About this episode

Viviane Paxinos discusses her career journey and the challenges of rebuilding oneself after public failure.

This week Alberto sat down with Viviane Paxinos, former Warner Bros Vice President, former AllBright CEO, and one of the most accomplished growth and transformation executives in media and digital, to unpack a career built on ambition, reinvention, resilience, and the courage to keep moving when things do not go to plan. Viviane shares how she grew up in a Greek immigrant family in Canada, moved to London on her own, built a remarkable career across Viacom and MTV, BBC Worldwide, A+E Networks, Warner Bros Discovery, UNiDAYS, and AllBright, and then faced one of the hardest leadership chapters of her life under public scrutiny. In this conversation, she speaks openly about ambition, burnout, public failure, identity, leadership shame, female leadership, fundraising, resilience, and what it really takes to rebuild yourself personally and professionally when a business goes through a painful transformation. You will learn • How to build a career across media, tech, and leadership without having everything planned from the start • What Viviene learned from leading global businesses through growth, transformation, and public failure • Why women often internalize business struggles…

People in this episode

Host: Alberto Zandi

Guest: Viviane Paxinos

Topics covered

• career growth
• resilience
• female leadership
• burnout
• public failure
• transformation

Keywords

• leadership
• identity
• fundraising
• stress recovery
• ambition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Warner Bros, AllBright, Viacom, MTV, BBC Worldwide, A+E Networks, UNiDAYS

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