Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

COOs Bring the Vision of the CEO to Life | Stephanie Buckner, COO, Altair (Podcast 456)

14 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Stephanie Buckner (COO, Altair) describes her role as translating and executing the CEO's vision into operational reality. She emphasizes diving deep into the CEO's goals, addressing organizational inefficiencies (often people-related), aligning people to the right roles, hiring, and occasionally leading initiatives like technology reorganizations while pursuing her own operational priorities. The excerpt highlights a people-first approach to operations.

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One of the key things my role as the CEO is to basically bring to life the vision of the CEO. So my job is to execute on that vision and that concept. So I need to really understand what they're trying to accomplish. So where I dive deep is sometimes guided by that. Very often my CEO has opinions like the tech reorganization and things like that. Then I have obviously my own adventures that I choose, if you will. I need to be thinking about the operational aspect of the organization and where the inefficiencies are. And often it's about people. It's about having the right people in the right roles, hiring the right people. And so we're a big people first organization, I would say.