

Influence Beyond the Org Chart
How senior leaders build alignment, trust, and momentum across the enterprise By Contributing Principal Sally Day, Kincannon & Reed Managing Director, Leadership Solutions. Photos courtesy of K&R. (June 9, 2026) Leadership influence is often associated with titles, reporting structures, or formal authority. In reality, some of the most effective leaders operate through influence without authority—building alignment, creating trust, and advancing priorities across complex, cro


Is Agriculture Ready for the Singularity?
By Svitlana Synkovska, Portfolio Director, Women in Agribusiness (June 9, 2026) Like many people, last week I saw countless discussions about Demis Hassabis’s (one of the key architects behind Google’s AI initiatives and a 2024 Nobel Prize winner) recent statement that humanity may already “be standing at the foothills of technological singularity” and that we could be there in 2030, plus or minus a year. In simpler terms, singularity is the point at which we move from AI





