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Pivot Global Partners and invited experts examine the leadership and enterprise questions shaping organizations today. Our perspectives connect ideas with responsibility, decisions, and practical action.
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Perspectives may take different forms: articles, interviews, videos, podcasts, external publications, and conversations with experienced leaders and experts.
AI Transformation: How to Recognize and Solve for the Gaps
A practical examination of the organizational gaps that prevent AI initiatives from delivering expected value — and how leaders can address them.
AI Transformation: Are You Scaling Capabilities or Dysfunction with AI?
Before scaling AI, leaders must ask whether they are amplifying organizational strength or embedding existing dysfunction at greater speed.
Closing the Leadership Gap in Nonprofits
Nonprofit leaders face a distinct set of pressures. This perspective examines the leadership gaps most likely to limit mission and how to address them.
Leading Digital Disruption
Digital disruption is not primarily a technology challenge. It is a leadership challenge that requires clarity, alignment, and the ability to move an organization.
Retooling Traditional Leadership Development
Traditional leadership development programs often miss the conditions that actually shape how leaders perform. A different approach is required.
Scaling Innovation with Smart Systems
Innovation at scale requires more than ideas. It requires systems, governance, and leadership capable of moving from concept to sustained organizational capability.
Measuring What Matters
Organizations often measure what is easy rather than what is important. This perspective examines how to connect measurement with the outcomes that actually matter.
Talent Acquisition in the Age of Agentic AI
Agentic AI is changing what organizations need from talent — and how they find, develop, and retain it. Leaders must rethink their approach.
Getting Unstuck
Leaders and organizations get stuck for identifiable reasons. Recognizing the pattern is the first step toward restoring momentum and direction.
Future-Ready Leadership
What does it mean to be ready for what comes next? This perspective examines the capabilities leaders need to navigate consequential change.
Crossing Meridians by Cynthia Hardy
Cynthia Hardy introduces Crossing Meridians® — a framework born from her personal and corporate journey — and walks through how leaders can move from discovery through sustained action to build a better life and organization.
Thrive: Turning Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage — Cynthia Hardy
Meridith Elliott Powell interviews Cynthia Hardy on how leaders and organizations can turn uncertainty into a strategic edge — and what it takes to not just survive disruption, but thrive through it.
Crossing Meridians: Cynthia Hardy on Discovery, Action, and the Journey to a Better Life
Cynthia Hardy shares the personal and corporate journey behind Crossing Meridians® — a framework moving through discovery, planning, acting, sustaining, and repeating — and why the people and process side of transformation matters most.
Fay Cobb Payton Speaks about the Emotions Fueling AI
Dr. Fay Cobb Payton joins the Nuance Podcast to examine how emotion, intuition, and nuance shape the way AI sees us — and what it might miss — when the smallest data points tell the biggest stories.
Leadership Expert Cynthia Hardy Advises on Boss Moves in Business
Cynthia Hardy joins the Underground Magnolia Podcast to discuss how to excel in business — especially for Black women, women, and people of color — and what it takes to lead with clarity and purpose.
Cynthia Hardy, Founder & CEO, Pivot Global Partners — Scaling Up Services
Cynthia Hardy speaks with the Scaling Up Services podcast about navigating from early beginnings to leading a multi-billion dollar global operation — and what she learned about leadership along the way. Episode 203.
Cynthia Hardy, CEO & Founder of Pivot Global Partners — Profiles in Risk
Cynthia Hardy joins the Profiles in Risk podcast (PIR 228) for a wide-ranging conversation on diversity, equity and inclusion, her book Crossing Meridians, and what it means to lead through disruption.
3 Ways Apple Intelligence and Embedded AI Will Transform Daily Life
Dr. Fay Cobb Payton examines the embedded AI era ushered in by Apple Intelligence — exploring how platform intelligence is reshaping daily life, what it means for human thinking and creativity, and why transparency, accountability, and ethical AI governance are now non-negotiable.
AAAS Policy Forum: AI Breakthroughs, Challenges and Calls to Action
Experts from industry, academia, and government convene at the 48th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy to examine AI's transformative potential — and its risks. Pivot Global Senior Consultant Dr. Fay Cobb Payton contributes to the panel on embedded AI, cognitive impact, and the imperative for trustworthy systems.
When the Algorithm Hallucinates: Disinformation, Misinformation Results
Dr. Fay Cobb Payton examines what happens when AI systems produce false or misleading outputs — and what leaders and organizations must understand about the risks of algorithmic hallucination.
The Visionary: Cynthia Hardy
Notre Dame Law School profiles Cynthia Hardy '90 J.D. — from a housing development in Meridian, Mississippi, to Global Head of Agency at AIG and Founder of Pivot Global Partners.
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