising thing is, Michelle had no background in engineering. She developed an expertise through showing up, leveraged her own strengths to build a billion dollar business, and wrote a playbook all founders can learn from in the process. 

Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Michelle as they discuss the importance of solving problems that people care about, how to build teams that thrive off cross-functional collaboration, and how to balance delivery and development agendas throughout moments of hyperscale. 

Michelle’s story highlights the importance of showing up. Not all leaders start off as experts, but they can become one through being in the room where it happens. How can founders push themselves to show up, even at times where they don't initially have the expertise? 

This is a conversation about balancing delivery with growth, building a team that will drive progress through collaboration, and becoming an expert through showing up in the process. 

 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 

00:00 Introduction 

00:48 No founder has the perfect skillset 

02:31 Finding the right problem to solve 

04:19 Building a customer-led tech company  

06:42 How Michelle became an expert 

08:15 The importance of showing up 

12:37 Navigating moments of hyperscale 

15:18 Scale demands decentralization 

16:20 Empowering cross-functional collaboration 

17:13 Protect the steady state, disrupt the status quo 

18:30 Balancing delivery and development 

19:35 How Cloudflare delivers and develops 

21:43 Scale changes a founder's role 

22:40 Recruiting for spiky capabilities 

24:39 The Cloudflare way 

26:10 Michelle's playbook 

LINKS 

A Beginner's Mindset: The Art of Showing Up - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/TheArtOfShowingUp] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Michelle Zatlyn LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellezatlyn/]

About the Host: 

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music.

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What does it take to build a business that can pass the purpose-driven test? 

Before becoming group CEO and Office of the President at Mars, Poul Weihrauch led a generational transformation of Mars Pet Care that was defined by the things he didn’t do. Poul didn’t pursue a rapid integration or underestimate complexity, and he refined financial strategies by rejecting synergy. Through these unconventional leadership decisions Poul doubled Mars Pet Care’s size, and tripled its organic growth rate. 

Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Poul as they discuss the value of embracing complexity in the name of the customer, how growth doesn't necessarily require synergy, and how Poul built a leadership development program which not only strengthens his leaders but also underpins the company’s growth. 

Poul’s story sets a powerful example for any CEO aiming to build a successful purpose-driven business. How can leaders enable a company to stay true to its purpose even during the most testing challenges? 

This is a conversation about the importance of CEO restraint, embracing the complexity that comes with growth, and the role of a leader in building a company that can pass the purpose-driven test. 

 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 

00:00 Introduction 

02:40 A trip to the graveyard 

03:48 Moving purpose from the walls to decisions 

05:54 Restructuring the leadership team 

07:35 The role of communication 

09:02 The engine one, engine two problem 

10:46 Navigating complexity 

12:31 Focus wins over synergy 

14:53 Poul’s philosophy 

16:12 Refusing synergy is a financial strategy 

17:45 The founder dilemma 

19:02 Poul’s pathfinders program 

20:18 The value of cross-functional collaboration 

21:20 Embracing complexity for the customer 

23:00 The cyber attack 

24:25 Living up to their purpose 

25:56 What it means to be purpose-driven 

27:25 Organization first, self last 

29:45 The lessons Poul learnt 

30:51 Poul’s most important stakeholders 

32:03 The things Poul didn’t do 

LINKS 

A Graveyard of Good Intentions - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/agraveyardofgoodintentions] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Poul Weihrauch LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/poulweihrauch/] 

About the Host: 

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music.

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What does it take to lead a fragmented business through disruptive transformation? 
  
When she joined The Economist as Group CEO, Lara Boro faced a divided company, metaphorically, and physically. She quickly won the confidence of the board, by writing off a £12 million, four year long transformation project, and showing that its replacement wouldn’t need a single pound of investment. It could actually fund itself. Through strategic and purpose-based leadership, Lara solidified her legacy of being the person who was able to finally bring two sides of the business together. 

Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Lara as they discuss the importance of striving for simplification at pace, how culture helped her team embrace an ambitious digital transformation, and how she brought the business together through dissecting one foundational question: what is The Economist? 
  

Lara’s journey also highlights the value of building for the customer. How can analyzing customer data shape budgets and provide strategic direction? 

This is a conversation about the role of a leader in guiding teams through positive disruption, leveraging customer data to shape business strategy, and ensuring every part of a team strives for success together. 

 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 

00:00 Introduction 

01:19 Arriving to a cultural divide 

02:53 The gap between the editorial and the business 

04:36 Understanding the issues from both sides 

05:37 Journalism is independent, but not from the business 

06:27 Lara's playbook - reframing the business strategy 

07:35 Starting by understanding the customer 

08:30 Customer data helps improve efficiency 

09:42 Writing off £12 million and four years of work 

11:50 Why Lara used the phrase "self funding" 

13:19 The when, the how, and the little wins 

14:25 Momentum matters most 

15:35 Mixing pace with simplicity 

16:44 Building a culture that eases tension 

18:06 Maintaining principles in the face of AI 

19:35 Discovering new perspectives through debate 

20:44 Expression may change, but culture stays the same 

21:40 What is The Economist? 

23:32 Convincing the right people to join 

24:27 Lara’s legacy: bringing The Economist together 

25:22 The people who believed in Lara 

26:44 The grand reframe 

LINKS 

The Most Successful Cultural Change Programs Never, Ever Discuss Cultural Change  - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/CEOCulturalChange] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Lara Boro LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-salameh-boro-4a16405/] 

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How will AI impact the business I have spent years building?
 
When Sal Khan, CEO and founder of Khan Academy, was confronted with this question in 2023 he didn’t wait for someone to answer, he learned quickly and built the outcome he wanted. The result was a personalized learning model that enhanced education for 200 million users across the world.
 
Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Sal as they discuss how to embrace the discomfort of navigating disruption, the importance of relearning how to learn, and how CEOs can use AI to strengthen their competitive positions.
 
Sal also reveals the promise he made to his team - if they’re creating AI that can automate their roles they won’t be replaced, they will be promoted. How can leaders find new ways to drive productivity amid the uncertainty surrounding AI?
 
This is a conversation about turning disruption into new opportunities, how curiosity can help us navigate the unknown, and how leaders can leverage AI to set their businesses apart.
 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 
00:00 Introduction 
02:22 The astonishing ability of emerging AI 
03:21 Experimenting with an early AI model 
04:14 Turning fears into features 
04:56 Sal’s quick decision to adopt AI 
05:46 The concerns of AI in education 
07:04 Sal’s symbiosis with AI developers 
07:57 Why Khan Academy had to understand AI 
08:32 How Sal seized the opportunity of disruptive technologies 
09:22 Getting the team on board through confronting risks 
10:05 Preparing to launch 
10:34 The need for a responsible actor becomes clear 
11:56 How Sal built his tiger team 
13:17 How Sal’s mentality helps embrace AI uncertainty 
15:23 Learning how to learn again 
16:11 Helping people learn in the right ways with AI 
18:05 How AI facilitates a deeper education 
19:08 The choice: to thrive with AI, or to be replaced by AI 
19:55 Three key things about learning with AI 
20:36 Sal’s promise 
20:55 A CEO’s guide to using AI 
24:03 The fundamental question answered by Sal’s journey 
25:28 What is personalized mastery education 
28:21 How AI facilitates Khan Academy's personalized learning model 
28:50 Gaining the conviction to adopt AI 
29:54 When conviction turns into validation 
30:37 What we can learn from Sal’s journey 
  
LINKS 
A Scorecard on our 3 AI Journeys - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/AIJourneyScorecard] 
Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 
Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 
Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 
Sal Khan LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/khanacademy/] 
  
About the Host: 
Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music.

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What does it take to expand worldwide without losing sight of the things that matter most? 
  

Daniel Servitje is the executive chairman of Grupo Bimbo, an organization that rose from a small bakery to become one of the largest food corporations in the world. Since taking over in 1997, Daniel has overseen 900% growth and expansion into multiple international markets. Yesterday, he was on a bread truck. 

Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Daniel as they discuss how robust cultures are developed in the field, the long-term value of choosing patience over urgency, and how to navigate building new systems whilst ensuring existing ones continue to function. 

Daniel shares a vital tip for any CEO looking to develop their own business - never let growth separate you from the people that matter. Who really shapes the culture of a successful company? How can a field mentality help leaders grow their businesses? 

This is a conversation about the importance of a long-term perspective, knowing how to build a strong culture from the field, and the role of a leader in driving successful growth. 

 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 

00:00 Introduction 

01:32 An inspiring visit to the bakery 

02:46 Listening to voices across the company 

04:01 What Daniel learned from the annual conference 

05:10 Big ideas come from examining the small things 

06:27 Building a culture that starts from the field 

07:22 What it takes to develop internationally 

08:04 How Grupo Bimbo went international successfully 

09:35 Developing a global culture 

11:33 Culture is built by actions, not by words 

12:46 With growth comes opportunity, but also complexity 

14:10 Why leaders need to break processes and take risks 

16:54 Don’t get trapped by old systems 

18:37 How to transform a company whilst running it 

19:47 The importance of long term thinking 

20:54 Sometimes slower is better 

21:52 Balancing the systems paradox 

22:38 Daniel's leading mentality 

23:36 Getting energy from curiosity 

25:30 Finding the right people to diffuse your energy 

26:44 Why the source of your energy really matters 

27:44 Daniel's recipe for successful growth 

LINKS 

A Case for Complexity - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/thepowerofrenewal] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Daniel Servitje LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielservitje/] 

About the Host 

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music. 

Bain & Company 

Founder’s Mentality: The CEO Sessions is brought to you by Bain & Company, a global consultancy trusted by the world’s most influential business leaders. With decades of experience guiding organizations through growth, transformation, and leadership development, Bain’s executive insights offer what it takes to lead at scale.

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What are the costs of not daring to make a change?  

Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder & CEO of Acumen, an organisation that invests patient capital in enterprises working to reduce poverty around the world. In 2021, she took a $250 million risk when she set out to provide electricity to 75 million people in regions of sub-Saharan Africa that had a 45% electrification rate or below. It paid off.  

  
Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company and Jacqueline as they discuss what we can learn from creative risk taking, how to balance socioeconomic tensions without compromising the mission, and how transforming our mentality from “what if?” to “what if I don’t?” can open the door for positive change.  
  

Jacqueline and Jimmy emphasise the value of asking ‘why’ when navigating complexity as a leader. How can we ensure that we not only remember our ‘why’, but also that it is worth remembering in the first place?  
  

This is a conversation about embracing complexity, the power of asking ‘why’, and daring to take risks in the pursuit of positive change. 
 
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EPISODE CHAPTERS 

00:00 Introduction 

01:21 The billion dollar plan 

02:45 Why Acumen started in the hardest location 

03:58 Securing the first funding - a $10 million bet on Jacqueline 

05:51 Starting and letting the work teach them 

08:37 Getting smarter through creative risk taking 

11:56 How Jacqueline balances her vision with specificity  

12:30 Using deep listening as a tool to understand complexity 

15:33 Closing allows Acumen to reflect on their ‘why’ 

16:37 Embracing complexity is what sets Acumen apart 

18:30 What does it take to master complexity? 

19:03 How rephrasing the question reminds us ‘why’ 

19:36 What is Acumen’s ‘why’ 

20:34 The importance of having the right ‘why’ 

22:11 How Jacqueline approaches complexity 

23:07 Embracing tension, rejecting compromise 

24:40 Advice for ambitious young leaders 

26:19 Jacqueline’s message 

LINKS 

A Case for Complexity - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://tinyurl.com/acaseforcomplexity] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Jacqueline Novogratz LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-novogratz/] 

About the Host:  

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music.

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What does it take to back a decision that may take years to prove itself? 

  
Soon after becoming CEO of Stryker, Kevin Lobo backed a $1.6 billion acquisition of Mako, a loss-making robotics company many customers, investors and industry experts believed was unnecessary. The deal would reshape both orthopedic surgery and Stryker’s growth trajectory. 
  

Join host Jimmy Allen of Bain & Company as Kevin explains why he saw asymmetric upside in robotic-assisted surgery, how he sustained his conviction through disappointing early results, and how one bold bet became the foundation for a repeatable acquisition model spanning more than 60 deals. 
  

Kevin and Jimmy also explore the tension between autonomy and scale. How do you capture the advantages of size without inviting bureaucracy? What should remain decentralized, and where can shared capabilities create a real edge? 

 
This is a conversation about repeatable growth, the cost of complexity, and the CEO’s role in helping leaders think like founders.

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LINKS 

Ask for Help - Jimmy Allen - Blog [https://shorturl.at/qvzxe] 

Bain & Company LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-and-company/] 

Bain & Company X [https://x.com/BainandCompany] 

Jimmy Allen LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-allen-3442b/] 

Kevin Lobo LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinalobo/] 

• (00:00) - Introduction

 
About the Host: 

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label [Abubilla Music] in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music. 

Bain & Company: 

Founder’s Mentality: The CEO Sessions is brought to you by Bain & Company, a global consultancy trusted by the world’s most influential business leaders. With decades of experience guiding organizations through growth, transformation, and leadership development, Bain’s executive insights offer what it takes to lead at scale. 

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Before a strategy becomes a success story, it's a judgement call.

For 35 years, Jimmy Allen has been in the room with the world's most consequential CEOs, and this season, he's bringing you inside those conversations.

Twelve leaders. Twelve moments that tested everything they thought they knew about leading. And one question that keeps coming back: it's not just what the CEO should do. It's who the CEO needs to become.

Founder's Mentality: The CEO Sessions, Season Two. Launches July 7th.

Join the Conversation:

To learn more check out the Founders Mentality website or our CEO Insights hub: 
https://www.bain.com/founders-mentality/

https://www.bain.com/insights/topics/ceo-agenda

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About the Host:

Jimmy Allen is an Advisory Partner at Bain & Company with over 35 years’ experience advising leading organizations. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books on growth and leadership and the host and founder of Bain’s Global CEO Community Forum. Jimmy is a regular speaker at global business events, including the World Economic Forum, and serves on the Botswana Economic Advisory Council. Outside of consulting, Jimmy started his own record label (Abubilla Music) in 2008 and supports Singing Wells, a project dedicated to preserving Kenyan village music.

Bain & Company:

Founder’s Mentality: The CEO Sessions is brought to you by Bain & Company, a global consultancy trusted by the world’s most influential business leaders. With decades of experience guiding organizations through growth, transformation, and leadership development, Bain’s executive insights offer what it takes to lead at scale.