Executive Careers with Fexingo · 2026-07-11 · 8 min
Episode 107 of Executive Careers with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna introduce a practical framework for managing career risk - borrowing concepts from portfolio theory. They break down how senior leaders can categorize risks into three buckets: market risk (industry downturns, M&A disruption), execution risk (performance gaps, team failures), and personal risk (health, reputation, burnout). Using the example of a fictional VP of Product at a SaaS company considering a jump to a hot AI startup, they walk through assessing probability, impact, and mitigation strategies. Lucas shares a specific technique: the Risk Heat Map Exercise - a quarterly 30-minute self-audit where leaders list their top five career risks, score them on likelihood and severity, and plan one concrete hedge per risk. Luna pushes back on whether this overcomplicates intuition, and Lucas reframes it as disciplined pattern recognition. The episode closes with a quick genuine pitch for listener support at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo.
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