Argonauts Insights

A prelude to the launch of our new COMMS Series — Initial perspectives Two weeks out from the launch of our new Comms Series, the headlines keep making our point for us. Reputation crises are hitting the front pages of the AFR, the SMH and The Age more often, and faster, than ever before. On 12 August, at CBD Gallery in Sydney, three leaders who have sat inside these moments — in government, in the C-suite and in the room where the advice is actually given — will tell us what

Why who you are as a Leader matters more than what you know The room at HAVAS Village on the evening of 3 June 2026 had already given us two powerful ideas — that staying still is a risk, and that AI is an amplifier rather than a replacement. But there was a third insight waiting, and it came not from the data, but from the stories. The stories of how these leaders had become who they are. And what emerged, across three very different careers, was something that no survey can

What Australia's Top CEOs Are Actually Losing Sleep Over Hard to be in the CEO seat these days! The room at HAVAS Village on the evening of 3 June 2026 had the charge of a conversation that mattered. Eighty-five of Australia's most senior leaders had gathered not to hear what they already knew, but to be confronted by what they didn't - and by what, in the quiet of their own organisations, was keeping them awake at night. The Danger of the Comfort Zone If there was a single w

What 85 C-suite leaders discovered at the Argonauts CEO Survey 2026 launch — and why the most important finding wasn't about technology at all. There is a paradox at the heart of the AI era that Australia's most senior leaders are only beginning to reckon with — and it surfaced, with striking clarity, in the room at HAVAS Village on the evening of 3 June. The CEO Survey 2026, developed by The Argonauts Series and launched before an audience of 85 C-suite leaders in The Rocks,