Antonio Lucio has lived the glamorous highs of global leadership—but he’s equally candid about its toll.
“Leadership is hard. There is no other way to say it. Things that matter are hard.”
He calls it the “dark side of leadership”: the loneliness of being at the top, the gnawing self-doubt, the fear of failure, and the constant temptation to compromise values for convenience. He determined that resilience doesn’t mean denying these struggles—it means naming them, and building systems of support to withstand them.
“There is strength in vulnerability.”
Antonio fortified resilience through intentional practices:
Resilience is not toughness. It is the ability to sustain leadership by embracing vulnerability, building support systems, and refusing to compromise values. Antonio’s story reminds us that the leaders who last are not the ones who look invincible, but the ones who remain authentic and supported.
“The leaders who last are the ones who accept the weight, but don’t carry it alone.”
Antonio Lucio is the Global Chief Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer at HP, former Global CMO of Visa, HP, and Facebook, and Chairman of the Virtuosi LEAP Advisory Board. He is celebrated for fortifying resilience by naming the hidden struggles of leadership and modeling vulnerability, integrity, and authenticity.