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Professional services faces its first major workforce cuts since 2009. PwC eliminated 3,300 roles. Deloitte slashed over 1,200 advisory positions. McKinsey openly admits their AI platform now handles "armies of business analysts creating PowerPoints." If you're a partner, director, or principal at a consulting firm, the pyramid that built your career just lost its base. This isn't about junior analysts anymore - EY is cutting partners. This guide applies the PURPOSE AUDIT™ framework specifically to consulting professionals, examines the four career paths available, and provides the uncomfortable math on timelines and financial runway. The question isn't whether consulting changes - it's whether you're leading that change in your own career.

Sixty-seven percent of General Counsels say they're open to using generative AI - but only 15 percent feel prepared to manage its risks. That gap captures the central challenge facing legal leadership today. While you've spent your career assessing risk for others, have you applied that same rigor to your own career trajectory? This guide cuts through the noise about AI in legal to focus on what matters most: what this transformation means for YOUR career as a General Counsel, which parts of your expertise remain irreplaceable, and how to position yourself for what comes next.

Technology leaders face a unique paradox - the domain expertise that makes you valuable is the same expertise that reveals your vulnerability. While CFOs can maintain distance from AI's technical reality, CTOs understand exactly what's coming. This article applies the PURPOSE AUDIT™ framework specifically to technology executives, distinguishing between infrastructure work (increasingly automated) and innovation leadership (irreplaceable). Discover the four career paths available to CTOs, understand the gap between technical and executive AI fluency, and build your 90-day action plan.

Sixty-five percent of CMOs expect AI to dramatically transform their role within two years. But while every marketing conference focuses on AI tools for campaigns, nobody's addressing what this means for marketing leaders' careers. CMO tenure is declining, Fortune 500 representation is dropping, and the "creative director" identity that defined CMO value for decades is being commoditized. This article applies the PURPOSE AUDIT™ framework specifically to marketing leadership - helping CMOs distinguish automatable tasks from irreducible purpose, understand why marketing faces unique pressure, and evaluate four strategic career paths forward. Whether you're considering transforming your current role, pivoting to adjacent positions like Chief Customer Officer, reinventing through board work and fractional leadership, or building a portfolio career, understanding your actual task-to-purpose ratio is the essential first step.

Fifty-four percent of banking jobs face high automation potential - and that's from Citigroup's own analysis. If you're a CFO, that's your peers analyzing your industry. The question is whether you've done the same analysis on yourself. This article applies the PURPOSE AUDIT™ framework to finance leadership, helping CFOs distinguish between the administrative tasks being absorbed and the strategic purposes that remain irreducibly human. It's time to apply your analytical rigor to the career question everyone's avoiding.

If you're a CFO, CMO, CTO, General Counsel, or professional services leader reading aggregate AI disruption statistics and wondering what they mean for your specific role - they probably mean very little. Executive disruption doesn't follow the same rules as workforce automation. This industry-by-industry breakdown maps how AI is transforming each executive function differently, where each sector sits in the disruption timeline, and which frameworks apply to your specific situation. Because knowing your industry is disrupted tells you nothing until you understand how YOUR role within it is changing.