Everyone's a CXO for 15 Minutes

I have a pet peeve in that every role within every organization fancies the need for there to be a CXO of that role. I don't know how many CXOs is too many to spoil the broth, but it's a smaller number than those that exist. I'm collecting all the CXO roles, with a focus on new and exciting ones, because I'm idly curious to see how high a number I can grow that to. If I find any relevant websites or professional associations, I'll add them. 

I recognize that some of these titles are...let's say unique to a particular organization or circumstances. I also recognize that there is overlap in some of them and/or that some of them are quite specific for some reason - e.g., the multiple different Chief AI roles listed below. Doesn't matter - someone signed off on those as titles. 

Food for thought: 
  • How many CXOs is too many? 
  • What's the right ratio of CXOs to, well, everyone else in an organization? 
  • If a CXO reports to another CXO that's not the CEO, is that CXO really a CXO, or is it just a VP with a sexier title?
Current CXO count: 196 as of 4/26/2024
  1. Chief Academic Officer - seen in news story 9/9/2023, https://www.acao.org/
  2. Chief Acceleration Officer - seen on Twitter 3/29/2022
  3. Chief Accounting Officer - seen in a story about Tesla on 8/7/2023
  4. Chief Administrative Officer
  5. Chief AI Chat Data Scientist - seen on Twitter 10/22/2023
  6. Chief AI Ethics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/2/2024
  7. Chief AI Officer - seen on LinkedIn 6/13/2023
  8. Chief Amazement Officer - seen on Twitter, most recently on 2/7/2022
  9. Chief Analytics Officer
  10. Chief Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/7/2024
  11. Chief Audit Executive - LinkedIn, 8/3/2022
  12. Chief Automation Officer - 8/25/2022, https://venturebeat.com/automation/the-emergence-of-the-chief-automation-officer/
  13. Chief Behavioral Officer
  14. Chief Brand Officer
  15. Chief Brand Engagement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023 
  16. Chief Budget Officer
  17. Chief Business Development Officer
  18. Chief Business Officer
  19. Chief Business & Product Officer - someone's current job title on LinkedIn 8/12/2023
  20. Chief Candy Officer - https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/love-candy-heres-the-job-for-you-5930866/
  21. Chief Cheerleader
  22. Chief Claims Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/26/2023
  23. Chief Client Services Officer - UCE received 9/7/2023
  24. Chief Cloud Officer
  25. Chief Coffee Orderer
  26. Chief Commercial Officer
  27. Chief Communications Officer
  28. Chief Compliance Officer
  29. Chief Connectivity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/19/2021
  30. Chief Consulting Officer - seen on LinkedIn as job title 2/18/2024
  31. Chief Content Officer
  32. Chief Corporate Affairs Officer - heard in news story 10/13/2023
  33. Chief Corporate Citizenship Officer - saw LinkedIn post by someone with that title 2/1/2024
  34. Chief Course Artisan - seen on LinkedIn 4/12/2023
  35. Chief Creative Officer
  36. Chief Culture Officer - seen on LinkedIn post by someone with that title 12/26/2023
  37. Chief Customer Officer - http://www.ccocouncil.org/
  38. Chief Customer and Innovation Officer - seen on LinkedIn promotion announcement 7/31/2023
  39. Chief Data and Analytics Officer - seen on LinkedIn 2/15/2022
  40. Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
  41. Chief Data & Trust officer - 8/3/2022
  42. Chief Data Governance and Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022; embraced by Gartner 
  43. Chief Data Officer
  44. Chief Decision Scientist, job title seen on LinkedIn 4/21/2024
  45. Chief Design Officer
  46. Chief Development Officer - seen in a succession announcement on Twitter 1/24/2024
  47. Chief Digital Officer
  48. Chief Digital and Administrative Officer - seen on LinkedIn 10/15/2022
  49. Chief Digital and Information Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/2/2022
  50. Chief Digital Responsibility and Public Policy Officer - 8/3/2022
  51. Chief Digital Risk Officer - 8/3/2022
  52. Chief Digital Service Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/29/2024
  53. Chief Digital Transformation Officer - someone took that role and posted it on LinkedIn 4/11/2022
  54. Chief Digital Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn on 9/21/2022
  55. Chief Disability Officer
  56. Chief Diversity Officer
  57. Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer - seen on 7/26/2022
  58. Chief E-Commerce Officer
  59. Chief Enablement Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/10/2023
  60. Chief Encouragement Officer - seen on Twitter 9/27/2022
  61. Chief Engineer
  62. Chief Engineering Officer
  63. Chief Enthusiasm Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  64. Chief Entrepreneur - seen on LinkedIn 1/3/2023
  65. Chief Environmental, Social and Governance Officer - 1/18/2023
  66. Chief Equality Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/
  67. Chief Equity Officer - seen online 10/4/2023
  68. Chief Ethics Officer
  69. Chief Evangelist - worked with two of them c. 2015-2020
  70. Chief Events Officer
  71. Chief Executive Officer
  72. Chief Experience Officer
  73. Chief External Affairs Officer - seen as a job title 2/19/2024
  74. Chief Financial Officer
  75. Chief Future Officer 
  76. Chief Futurist
  77. Chief Gaming Officer
  78. Chief Genealogical Officer
  79. Chief Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer - someone with that title seen on LinkedIn 8/25/2023
  80. Chief Governance Officer
  81. Chief Growth Officer
  82. Chief Happiness Officer
  83. Chief Health Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/31/2022
  84. Chief Health Equity Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/14/2022
  85. Chief Heart Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  86. Chief Human Resources Officer - https://www.hrpolicy.org/
  87. Chief Image Officer
  88. Chief Impact Officer - seen in marketing email 1/17/2024
  89. Chief Information Officer
  90. Chief Information and Operations Officer - announced on LinkedIn 9/22/2023
  91. Chief Information Governance Officer - https://www.cigoa.org
  92. Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer - 8/3/2022
  93. Chief Information Security Officer
  94. Chief Innovation Officer
  95. Chief Innovation and Technology Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/16/2023
  96. Chief Innovation and Value Officer - seen via email 5/3/2023
  97. Chief Inspiration Officer
  98. Chief Integration Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/25/2022
  99. Chief Integrator Officer - seen at the AIIM22 conference 4/29/2022
  100. Chief Intellectual Property Officer
  101. Chief Internet Evangelist
  102. Chief Investment Officer
  103. Chief Joy Officer
  104. Chief Knowledge Officer
  105. Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer - job announced on LinkedIn 7/31/2023
  106. Chief Learning Officer
  107. Chief Learning Culture Officer - new eBook by Curious Lion 4/11/2022
  108. Chief Legal Officer
  109. Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/10/2022
  110. Chief Legal and Compliance Officer - title seen in use on Twitter 9/12/2023
  111. Chief Legal Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/10/2023
  112. Chief Legal Technologist - seen on LinkedIn 2/25/2022
  113. Chief Lending Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/20/2022
  114. Chief Listening Officer
  115. Chief Market Intelligence Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/23/2024
  116. Chief Marketing Officer
  117. Chief Media Officer
  118. Chief Medical Officer
  119. Chief Membership & Commercial Services Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/2/2024
  120. Chief Membership Experience Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/10/2023
  121. Chief Merchandising Officer - seen in a story on LinkedIn 5/19/2022
  122. Chief Metaverse Officer - seen on 4/1/2022 at https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/how-to-prepare-for-the-metaverse
  123. Chief Morale Officer - seen on LinkedIn 3/1/2022
  124. Chief Movement Officer
  125. Chief Network Officer
  126. Chief Networking Officer
  127. Chief Nuclear Officer - saw someone announcing that as their new title on LinkedIn 3/31/2023
  128. Chief Nursing Informatics Officer - saw someone with that title on LinkedIn 1/7/2022
  129. Chief Observance Officer
  130. Chief Operating Officer
  131. Chief Operations Officer
  132. Chief Partner Officer - seen on LinkedIn announcement 7/22/2022
  133. Chief People Officer
  134. Chief Perception Officer
  135. Chief Pharmacy Officer - seen on LinkedIn 12/9/2021
  136. Chief Pizza and Beer Officer - job posting on LinkedIn for Casey's Pizza 1/18/2024
  137. Chief Policy Innovation Officer - 8/3/2022 on Twitter
  138. Chief Privacy Officer
  139. Chief Privacy & Data Ethics Officer - 8/3/2022
  140. Chief Process Officer
  141. Chief Process and AI Officer - https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/07/26/michael-best-creates-ai-focused-c-suite-role/ 
  142. Chief Procurement Officer
  143. Chief Product Officer
  144. Chief Product Security Officer
  145. Chief Program Officer - position announced on LinkedIn 2/1/2024
  146. Chief Purpose Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  147. Chief Quality Officer
  148. Chief Quality and Product Integrity Officer
  149. Chief Queer Officer - seen on LinkedIn 11/23/2021
  150. Chief Rainmaker - seen on LinkedIn 4/14/2022
  151. Chief Recognition Officer - seen on Linked 12/12/2021
  152. Chief Records Officer 
  153. Chief Recruiting Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/11/2023
  154. Chief Remote Officer - BBC story on 11/2/2022 https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221027-the-rise-of-the-chief-remote-officer
  155. Chief Reputation Officer
  156. Chief Research Officer
  157. Chief Restructuring Officer
  158. Chief Revenue Officer - see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/03/13/the-ceos-new-secret-weapon-the-chief-revenue-officer
  159. Chief Revenue & Operations Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/22/2024
  160. Chief Risk Officer
  161. Chief Safety Officer
  162. Chief Sales Officer - seen on LinkedIn 8/21/2023
  163. Chief Scientific Officer
  164. Chief Scientific and Regulatory Officer
  165. Chief Scientist
  166. Chief Security Officer
  167. Chief Services Officer
  168. Chief Shampoo Officer - seen on LinkedIn 4/26/2024
  169. Chief Social Media Officer
  170. Chief Stores Officer - Nordstrom has one according to a story seen 8/28/2023.
  171. Chief Storyteller - seen on LinkedIn 1/4/2022
  172. Chief Storytelling Officer
  173. Chief Strategy Officer
  174. Chief Strategy and Accountability Officer - posted as job title by holder on 11/1/2023
  175. Chief Supply Chain Officer
  176. Chief Sustainability Officer - LinkedIn 1/14/2023
  177. Chief Talent Officer
  178. Chief Talent Acquisition Officer - seen in ARMA Magazine article on 7/21/2023
  179. Chief Talent Development Officer - seen as reference to the magazine of the same name published by ATD on 12/27/2021
  180. Chief Tax Officer - heard on commercial 3/31/2024
  181. Chief Technical Officer
  182. Chief Technological Product Officer
  183. Chief Technology Ethics Officer - first seen 11/9/2021: https://hbr.org/2021/11/thinking-through-the-ethics-of-new-techbefore-theres-a-problem
  184. Chief Technology Officer
  185. Chief Technology Security Officer
  186. Chief Technology Strategist - seen on Twitter 5/30/2023
  187. Chief TikTok Officer - LinkedIn story 2/14/2023 https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hot-new-job-chief-tiktok-officer-6173050/
  188. Chief Transformation Officer - seen as a job title on LinkedIn as of 3/30/2022
  189. Chief Trust Officer - https://www.worklife.news/leadership/chief-trust-officer/ 
  190. Chief Trust and Security Officer - someone's job title seen on LinkedIn 10/25/2023
  191. Chief Value Officer - seen on LinkedIn as of 12/12/2021
  192. Chief Visibility Officer
  193. Chief Visionary Officer
  194. Chief Web Officer
  195. Chief Wellbeing Officer
  196. Chief Wellness Officer - seen on LinkedIn 1/14/2023

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