As CEO, you're at the center of a complex web of stakeholders—board members, investors, customers, employees, partners, and sometimes regulators. Each has different needs, different timelines, and different definitions of success.

Managing stakeholders isn't about politics or spin. It's about building trust through transparency, alignment through communication, and partnership through delivering on commitments.

In this topic, you'll learn to run effective board meetings, communicate with investors (in good times and bad), maintain customer focus as you scale, and balance the competing demands of different stakeholders.