The CEO Project Podcast

New Episode: How Do Top Leaders Handle Stress

In this episode, you’ll hear from Kerry Ford—former creative director turned global leadership advisor for top-tier women leaders—who explains why success often comes with silent struggles no one talks about. Kerry helps founders and CEOs break patterns they didn’t know were sabotaging their leadership and well-being. If you’ve ever wondered why the same challenges keep resurfacing no matter how hard you work, this conversation will hit home.

By tuning in, you’ll discover:

• How unresolved trauma and nervous system dysregulation show up in leadership decisions, hiring patterns, and team dynamics.

• What “functional freeze” looks like—and why chronic stress might be hiding behind your drive to succeed.

• How building somatic fluency can expand your capacity to handle pressure, avoid burnout, and lead with more clarity, creativity, and control.

The CEO Project Summer Blog

We want to highlight some of the latest CEO Project Blogs written by Jim Schleckser, our Founder and CEO this summer.

July Blog: How to Use Leading and Lagging Indicators to Guide Strategy

Have your business decisions ever felt one step behind reality? You aren’t alone! Many CEOs rely heavily on historical data, such as revenue, churn, and profit margins, as indicators of performance. These lagging indicators reveal what has already occurred, while leading indicators offer key insights into what might occur next.

In this blog post, we’ll outline what indicators truly are and how to find the appropriate ones for your business, while avoiding common measurement pitfalls.

The CEO Project

Are you a company with between $50M and $2B in revenue? 

As the CEO of a larger company, every decision you make carries enormous consequences and risk. The larger and more complex the business, the greater the chance of a mistake, and a big one.

Yet, too often, leaders like you navigate high-stakes challenges in isolation, without the constructive review of peers who have been there and done it.

The CEO Project provides a structured environment to pressure-test your thinking, assess risks, and improve the chances for a great outcome

– every time. We do this with a hand-picked group of CEOs running enterprises of similar size and complexity to yours. You might not have faced this decision before, but usually one of your group members has and has insight on the risks.

The result? Avoid costly mistakes and missed opportunities that can threaten everything you’ve built.