How to Grow & Thrive in an Evolving Business Landscape SurveyMonkey CEO shares how he's embraced change over his 20-plus year career

In the ever-evolving business landscape, it is important to embrace change to grow and thrive. In the next episode of our Leadership Lessons series, Comparably CEO Jason Nazar speaks to a leader who has changed the businesses he touched for the better in this constantly-changing global marketplace, SurveyMonkey (NASDAQ: SVMK) CEO Zander Lurie. A leader in agile software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback, SurveyMonkey empowers over 20 million active users from more than 345,000 organizations to analyze and act on this feedback to deliver better customer experiences, increase employee retention and unlock growth and innovation. With total revenue at $102.3 million in Q1 of 2021, an increase of 16 percent year-over-year, the San Francisco-based business employs approximately 1,500 people in multiple offices in the U.S. and globally (Ottawa, Dublin, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Sydney, and a growing number of fully remote employees). In addition to Lurie sharing the most valuable lessons he learned over the span of his career -- from his time at JP Morgan leading equity transactions and M&A to his executive roles at GoPro, CBS Corporation, and CNET -- other topics include:

• Digital transformation and data-driven analytics
• The keys to making tough decisions under pressure
• Empathy and agility in leadership
• Throwing out the old playbook in a post-pandemic world
• Advocating for diversity, equity, inclusion 
• Boosting employee morale in a hybrid work environment