Leadership Next

Diane Brady and Kristin Stoller recap the year’s defining themes on Leadership Next - from CEO wellness and “leaders as athletes,” to AI-driven org redesign at companies like Corning, Gen Z’s reshaping of work and marketing, and a look ahead to 2026 with a focus on purpose, people, and measurable impact.

Expedia Group’s CEO Ariane Gorin joins Fortune’s Diane Brady and Kristin Stoller for a deep dive on the technology, trends, and economic realities shaping travel today. Ariane explains how AI is already changing the way we vacation, how the company is trying to help visitors discover “off the beaten path” cities, and why taking a job no one wanted was critical to her success at Expedia.

Dani Richa is the Chairman and Group CEO of Impact BBDO, the famed ad agency that partly inspired Matt Weiner’s classic show Mad Men. Dani joins Diane Brady and Kristin Stoller On Leadership Next to talk about the night he spent watching ads from all over the world, his favorite campaigns, the project he killed, and advertising successfully in MENA. Of course, it wouldn’t be a 2025 conversation without talking about AI and Dani dives in to discuss why ignoring AI tools would be a “missed opportunity,” while still believing that only humans “can do what’s never been done before.”

Circle, one of the world’s largest issuers of stablecoin, went public in June 2025, breaking new ground as the first U.S. stablecoin issuer to do so. Circle issues the world’s second largest dollar-backed stablecoin, USDC, and largest euro-backed stablecoin, EURC. Chairman and CEO of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, spoke to Fortune’s executive editorial director Diane Brady and editorial director Kristin Stoller about the digital currency and how he sees the future of crypto. In this episode of Leadership Next, they discuss why Allaire is lobbying for government regulation of stablecoin and why he says there needs to be global policy change to meet the new internet financial system.

Alexis Ohanian is a tech entrepreneur and investor whose enterprises have shaped the internet as we know it. He co-founded Reddit and, as an investor, has backed household names like Coinbase, Hubspot, and Patreon, among others. He is the Founder and General Partner of Seven Seven Six, an early stage venture capital firm. Now he’s reshaping the world of women’s sports. In 2020, he co-founded the NWSL Los Angeles expansion team, Angel City, and this past May he bought an eight percent stake in Chelsea Women. 

He joined Leadership Next to talk about investing in women’s sports, why he and his all-star wife, Serena Williams don’t work together, and why the next wave of technology will focus on human community.