Category: Business

Trust does not arrive quickly in healthcare or defense, two sectors where Justin Fulcher has spent his career and where he has built a reputation for patient, methodical execution rather than flashy announcements or quick wins. He started young. At 21, Fulcher co-founded RingMD in 2013, a telemedicine platform built to connect patients across Asia…

Few executives walk away from a public company boardroom to run a smaller, privately owned business, but Michael Polk did exactly that. After retiring as chief executive of Newell Brands in 2019, he returned to work in 2020 as CEO of Implus LLC, a portfolio company of Berkshire Partners focused on fitness accessories. The decision…

There is no shortage of ambition when federal agencies talk about artificial intelligence. Pilot programs launch, vendors make presentations, and leadership teams endorse modernization roadmaps. What happens next is often less encouraging. Justin Fulcher, who has advised on technology modernization from inside the Department of Defense, has a clear view of why these efforts frequently…

Why Behavioral Health Companies Like Acadia Healthcare Value Experienced Leaders Operator experience counts for a lot in behavioral health. Running facilities well takes real familiarity with clinical care, staffing, and regulation. Acadia Healthcare leaned on that idea in January 2026, when it named Debbie Osteen, a leader with decades in the field, as chief executive.…

The playbook that New York private equity firm 3G Capital has refined over decades is deceptively simple: buy iconic consumer brands, install world-class management, instill cost discipline, and compound value over the long term. The execution, however, requires exceptional skill, judgment, and organizational capability. The transformation of Heinz following 3G’s acquisition with Berkshire Hathaway became…

Talent acquisition in financial services is a competitive undertaking, and Justin Nelson, JP Morgan Managing Director, believes firms are making it harder on themselves by excluding neurodiverse candidates. Nelson leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, where his group manages more than $15 billion in assets.…

Announcements of government AI initiatives often emphasize capability. Justin Fulcher, who has navigated technology modernization from both the private sector and a senior advisory role at the Department of Defense, argues that the focus should be elsewhere. Agencies that prioritize a tool’s features ahead of its fit with existing operations tend to generate pilots that…

The path Dr. Andrew Jacono chose was not accidental. It traces directly to a moment in his childhood when he witnessed how a facial difference could isolate a person from ordinary social life and how surgery could change that. The girl with a cleft lip and palate who rode his school bus became, unknowingly, his…

Genuine confidence — not the performance of confidence but the actual internal conviction that you are capable of handling what is in front of you — is built through evidence. Each challenging situation successfully navigated provides the experiential foundation for greater confidence in the next one; each capability developed expands the range of situations in…

The concept of work-life balance implies a zero-sum competition between professional demands and personal ones — time spent on one necessarily taken from the other. Karl Studer operates with a different framework: that a well-constructed life integrates rather than balances its different demands, and that the separation of professional and personal identities into competing compartments…