Chief of Staff

Definition: a Chief of Staff is a person who supports the CEO of a large corporation. More senior than an Executive Assistant, they can perform following approximate roles:
- Air traffic controller (for the leader and the executive team).
- Integrator (connecting work streams that would otherwise remain siloed).
- Communicator (linking the leadership team and the broader organization).
- Honest broker and truth teller (when the leader needs a wide-ranging view without turf considerations).
- Confidant (without an organizational agenda).
A CoS acts with an implicit mandate of the CEO. This requires humility, maturity and situational sensitivity.

💡

Learn more about Chief of Staffs.

You may also like: Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, Executive Education, Online MBA.

MBA Brief offers concise, yet precise definitions of concepts, methods and models as taught in a study Master of Business Administration.

We like to keep things short, and provide links to learn more about your subject.

Add MBA Brief to your desktop / iPad