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Hello Judith,
I'm here together with you in Davos.

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You are leading BCG's global CEO Advisory
team.

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Thanks a lot for making the time.

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Thanks for having me.

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Let me quickly ask you,
what are your main takeaways from Davos

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so far?

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Look, I think this year, for me,
Davos feels a bit like the final dawn of

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a new era.

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We've talked about geopolitics moving
from cooperation to more competition,

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world trade moving from integrated to
more fragmented for a long time.

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I think this week's,
where this coincides with the start of a

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new US administration,
has brought this home to every CEO here.

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That's the new normal.

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I still found the discussions here
optimistic and practical,

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very much focused on what does this now
really mean for business leaders?

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How do we compete?

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If trade is more in economic blocs,
where do we really excel at?

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And for Europe specifically,
how does that drive a really innovative

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industrial policy?

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But also practical questions on how do we
extract value from AI?

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How do we build a really strong
geopolitical muscle to prepare our our

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companies for increased volatility?

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Those were some of the really practical
things I felt leaders were really

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grappling with.

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A wonderful summary.

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It resonates very well with me.

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Judith, thanks so much.

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Now taking a quick view on the CEO
Advisory, what are the key elements that,

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as part of those programs.
- At the core,

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we aim to do three things and offer those
to CEOs.

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One is individual programs.

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We do those primarily for CEO candidates
in a formal board process for new CEOs

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who's at the start of a new tenure and
really need to take time and want to take

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time to reflect on what defines success
for them very personally.

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And also for what we call next generation
CEOs,

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leaders who are probably two to four
years from their first CEO position and

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would really like to reflect what it
takes.

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So that's the call.

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We delivered a bit more than 200 of these
programs last year and then we saw

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another 450,
500 CEOs in what we call CEO learning

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communities.

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Those are both face to face and virtually.

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And it's really getting a like-minded
group of twelve,

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fifteen CEOs together on an agenda of
shared interest.

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It's not a BCG show.

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It's really learning from each other.

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And then certainly we invest in research
of topics that are relevant for CEO

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performance.

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Where do CEOs spend their time on,
what's the role and profile of a great

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chief of staff?

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So that's what we do, Yeah.

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And learning from each other from CEO to
CEO, I guess.

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And if you have to pinpoint the one thing
that CEOs are mostly appreciative of?

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- I believe it's really that idea of
taking time to reflect out of very

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fragmented,
crowded calendars where they always feel

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they're running.

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I also think it's,
it's this fact that it's about themselves

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and really that reflection on what makes
them successful, what gives them energy,

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not only about the business.

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And then lastly,
it's the complete confidentiality, right,

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a safe space that they can really reflect
also on the hard things and not be on a

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stage.

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And do you see...now,
most of what the work that we are doing

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or that you are leading is in the private
sector.

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Do you see also demand coming in from the
public sector?

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We've served CEOs in the public sector in
very different shapes and forms.

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So CEOs of state-owned companies,
CEOs of NGOs and other international

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organizations or partly also CEOs or
directors of federal agencies or state

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agencies.

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And I think part of these,
their challenges are obviously different.

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They deal with a stakeholder environment
that's usually a lot more sophisticated

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and complex,
but a lot of the challenges in terms of,

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what's my narrative for where I would
like to take the organization,

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what is a really high-performing
leadership team,

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where would I like to evolve the culture
of the organization.

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I think these are universal and that's
what CEOs and the public sector

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appreciate as well.

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Yes, thank you so much.

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Thanks a lot for sharing your insights
and I wish you a wonderful,

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successful last day here at Davos.

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Same to you.

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Thank you.