09/08/2025
True Story: Every other Friday I allow for 60 minutes of coffee with complete strangers. Why waste this energy as a CEO?
As a very focused CEO with my head down 90% of the time, I have to actually schedule having my head up.
Very rarely is it time wasted.
This week, over one of my “coffee with a stranger” Fridays, I met someone who didn’t fit our ICP on paper. But he mentioned he was looking for a female board members for his new company. And I instantly thought of several women in our hashtag community who are not only qualified, but would be an incredible asset to his vision.
In GLEAC - Community-as-a-Service Platform, People and AI Agents, I have turned this into a scalable model — building cross-domain conversations into upskilling programs for our clients, from ministries to multinationals. These conversations connect:
Industry veterans to emerging talent
Policymakers to entrepreneurs
Technical experts to creatives
The result? Faster innovation, richer problem-solving, and a workforce ready for jobs we can’t even define yet. In one pilot with a national skills program, this approach connected 200+ professionals across sectors in just 6 weeks — leading to 14 cross-industry projects that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
Keep reading: https://www.wisdomofthebold.gleac.com/p/this-is-how-the-bold-get-ahead