About Executive Careers with Fexingo: VP, C-Suite, and Senior Leadership Career Strategy
Lucas and Luna strip the mystique from executive career transitions. In each episode, they examine one concrete career move — a VP of Product becoming a Chief Innovation Officer, a CFO exiting to a PE-backed portfolio company, a General Counsel landing a board seat — and trace the actual mechanics: the search process, the compensation architecture, the political calculus inside the hiring organization. Lucas brings the journalist's eye for precedent and market data; Luna presses on the human dimensions — how to read a boardroom, when to walk away from an offer, what to disclose and what to protect. They name real executives, real searches, real offer letters. No generic advice about 'building your personal brand.' Instead: a breakdown of how a Fortune 500 CMO structured her transition to a private-equity portfolio CEO role, or why a particular SVP chose to take a lateral title for a 40% equity upside. The show serves the senior leader who has already read the standard career books and needs the next level of specificity — the negotiations that happen after the handshake, the signals that separate a genuine opportunity from a vanity title. How do you know when the offer is real — and when it is, how do you say yes on your own terms?
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Most executives fail not because they lack skill, but because they refuse to build the systems that outlive them. This episode dissects the handoff protocol used by leaders at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft when transitioning power. We look at why leaving behind a manual is more valuable than leaving a legacy, and how to audit your organization’s dependency on your specific brainpower before you walk out the door.
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11 Oct 2026
The Executive Skill Decay Trap
In October of two thousand twenty-six, the gap between technical proficiency and leadership readiness has widened into a dangerous chasm. We explore how senior leaders let their core operational skills atrophy while chasing boardroom visibility, leaving them unprepared when restructuring hits. Using examples from manufacturing and fintech, we examine why the executive who stops doing the work becomes invisible to the market. Lucas and Luna discuss the specific mechanics of skill decay, how to audit your own operational relevance, and why maintaining hands-on competence is no longer optional for C-suite survival.
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10 Oct 2026
The Executive Network Audit Strategy
Most senior leaders build networks by collecting contacts, not cultivating influence. This episode examines why the modern C-suite is failing at reciprocal value exchange and introduces a four-quadrant audit framework used by top performers to map their actual decision-making access versus their vanity metrics. We look at how Fortune five hundred executives are shifting from broad networking to deep sector-specific alliances in a market that rewards niche authority over generalist connections.
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