Caroline Stokes has been providing executive coaching and other consulting services to executives in gaming and other industries for decades.
She just published a new book, AfterShock to 2030: A CEO’s Guide to Reinvention in the Age of AI, Climate, and Societal Collapse.
She wrote the book as a guide for CEOs as they navigate the collision of AI, entertainment and societal reinvention and what leadership must look like in the 5th Industrial Revolution. Listen to her podcast with me on Spotify here.
Stokes believes that CEOs have to be prepared to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances of a post-pandemic world in geopolitical turmoil, technological change and climate challenges. She see us in a state of polycrisis, or multiple crises happening at the same time where business leaders can no longer maintain the status quo.
From now until 2030, CEOs will be expected to lead the reinvention and reskilling in this volatile new reality.
Caroline Stokes, author of Elephants Before Unicorns and founder of Workplace EQ, delivers a bold new guide for CEOs, founders, and aspiring changemakers who refuse to wait for the future to overtake them. Blending neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and systems thinking with urgent global trends, AfterShock to 2030 explores:
- How to kickstart your company’s transformation in 100 days
- How to develop adaptive intelligence to avoid obsolescence and thrive
- Why trauma-informed leadership is essential for sustainable innovation
- How to integrate emotionally intelligent AI into rapid decision-making across your organization
- What “Catalyst-Citizen” leadership means in a post-growth economy
- How to rethink resilience, reinvention, and responsibility in real time
From working on the launch of the Sony PlayStation, followed by dotcom roles in the 2000s, through to running B2B consultancies, Stokes brings more than 30 years’ international experience as a leader and certified executive coach in the technology, media and entertainment sectors and beyond.
Her clients have come from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, EA, Sony, Disney, BBC, AbbVie, Autodesk, RealNetworks, and more.
Stokes is also the author of Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company (Entrepreneur Press, 2019) and contributed to the HBR Guide to Navigating a Toxic Workplace (Harvard Business Press, 2024), Coach Me! (Wiley, 2022), and Entrepreneur Voices on Careers, (Entrepreneur Press, 2019).