About Executives Diary
The magazine where senior leaders read each other.
A US-based global magazine that tells the career stories of senior leaders: what they built, what they learned, and the decisions that shaped them.
Executives Diary is headquartered in Delaware and has published more than 1,000 features on leaders across 20+ countries, spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.
We write about people, not companies. Our features cover founders, executives, senior operators and leaders of organizations of every kind, because leadership does not belong to one industry, one sector or one country.
Why we exist
Most media covers the same few hundred names. The billionaire founder, the household-name CEO, the person on this year's list. Their stories are interesting, but they are rarely useful to someone leading a team of forty, running a hospital department, building a firm from scratch, or holding an organization together through a hard year.
The leaders with the most applicable wisdom are the ones too busy leading to chase coverage. Their stories go untold, and when they retire or move on, everything they learned goes with them.
Executives Diary exists to preserve it.
A leader's story should be readable by their peers, the people they mentor, and the generation that comes after them, wherever in the world they are and without a paywall in the way.
What we publish
Every feature in Executives Diary is written by our editorial team from a direct conversation with the leader. We do not run press releases, sponsored posts or self-submitted articles. Each piece is a long-form editorial feature or biography built around the specific decisions, mistakes and lessons that another leader can actually use.
Once published, a feature stays online permanently and is indexed for the leader's name. It is a lasting record of a career, not content that expires when the news cycle moves on.
Who reads Executives Diary
Our readers are senior leaders themselves: founders, C-suite executives, vice presidents, board members, investors, executive search professionals and senior operators across every sector and region. They read the magazine to learn from peers in similar roles, to discover people worth knowing, and to find the kind of practical insight that does not make it into keynotes.
That is what makes Executives Diary different from a blog or a directory. When a leader is featured here, the people reading their story are the people who understand it.
Featuring on Executives Diary is free
We do not charge to write or publish a feature. Who gets featured is an editorial decision, and it cannot be bought. If our editors select a leader, we research, interview, write, revise and publish their feature at no cost, and nothing in that process is influenced by money.
Your feature is free. How far it travels is up to you.
Always free, for every leader we select
- Research and a direct interview with our editors
- A long-form feature written by our editorial team
- Revisions and your approval before anything goes live
- Permanent publication, indexed for your name
Optional, only after publication
- Promotion from the Executives Diary LinkedIn page
- Featured placement in our newsletter
- Paid campaigns aimed at a wider or more targeted audience
Promotional packages sit entirely after publication. They change how far a feature travels, never whether it is written or what it says.
Editorial standards
Where we are going
By 2030, the magazine that operators around the world are known to read.
The place where the people actually running organizations go to learn from each other. To get there, we reinvest a share of our profit into a dedicated research and development function that improves how we find, tell and preserve these stories.Our leadership
Editorial enquiries and feature nominations: editorial@executivesdiary.com
Executives Diary Inc. is registered in Delaware, United States.