Beyond the Data: How Leaders See What Others Miss

This conversation examines emerging trends, creator culture, audience expectations, leadership reinvention, and what organizations can learn from the signals people are sending every day.

Storytellers/Beyond the Data: How Leaders See What Others Miss

Staying relevant as a leader means knowing how to interpret the signals audiences send long before they become trends. This conversation with Pinterest Chief Content Officer and ELC Member Malik Ducard explores what it takes to build trust and lead effectively across shifting cultural and technological landscapes, drawing on a career that spans Hollywood, YouTube, and Pinterest.

Key Takeaways:

  • How leaders can interpret emerging signals in creator culture and audience behavior to stay ahead of change.
  • What it takes to build and sustain trust as technology, culture, and audience expectations continue to evolve.
  • How to recognize when a chapter is complete and lead yourself through reinvention and transition.
Malik Ducard
Chief Content Officer
Pinterest

Malik Ducard is Chief Content Officer at Pinterest and a member of The ELC. He joined Pinterest in 2021 as the company’s first Chief Content Officer, leading content strategy, creator vision, and relationships with the creator community.

Before Pinterest, Malik spent more than a decade at YouTube, where he held senior leadership roles across content partnerships, learning, social impact, kids and family, health, and human rights and racial justice. He also helped create the $100 million #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund.

Earlier in his career, Malik worked across entertainment, including roles at MGM, Lionsgate, and Paramount. His career has consistently sat at the intersection of creativity, technology, content, culture, and audience behavior.

He is also the author of the children’s book Henry’s Big Win, winner of the 2015 Jessie Redmon Fauset Award for Best Children’s Book.

Michael C. Hyter
President and CEO
The Executive Leadership Council (ELC)

Michael C. Hyter is President and CEO of The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), an independent non-profit founded in 1986 that opens channels of opportunity for the development of global executives to positively impact business and our communities.

An accomplished senior executive, leadership consultant, author and thought leader, Hyter is widely known for his success in developing enterprise leaders and their next generation successors. For more than 25 years, Hyter has served as a trusted advisor to senior leaders in a variety of industries. He brings a wealth of leadership experience to The ELC in the areas of CEO succession, chief executive and executive to leadership development, and strategic Diversity and Inclusion consulting.

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