Ep. 1: The Foreword | Darrell West, The Brookings Institution, on CEO Reinvention. Read by Joe Nickolls, CEO and veteran of the interactive entertainment industry

To launch this series, we’re starting with the foreword to my book AfterShock to 2030: A CEO’s Guide to Reinvention in the Age of AI, Climate, and Societal Collapse. The foreword was written by Darrell West of Brookings, someone who’s been tracking the intersection of policy, leadership and technology for decades.I asked Joe Nickolls, a seasoned CEO in interactive entertainment industry, to read it aloud. As you’ll hear, his voice brings depth to Darrell’s framing and power to the urgent leadership themes my book and this podcast will explore.