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The Day in the Life of a CEO, from Fortune Success: Go inside the daily routines of high-performers—how they manage work and life, switch off, and stay at the top of their game.
SuccessBurned out in 2025? Here’s how CEOs switch off from the big job
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJanuary 2, 2025
SuccessBillionaire chipmaker CEO Lisa Su holds meetings on weekends and sends feedback after midnight: ‘I don’t believe leaders are born. I believe leaders are trained’ 
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 17, 2024
SuccessRodial founder launched the $32 million beauty giant after getting sacked from her banking job—now she spends weekends in ‘the Hamptons of the U.K.’
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 24, 2024
LeadershipThe millennial CEO behind Britain’s first compostable coffee pod unwinds by sitting in his infrared sauna after work
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 10, 2024
Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel
SuccessWhole Foods Market’s 46-year-old CEO works out twice a day and ‘fully uses up’ his PTO. His keys to work-life balance
By Mahnoor KhanJuly 30, 2024
LeadershipThird Space’s CEO follows an 80/20 rule for eating out, competes in triathlons at 54-years-old and made startup investments he regrets
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 16, 2024
SuccessWingstop’s U.K. millennial chief walks to work from his Hampstead Heath apartment and has $25 lunches from London’s hottest luxury gym
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 2, 2024
Success30-year-old banker quit $100,000 job to start a healthy fast food chain because he had no work-life balance—but being his own boss was more work and he even cut short his honeymoon
By Orianna Rosa RoyleApril 6, 2024
SuccessNeiman Marcus’s CEO starts his day with a cup of tea and writes thank you notes every night. Here’s his daily routine
By Payton KirolNovember 19, 2023
SuccessThe co-founder of ScaleAI jet sets on 24-hour trips and jumps out of planes, but never stops working. Here is her daily routine
By Payton KirolSeptember 17, 2023
Nespresso CEO standing cross armed
HealthNespresso’s U.K. CEO doesn’t believe work-life balance is possible at the top—instead she aims for work-life fluidity
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 5, 2023
SuccessReddit boss’s routine includes an ice bath, workout and 6 p.m. family dinner—but he hasn’t always considered work-life balance and used to be in perpetual ‘CEO mode’
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 19, 2023
Photo of Damola Adamolekun
SuccessThe 34-year-old CEO of P.F. Chang’s wakes up at 4 a.m. and runs 8 miles every day. Here’s the Wall Street wunderkind’s daily routine
By Payton KirolMay 21, 2023
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