business leaders
Company top brass
Business leaders are people who hold senior positions in companies and corporations—CEOs, executives, founders, and board members.
The term appears constantly in news coverage and policy discussions, often treating these figures as a coherent group with shared interests: Business leaders expressed concern over the proposed regulations.
The phrase carries an implicit authority, suggesting people whose opinions on economic matters deserve weight.
- CEOTop corporate officer
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- executive suiteSenior management's office space
- baronsTitled nobles, lowest rank
- directorOne who leads
innovator · president · Fortune 500 · power brokers · chairperson · titans · captain of industry · visionary · thought leader · entrepreneur · tycoons · industrialist · decision-maker · magnate · strategist · founder · risk-taker · mogul
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, writers, scientists, musicians
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates
- Armenian figures
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- American IconsAbraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr.
business leaderssubordinates
Those ranked below
junior staff · hourly workers · grunts · temps · interns
business leadersgovernment officials
State-employed administrators
public servants · civil servants · bureaucrats · politicians · military commanders
business leaderslabor
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
labor leaders · union organizers · working class · union representatives · workers