The CEO Signal

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When the business world moves, these are the leaders making the decisions that shape it. The CEO Signal is a new show hosted by Penny Pritzker — investor, business builder, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce — and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Semafor’s CEO Editor. Episodes are released every two weeks. Building on The CEO Signal newsletter, read by the world’s top chief executives, the show brings that perspective to candid conversations with the leaders running the world’s biggest companies. The CEO Signal is presented by PwC.

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The CEO Signal

Episodes (7)

May 28th Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on AI transformation, hard decisions, and leading at speed
May 14th Allstate CEO Tom Wilson on trust, purpose and why CEOs should speak up
Apr 30th Dan Schulman, Verizon CEO, on AI, layoffs and punching back

The CEO Signal

May 28, 2026
44 minutes
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In this episode of The CEO Signal, Chuck Robbins talks about the people decisions behind a transformation as sweeping as Cisco's repositioning for the age of AI. He says executives need to “disagree and commit,” but warns that CEOs shouldn't tolerate people who aren't on board with the strategy. “The one thing that is like death in an organization is passive aggressive behavior,” he says. Hosted by Penny Pritzker and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, the conversation explores how Robbins has pushed Cisco beyond its traditional networking hardware roots toward software, security, recurring revenue and the infrastructure behind AI. He describe...

The CEO Signal

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on AI transformation, hard decisions, and leading at speed

Semafor Podcasts

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