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C-Suite Unscripted with Maggie McGrath

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C-Suite Unscripted is your backstage pass to the corner offices of the world’s most influential companies. Join Forbes’ Maggie McGrath as she deconstructs the playbooks of prolific leaders and founders. From navigating market volatility to scaling AI-native cultures, C-Suite Unscripted goes beyond the talking points to reveal how the world’s top executives build, lead and stay ahead of the curve.

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Yesterday · 36 min
101 Years, Zero Layoffs: Inside The Torani Playbook With CEO Melanie Dulbecco
Forbes’ Maggie McGrath sits down with Melanie Dulbecco, the long-time CEO of Torani, a 101-year-old flavored syrup company. Under Dulbecco’s leadership, Torani has achieved an impressive 20% average annual growth for 35 years and is knocking on the door of $1 billion in revenue—all without a single layoff in the company’s history, even through the financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 21 · 36 min
Consumer Spending Isn't Matching Economic Anxiety. Here's What Bank Of America’s Data Tells Us
What does it take to manage the daily financial needs of 70 million Americans? In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Holly O'Neill, President, Consumer, Retail and Preferred of Bank of America. They dive into the real health of the 2026 consumer, unpacking the fascinating disconnect between economic anxiety and actual spending behavior. Holly also shares an inside look at how Bank of America is adopting AI, the evolution of their virtual assistant 'Erica,' and why the "Great Wealth Transfer" makes financial education more critical than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 14 · 33 min
How Rothy's Became A $1 Billion Brand Without Compromising Sustainable Practices
How do you take a digitally native darling and scale it into a global, omnichannel powerhouse? In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Dayna Quanbeck, CEO of Rothy’s. Dayna pulls back the curtain on the brand’s massive growth, their cutting-edge manufacturing process (including a shoe made entirely without glue), and why the future of retail is a balance of clicks and bricks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 7 · 41 min
Bridging The Labor Gap: How Upwardly Global Is Transforming the Economy
In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Gregory Haile, the CEO of Upwardly Global, to discuss how his organization is connecting companies and hospitals with an incredible pool of untapped human capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 30 · 31 min
The Psychology Of Retirement: Why We Hoard Our Savings (And How To Stop)
Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with personal finance expert and HerMoney founder Jean Chatzky to discuss her new book, The Forever Paycheck. Chatzky dives into the behavioral psychology behind why retirees are often paralyzed by the fear of spending their hard-earned savings and sharing practical strategies to build a guaranteed stream of income for life. Beyond retirement advice, Chatzky reflects on her own unconventional career journey—from skipping out on an MBA to learn Wall Street basics, to her 25-year run on The Today Show—and shares how her company continues to help women build confidence through financial literacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 23 · 34 min
Preparing For The ‘Silver Tsunami’: Sage CTO On The Future Of Elder Care In America
Forbes’ Maggie McGrath sits down with Matt Lynch, CTO and co-founder of Sage, a care intelligence platform designed for senior living and skilled nursing facilities. Lynch discusses the impending "silver tsunami"—with 77 million baby boomers aging into a system facing a shortage of 1.8 million caregivers—and the personal family experiences that inspired him to tackle the problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 16 · 43 min
How GeneDx Is Shrinking Rare Disease Diagnosis From Years To Days
GeneDx Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Bryan Dechairo joined host Maggie McGrath to discuss the company's mission to drastically shorten the "diagnostic odyssey" for children with rare diseases. While it currently takes an average of five years for families to get an accurate diagnosis, GeneDx is leveraging a new digital telehealth platform to connect parents and pediatricians with genomic testing in a matter of days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 9 · 42 min
He Built A $4 Billion Data Protection Unicorn—Here’s Why He Thinks AI Is The Next Dot-Com Bubble
Forbes' Maggie McGrath is joined in the studio by serial entrepreneur Ofir Ehrlich to discuss his latest venture, Eon. Valued at $4 billion with over $500 million in funding, Eon is quietly building the critical data infrastructure that powers everyone from traditional enterprises like Chick-fil-A to modern tech giants like SoFi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 2 · 33 min
How Thomson Reuters Uses AI To Simplify Complex Legal Work
Thomson Reuters President and CEO Steve Hasker sits down with Forbes to discuss how AI is shaping legal and tax technology. Hasker also discusses token cost management and internal employee AI adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 2 · 37 min
How AI Tools Are Helping Free Up Critical 911 Resources
Chief Technology Officer Zach LaValley sat down with Forbes to discuss AI solutions for public safety departments and modernizing emergency response systems. LaValley also discussed RapidSOS's partnerships with tech companies like Apple and Google, and the challenges of building trust and modernizing technology in public safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 26 · 34 min
Inside The Tech Strategy Of An American Top Law Firm: Crowell & Moring
In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, Forbes' Maggie McGrath chats with Andrea Markstrom, Chief Information Officer at the law firm Crowell & Moring, to discuss the rapidly evolving role of technology in the legal industry. Markstrom shares her insights on navigating the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, mitigating the risks of AI hallucinations in legal work, and why keeping a "human in the loop" remains non-negotiable. She also details her unconventional career path from an aspiring dancer to a C-suite executive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 19 · 37 min
How Tribe AI’s CTO Uses Agents To Scale Leadership & Build Lean Teams
In this episode of Forbes C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Puja Brown, the newly appointed CTO of Tribe AI. Puja shares how her company is stepping between frontier models and Fortune 1000 enterprises to turn raw AI capabilities into tangible business outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 17 · 32 min
Hearst CIO Talks Artificial Intelligence, Tech Leadership & The Company’s OpenAI Partnership
What does it take to lead technology at some of the world’s most complex organizations? Atefeh "Atti" Riazi, Chief Information Officer at Hearst, sits down with Forbes’ Maggie McGrath to discuss her vast career journey—from spearheading the rollout of the New York City MetroCard and running cyber-peacekeeping at the United Nations, to navigating the COVID-19 pandemic at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Riazi offers a profound perspective on the current AI boom, and she also discusses Hearst’s partnership with OpenAI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 27 · 33 min
He Hacked His CEO’s Email To Prove A Point And It Created A $1 Billion Business
Can AI handle the complexities of human emotion? Gijo Mathew, Chief Product Officer at Spring Health, joins Forbes editor Maggie McGrath to discuss the "promises and perils" of AI in mental healthcare. As the industry grapples with allegations of AI-induced tragedies, Spring Health is leading the charge by open-sourcing a new safety standard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 24 · 34 min
Meet The Founder Disrupting The $1 Trillion Steel Market
Maggie McGrath sits down with Laureen Meroueh, the PhD engineer and founder of Hertha Metals looking to reinvent how steel is made for the first time since 1850. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 24 · 41 min
How sunday Became A Restaurant Fintech Unicorn By Killing The Paper Check
What if a QR code could solve the most annoying part of dining out: waiting for the check? In this episode of Forbes' C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits with Christine de Wendel, co-founder and CEO of sunday. Launched just five years ago, sunday has disrupted the POS system and revolutionized the restaurant checkout experience, processing over $5 billion in transactions by allowing guests to pay their bills in seconds from their phones, and enabling restaurants to turn tables faster than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 17 · 34 min
Deel Co-Founder Shuo Wang On Scaling A Modern Tech Unicorn
In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Shuo Wang, the billionaire co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Deel, to break down the playbook behind one of the fastest-growing tech companies in history. Wang shares her remarkable journey from moving to the U.S. at 16 and running a local flea market stall to studying mechanical engineering and robotics at MIT. She pulls back the curtain on how Deel rapidly scaled past $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue, revealing how they pivot effectively, manage an entirely distributed global workforce via Slack, and deploy thousands of Claude licenses to empower internal teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 10 · 41 min
Kalshi: How The World's Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire Built A Trading Empire
At just 30 years-old, Luana Lopes Lara has achieved what most founders only dream of: she is the world's youngest female self-made billionaire and the cofounder of Kalshi, a regulated prediction market platform that is currently seeing up to $4 billion in trading volume a week. In this episode hosted by Maggie McGrath, she explains the pivotal moment the company decided to sue the U.S. government to legalize election betting (and won), how her grueling training as a Bolshoi ballerina prepared her for the intense, grueling hours of startup life and why the platform is now aggressively expanding into perpetual futures to disrupt traditional finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 3 · 38 min
How Saatva's CEO Bootstrapped A $600M Luxury Mattress Empire
How do you build a $600 million business in a crowded market without giving up control of your company? Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Ron Rudzin, Founder and CEO of Saatva, to discuss how he bootstrapped a luxury e-commerce mattress brand with just $350,000. Rudzin breaks down his contrarian business playbook: why he flat-out rejected the "bed in a box" craze, how he successfully expanded into highly profitable brick-and-mortar "viewing rooms," and why he decided to vertically integrate his U.S. manufacturing. Rudzin also reveals the strategy behind Saatva's massive sponsorship for the upcoming LA 2028 Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 30 · 34 min
Automate The Mundane, Elevate The Human: Inside Publicis Sapient's AI Strategy
Are you implementing AI to solve a problem, or just adding technology to a broken workflow? Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Teresa Barreira, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Publicis Sapient, to discuss the dangers of committing "random acts of AI." Teresa shares how her team successfully automated 80% of their daily tasks by building over 100 custom AI assistants—allowing her workforce to focus on the 20% of high-value work that only humans can do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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