Adam Bryant joined The ExCo Group, a senior leadership development and executive mentoring firm, as managing director in 2017 after a 30-year career in journalism, including 18 years at The New York Times. In addition to his many roles there as a reporter and editor, he created the weekly "Corner Office" column, and interviewed more than 500 CEOs and other leaders over a decade. He has written four books based on the themes that emerged from Corner Office and from his current, widely followed interview series on LinkedIn with board directors, CEOs and CHROs. His latest book, "The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership,” was published in July by Harvard Business Review Press. Adam is senior advisor to both HR50 (part of World50) and the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia University.