With the help of Alan Fleischmann, founder of the global CEO advisory firm Laurel Strategies, the inaugural Forbes CEO Awards highlight the breakout executives and industries that defined 2020 and will continue to shape business and culture for years to come. Still, our new CEO brings many question marks about his future policies and how the Democratic Party’s progressive wing will influence him. TikTok (led by Vanessa Pappas in the U.S.) shakes up media, culture and global politics. Forbes Forecast: The rise of the global statesperson CEONothing really changes on New Year’s Day. With the U.S. government fractured, deadlocked and indecisive, CEOs will continue to be the vanguard of social, political and economic change.

Source: Forbes December 28, 2020 12:56 UTC