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S14 E10 Byron Loflin: Think You’re Ready to Be CEO? Here’s What it Takes.

In this FOMO Sapiens episode, Patrick McGinnis speaks with Byron Loflin, Global Head of Board Advisory at NASDAQ and co-author of CEO Ready, about how to build better boards, smarter leaders, and more resilient organizations. Loflin’s career was shaped by the 2008 financial crisis, when he saw firsthand the cost of poor governance and weak risk oversight. Since then, he’s made it his mission to elevate board standards and prepare future CEOs for the realities of leadership.

He argues that true readiness goes beyond qualifications; it’s about humility, process, and the courage to ask the right…

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