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| Following Your Principal Into a New Job with Danielle Skowronek | 04 Nov 2026 | 00:35:05 | |
Guest: Danielle Skowronek ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielleskowronek/ ), Chief of Staff to the Chief Merchandising Officer and head of strategy and business planning, Under Armour Host: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), F... | |||
| Chief of Staff to the CEO, or to the Business? with Ryan Kelly | 21 Oct 2026 | 01:01:03 | |
Guest: Ryan Kelly ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-kelly1801/ ), VP, Chief of Staff, VeremarkHost: Tristan Lim ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-lim-709527a2/ ), founder of Beyond Founders and Chief of Staff Network Singapore chapter lead Episode... | |||
| Why AI Can't Be a Chief of Staff with Sawyer Middeleer | 14 Oct 2026 | 00:49:31 | |
Guest: Sawyer Middeleer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/sawyer-middeleer/ ), Founder, Revi Systems (former Chief of Staff, Aomni) Host: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), Founder, Chief of Staff Network Episode Overview Every com... | |||
| Who Owns Culture? Yorm Ackuaku Changed Her Mind | 07 Oct 2026 | 00:39:23 | |
Guest: Yorm Ackuaku, Former Chief of Staff to the CMO, WeightWatchers Host: Scott Amenta, Founder, Chief of Staff Network Episode Overview Yorm Ackuaku came into this conversation ready to argue that Chiefs of Staff own culture, then changed her mind. ... | |||
| Inside the Family Office: The Chief of Staff Role with Donald J Cunningham | 30 Sep 2026 | 01:09:56 | |
Guest: Donald J Cunningham ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldcunningham/ ), Head of Family Office for a senior member of the Qatari royal family Host: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), Founder, Chief of Staff Network Episode... | |||
| What AI Policy Is Borrowing From Humanitarian Work with Anna Aden | 23 Sep 2026 | 01:00:50 | |
Guest: Anna Aden ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-aden/ ), Chief of Staff, Asia Pacific at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Host: Tristan Lim ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-lim-709527a2/ ), Chief of Staff Network Fellow and Founder, Beyo... | |||
| Speaking Directly When No One Else Will with KJ of Bifrost AI | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:59:34 | |
Guest: Kartikeya Jaiswal ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjaivc/ ) (KJ), Head of Strategy and Operations, Bifrost AI Host: Tristan Lim ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-lim-709527a2/ ), Chief of Staff Network Fellow and founder at Beyond Founders Epi... | |||
| You Are the Product: Managing Yourself as a Chief of Staff | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:52:10 | |
Host: Tristan Lim ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-lim-709527a2/ ), Chief of Staff Network Fellow and Founder, Beyond Founders Guest: BreeAnne Yek ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/breeyek8/ ), Chief of Staff, Series A MedTech and luxury wellness star... | |||
| A Second Brain, Not an Assistant: beehiiv's Chief of Staff Model | 19 Aug 2026 | 00:53:20 | |
Guests: Tyler Denk ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-denk/ ), Co-founder & CEO, beehiiv | Brian Schneider ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-schneider-nyc/ ), Chief of Staff, beehiivHost: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), F... | |||
| Why the Chief of Staff Should Own AI Adoption, with Zen Foo | 12 Aug 2026 | 00:53:29 | |
Guest: Zen Foo ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/zen-foo-33a22888/ ), Chief of Staff, Aspire Host: Tristan Lim ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-lim-709527a2/ ), founder of Beyond Founders ( https://www.beyondfounders.com/ ) and Chief of Staff Network ... | |||
| Why Slowing Down is a Chief of Staff Superpower | 05 Aug 2026 | 00:32:28 | |
Episode OverviewSpeed is the currency of the Chief of Staff role, but Carrie McMahon argues the way to sustain it is to slow down. A two-time Chief of Staff at one of the fastest-growing AI companies in San Francisco, she treats energy regulation as a ... | |||
| The Incognito Test: Why Most AI Work Reveals Nothing About the Person | 08 Jul 2026 | 00:54:31 | |
Guest: Alex Craig ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/portswigger-alex/ ), Chief of Staff at PortSwigger Host: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), Founder, Chief of Staff Network Most companies say they're adopting AI. PortSwigger act... | |||
| Map Before You Buy: A Chief of Staff AI Playbook | 01 Jul 2026 | 00:40:11 | |
Guest: Kanika Choudhary ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanika-c/ ), Chief of Staff, People IX Host: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), Founder, Chief of Staff Network Episode Overview Most companies are buying AI tools before th... | |||
| AI Is a Productivity Boost, Not a Compass with Eric Nehrlich | 17 Jun 2026 | 00:39:53 | |
Guest: Eric Nehrlich ( https://linkedin.com/in/nehrlich/?skipRedirect=true ), Executive Leadership Coach and former Chief of Staff for Google Search AdsHost: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), Founder, Chief of Staff Network Ep... | |||
| Steering AI at a Privacy-First Company with Delong Lu | 10 Jun 2026 | 00:40:35 | |
Guest: Delong Lu ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/delonglu/ ), Chief of Staff, Proton Host: Scott Amenta ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ), Founder, Chief of Staff Network Delong Lu has spent nearly a decade at Proton ( https://proton.me/ ), t... | |||
| Escaping the Doer Trap with David Kirby | 03 Jun 2026 | 00:48:07 | |
Guest: David Kirby ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkirbyjdmba/ ), Author of "The Ultimate Chief of Staff Guide" ( https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Chief-Staff-Guide-Navigating/dp/B0FVQV5D23 ) (2025), Former Chief of Staff at Ford Motor CompanyHost: S... | |||
| CoS to Functional Leader (and Back): Judy Abad's Career Playbook | 27 May 2026 | 00:43:00 | |
Guest: Judy Abad ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/judyabad/ ), Chief of Staff, CFOO, Freshworks Host: Scott Amenta, ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-amenta/ ) Founder, Chief of Staff Network Judy Abad has oscillated between Chief of Staff and functiona... | |||
| Inside Chief of Staff Connect SF: AI Transformation and What's Next | 21 May 2026 | 00:18:48 | |
Guest: Tom Guthrie, President and Co-Founder, Chief of Staff Network Nearly 100 chiefs of staff gathered in San Francisco, the epicenter of AI optimism and anxiety, to tackle the question: how do we lead transformation when adoption is uneven and the p... | |||
| Why This CoS Left Strategy for Clay: A Case Study in Career Pivots | 06 May 2026 | 00:43:26 | |
Most Chiefs of Staff leave for a bigger title or more money. Lissa Sorgenfrei left to open a pottery studio. After eight years at German construction tech startup Capmo, where she moved from customer success to product management to Chief of Staff to g... | |||
| The CoS Who Won't Just Say Yes: Marlen Heske on Clarity Before Harmony | 29 Apr 2026 | 00:43:50 | |
Guest: Marlen Heske ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlenheske/?locale=de ), Chief of Staff at Enpal Episode Overview At fast-moving companies, the problem is rarely a lack of ideas or urgency. It's that everyone is chasing too many things at once. Marl... | |||
| Managing 5 Clients at Once: A Fractional Chief of Staff's Playbook | 22 Apr 2026 | 00:49:46 | |
How do you switch contexts between skincare operations, luxury recruiting, and B2B financial modeling all in the same day? Zoe Jakubowich ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-jakubowich/ ) joins Chief of Staff Network Fellow, Tristan Lim ( https://www.lin... | |||
| The VC Chief of Staff: Building in Ambiguity with Stephania Greco | 15 Apr 2026 | 00:36:41 | |
Stephania Greco ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephania-greco-ab8a5b116/ ) takes us inside the Chief of Staff role at Bicycle Capital, a growth-stage VC fund, and reveals how it differs from startup CoS work. Instead of managing product roadmaps and cr... | |||
| The Integrity Pyramid: What Actually Makes a Great Chief of Staff | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:46:23 | |
Priyanka Peeramsetty has been a Chief of Staff, a growth operator, a community builder, and is now Engineering Operations Director at Crunchyroll — and she'll tell you the one thing that underpins all of it: integrity. In this episode, Executive Coach ... | |||
| From Chief of Staff to Product Manager: Sarah Kislak on Following Your Talent | 11 Mar 2026 | 00:42:10 | |
Sarah Kislak spent nearly a decade at Box, progressing from an executive assistant in a rotational program to Chief of Staff for a 1,000-person engineering org, and ultimately into product management. In this episode, Sarah shares what she learned by o... | |||
| Navigating the Intersection of Public and Private Leadership | 04 Mar 2026 | 00:34:02 | |
Have you ever wondered what it takes to manage the intricate dance of politics and business? Meet Nick Greif, a seasoned leader who has seamlessly maneuvered through both the public and private sectors as a Chief of Staff. We delve into the path charte... | |||
| Positioning Yourself as a Chief of Staff | 25 Feb 2026 | 00:38:43 | |
Positioning Yourself as a Chief of Staff How do you stand out when thousands of people are applying for the same Chief of Staff role? And what if you've never held the title before? In this episode, Scott Amenta sits down with Chief of Staff Network Pr... | |||
| The Career Accelerant: Lessons from a Chief of Staff Turned COO | 18 Feb 2026 | 00:43:43 | |
Bryan Silverman joined Suzy (then CrowdTap) as an SDR and never left. Over nearly 11 years, he's moved from enterprise sales to Chief of Staff, to running a business unit, to his current role as COO. In this episode, Bryan talks with Scott about the le... | |||
| From Force Multiplier to Builder: Why We're Taking Connect to 7 Cities in 2026 | 11 Feb 2026 | 00:09:39 | |
Chief of Staff Connect is expanding to seven cities in 2026, our biggest year yet. We're meeting Chiefs of Staff at one of the most critical inflection points in the role. In this episode, Scott Amenta and Tom Guthrie break down the strategy behind Con... | |||
| From Boardroom to Therapy Room: What Chiefs of Staff Need to Know About Emotional Support | 04 Feb 2026 | 00:26:22 | |
Chiefs of Staff often find themselves serving as informal therapists to their principals, but where's the line? Dhyan Valle, spent 2.5+ years as Chief of Staff at MightyHive shares what he got right and wrong when supporting his principal, including th... | |||
| The Builder's Mindset: How Chiefs of Staff Create Real Ownership | 28 Jan 2026 | 00:41:12 | |
Elyse Levine's career has taken her from the FBI's cyber division to Disney Parks to running USC's new capital campus in Washington, DC. Along the way, she's learned that the Chief of Staff role isn't just about support, it's about finding the projects... | |||
| Finding Your Inner Compass: How Chiefs of Staff Can Lead with Purpose in the Age of AI | 21 Jan 2026 | 00:29:58 | |
Chiefs of Staff are often the first to feel organizational misalignment, but rarely have the tools to address it. In this episode, Michaela Zuckova and Carl Miller, co-founders of T he Purpose Project, share how AI can become a powerful tool for self-d... | |||
| The Stunt Double: How Chiefs of Staff Create Impact Through Anticipation | 14 Jan 2026 | 00:34:10 | |
How do you measure success in a role with no clear KPIs? Itamar Melamed, Chief of Staff at Empathy, reveals his framework for managing up effectively: tracking decisions made on behalf of his CEO, anticipating needs before they're voiced, and building ... | |||
| Strategy vs. Operations: The Chief of Staff's Balancing Act | 07 Jan 2026 | 00:36:11 | |
Emily Sander, Founder + CEO + Executive Leadership Coach at Next Level Coaching joins us to unpack one of the most fundamental tensions in the Chief of Staff role: when to zoom out for strategy and when to dive into operations. Drawing from her own exp... | |||
| Beyond Excel: Building Operating Rhythm from Scratch | 17 Dec 2025 | 00:34:44 | |
"I didn't inherit a broken one. I did inherit a non-existent one." Jamie Dalton, Chief of Staff at Adobe, joins the podcast with Scott to share her experience building operating rhythm from nothing. When the team moved from finance into IT, they brough... | |||
| Scaling with Structure: How Ben Darfler Brings Strategy to Life at Honeycomb | 10 Dec 2025 | 00:40:46 | |
As Honeycomb crosses 250 employees, Ben Darfler is focused on one thing: making strategy actionable at scale. In this episode, Ben sits down with Scott Amenta to share how his engineering background shaped his approach to planning, decision-making, and... | |||
| Ena Patel on Taking the Leap from Chief of Staff to President | 03 Dec 2025 | 00:32:25 | |
Ena Patel, Team President at Innovation Baseball Partners, has built her career by stepping into complexity and turning it into momentum. In this episode, she joins Tom Guthrie, President of Chief of Staff Network, to share how she moved from tax law i... | |||
| Context Into Action: Systems Thinking as a Chief of Staff | 26 Nov 2025 | 00:45:43 | |
Jamie White, Chief of Staff, Marketing at Notion, shares her journey from Broadway and consulting to driving clarity and alignment in high-growth tech companies like Slalom, Grammarly and Notion. In this episode, she introduces her “Three Altitudes” fr... | |||
| Scaling Without Bureaucracy: How Lu Borko Builds High-Trust, High-Growth Teams | 12 Nov 2025 | 00:42:32 | |
In this episode, we sit down with Lu Borko, Chief of Staff at Manychat, to unpack how fast-growing companies can scale without losing their edge. Drawing from her experiences at Deliveroo, Intercom, and now Manychat, Lu shares how to build systems that... | |||
| Hard Things Make Strong Teams: Inside the Mindset of The Tempest Two | 05 Nov 2025 | 00:45:02 | |
Tommy Caulfield and James Whittle — better known as The Tempest Two — had never rowed a boat in their lives when they set out to cross the Atlantic Ocean. No experience. No support crew. Just a willingness to figure it out. In this episode, we explore ... | |||
| Finding Your Anchor: Boundaries, Burnout, and Resilience with Tristan Lim | 29 Oct 2025 | 00:41:27 | |
Tristan Lim went from scaling a high-growth startup as Chief of Staff at Commsor to coaching founders and operators on how to lead with clarity, courage, and purpose. In this episode, he joins Scott to explore the inner work that too often gets overloo... | |||
| Storytelling That Sticks: Andrea Mayendia on Driving Change at Dow Jones | 22 Oct 2025 | 00:31:12 | |
In this episode, Dow Jones Chief of Staff to the CTO/CPO, Andrea Mayendia, joins Scott to explore how storytelling can drive clarity and confidence during large-scale transformation. Drawing from her 20+ year career in product, strategy, and operations... | |||
| Building the CEO Operating System: Lessons on Scale, Conflict, and the People Side of Growth w/ Dora Nagy | 15 Oct 2025 | 00:49:39 | |
Former SoftBank Chief of Staff to the COO, Dora Nagy, joins Scott Amenta to unpack the real operating system behind scaling leaders and organizations. From her early career at Google to helping launch SoftBank’s $100B Vision Fund, Dora shares what she’... | |||
| The Revenue-Minded CoS | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:33:42 | |
Operator and fractional Chief of Staff Lauren Werner (ex-Slate, Vox) shares how she translates market signals into systems that drive growth. We cover her transition to fractional Chief of Staff, landing her first clients, defining high-impact scopes (... | |||
| Building Smarter Finance Teams: Tax, AI, and the Startup Chief of Staff with Andrew Rea | 23 Sep 2025 | 00:21:31 | |
In this episode, Tom Guthrie, President of Chief of Staff Network, sits down with Andrew Rea, co-founder and CEO of Taxwire, to unpack the challenges of global sales tax compliance and the shifting role of finance teams in fast-growing startups. Andrew... | |||
| Humans, Fear, and AI: Leading Transformations with Dominique Lear | 10 Sep 2025 | 00:29:50 | |
Scott Amenta sits down with Dominique Lear, Chief of Staff at Incandescent, to explore why organizational change so often falters on the human side. From her journey in publishing to consulting, Dominique shares lessons on managing fear, building trust... | |||
| The VC Chief of Staff Playbook with Alexa Gellman | 28 Aug 2025 | 00:34:19 | |
Go behind the scenes of venture capital with Alexa "Lex" Gellman, a Chief of Staff at Inspired Capital. Lex shares how she manages deal pipelines and supports portfolio founders. You will also learn about practical tools for network mapping and hear he... | |||
| Beyond the Buzzword: Real Stories of Leveling-Up as a CoS | 22 Aug 2025 | 00:28:12 | |
What does it really mean to "level up" as a Chief of Staff? In this episode recorded live at a dinner event in NYC, a select group of Chiefs of Staff share authentic stories of growth and impact in their roles. From using simple Google Docs to outperfo... | |||
| Transitioning From VC to Chief of Staff with Sharlene Guiriba | 14 Aug 2025 | 00:27:15 | |
Are you looking to transition into the Chief of Staff role? In this episode, you will learn from Sharlene Guiriba, Executive Chief of Staff at Coverdash., Sharlene discusses her transition to the CoS role from operating roles and Venture Capital, empha... | |||
| Strategy Is a Choice: Aarti Bhatnagar on Leading with Intention | 12 Aug 2025 | 00:24:16 | |
In this episode, we sit down with Aarti Bhatnagar, former Chief of Staff at Change.org and Guild, and now executive coach and facilitator. Aarti shares how she built a career as a generalist, navigated defining moments like company-wide layoffs, and di... | |||
| The Hidden Power of Saying It Well | 07 Aug 2025 | 00:25:17 | |
Great communication isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s a leadership skill that shapes culture, builds trust, and drives alignment. In this episode, Rachel Peck shares lessons from nearly a decade at Harry’s, where she helped scale internal messaging from ... | |||
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