This week Alberto sat down with Viviane Paxinos, former Warner Bros Vice President, former AllBright CEO, and one of the most accomplished growth and transformation executives in media and digital, to unpack a career built on ambition, reinvention, resilience, and the courage to keep moving when things do not go to plan.
Viviane shares how she grew up in a Greek immigrant family in Canada, moved to London on her own, built a remarkable career across Viacom and MTV, BBC Worldwide, A+E Networks, Warner Bros Discovery, UNiDAYS, and AllBright, and then faced one of the hardest leadership chapters of her life under public scrutiny.
In this conversation, she speaks openly about ambition, burnout, public failure, identity, leadership shame, female leadership, fundraising, resilience, and what it really takes to rebuild yourself personally and professionally when a business goes through a painful transformation.
You will learn
• How to build a career across media, tech, and leadership without having everything planned from the start
• What Viviene learned from leading global businesses through growth, transformation, and public failure
• Why women often internalize business struggles more personally, and how to stop doing it
• How to adapt to new industries quickly, even when you are not the obvious expert in the room
• Why success, identity, and self worth should never be tied tightly to your title
• The habits and mindset shifts that helped Viviane recover from stress, burnout, and intense professional pressure
Follow Viviane:
https://www.instagram.com/viv_paxinos/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/viviane-paxinos-378a513/
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