Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #333: Trust is Not Budget - Why your CEO Likes You but Won’t Fund You

Managing Uncertainty

Aug 10 2026 | 00:12:07

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Show Notes

In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser digs into new research on how CEOs really view their marketing leaders. The numbers show trust at a five-year high while 60% of CEOs call the function overhead. Bryan argues resilience leaders live the same contradiction, with an even harder problem: being graded on disasters that didn’t happen. Bryan walks through four moves that convert executive trust into actual funding. Stop reporting risk and start pricing decisions, turn tabletop exercises into an evidence engine, let your sponsor carry findings upward as their own, and sell enterprise outcomes …

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