Ryan Roslansky

As CEO of LinkedIn and EVP of Microsoft Office and Copilot, I am passionate about connecting the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. In my years with LinkedIn, I've been fortunate to work alongside talented and innovative colleagues, and together we have developed the world's leading professional networking platform. As we look to grow and evolve LinkedIn in the years to come, I'm excited to continue driving our vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

Chief Executive Officer

“I've always seen the best in situations, even when it's tough.” 

Just last month, Fernando Mendoza led Indiana University to its first College Football National Championship. This followed him becoming Indiana’s first player to win the Heisman Trophy and lead the team to a perfect winning record in the regular season, another first. 

The nation has been drawn in by his unlikely journey, his earnest charm and obvious leadership traits. Now, he is the consensus selection to be the No. 1 selection for the NFL’s draft in May.

In this episode of The Path, I spoke with Fernando about his remarkable rise to the top. Whether it was selling mangos in his younger days or selecting Cal over an Ivy League school, he has resisted the straightforward path and taken on all challenges.

And never miss an episode of The Path by subscribing at https://lnkd.in/dSA8YcXz

I know what you're thinking. Yes. The amazing LinkedIn Facilities team *did* clear having this many GOATs in the building at once. Great to have some of the greatest under one roof for Super Bowl week...

And stay tuned for an upcoming Path episode with Fernando Mendoza...

One of the most common questions Aneesh Raman and I hear right now is whether AI is going to replace entire professions.

We don't think that's the right framing...

One of the most common questions Aneesh and I hear right now is whether AI is going to replace entire professions. We don't think that's the right fra

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Whether it was selling mangos in his younger days or selecting Cal over an Ivy League, Fernando Mendoza has resisted the straightforward path and leaned into the uncomfortable. Learn how hard work and brave choices early in his career helped fuel his meteoric rise for Indiana University in this episode of The Path.

The Path is a video series where I chat with some of the most influential leaders in the world exploring the successes, missteps, and key pivotal mome

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“I've always seen the best in situations, even when it's tough.” How Fernando Mendoza paved his path...

LIAM DARMODYᵍᵐ

Personal Brand Strategist & Networking Coach → I help entrepreneurs, executives & teams build brands to attract clients, talent & opportunity | Family Man | Connector | AI & Blockchain Bull | Hot Sauce Aficionado🌶️

I help founders, entrepreneurs, and executives build businesses by becoming trusted, visible, and referenceable in their space. My work sits at the intersection of personal brand strategy, go-to-market execution, and AI-enabled operations. I help people understand how to show up across LinkedIn, search, and AI-driven discovery and how that visibility turns into real opportunity over time.

Currently, I'm working with Brandi (mybrandi.ai), helping companies understand how they show up inside AI-generated answers and recommendations, and how brand visibility, trust, and demand are increasingly shaped by systems they do not directly control.

Seeing this shift up close has changed how I help individuals and teams show up online.

A core part of my approach is what I call Voice Enablement with AI.

Instead of writing for people, I teach them how to use AI to think, draft, and create content in their own voice. Most clients stop writing from scratch and start editing instead. Content creation becomes faster, more consistent, and still unmistakably human.

How? Because we are using your actual voice!

What I help with most often:

• Founder and executive positioning and LinkedIn profile strategy
• Personal narrative clarity for humans, AI systems, and decision-makers
• Relationship-based networking and social selling without pressure tactics
• Using AI to streamline content creation, engagement, and workflows
• Measuring what actually matters in brand and go-to-market efforts

Alongside my advisory work, I take on select fractional go-to-market and operations roles, supporting teams during growth, transition, or strategic realignment.

I’m known for helping people:

• Clarify what makes them meaningfully different
• Build trust before asking for anything
• Turn visibility into opportunity over time
• Turn chaos into organized chaos ;)

I call this manifesting serendipity.

It’s not luck. It’s intention, consistency, and showing up in the right conversations long before you need something. It's being in someone's orbit often enough that you become the first person they think of when they need your product or service. 

It's about being top of mind. 

Outside of work, I’m a husband, a dad of two, an early-morning lifter, and a proud hot sauce aficionado 🌶️. 

If you’re building a brand, a business, or your next chapter, I’d love to jam with you. 

Hi5, 
LD

Founder

I help executives, founders, and their teams build magnetic brands that attract clients, talent, and opportunity on LinkedIn. 

My services include: 

My services include: 
- Profile Optimization
- LinkedIn feature training
- Core content strategy
- Ghostediting (ask me about it)
- Content performance analysis 
- Sales Navigator training

Liam's Brand Stand was born out of my passion for personal branding and belief that LinkedIn is the ultimate platform for professionals and organizations to manifest serendipity and unlock opportunity.

This passion started as a fascination that turned into a hobby, then to a side hustle, and now, my full-time focus. I started creating content and being more intentional about building my brand here in January 2020 and since then I've amassed 35,000 followers and my content has garnered ~23,000,000 impressions, ~600,000 reactions, and ~100,000 comments. 

Completely organically.

Pretty crazy, especially when you consider I'm just a suburban dad who took to LinkedIn as a way to have conversation with other adults while cooped up in my house with my wife, a toddler, and an infant during a pandemic. 

That's the kind of opportunity that exists on LinkedIn and I'm on a mission to help more people experience it for themselves. 

If you're interested in doing so, visit: 

liamsbrandstand.com to learn more 
-or- 
calendly.com/liamdarmody to book time with me

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hi5, 
LD

LIAM DARMODY

Bittersweet day today. 

I'm moving my in-laws from the home they've been in for 15 years to an apartment closer to us. 

I don't think I realized how much their house meant to me. 

It’s the place I asked for their daughter’s hand in marriage. 

It’s where we broke the news that we were having kids. 

It’s where we gathered as a family for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

It’s where the cousins get to have sleepovers in the same big room and stay up way too late. 

It’s where I learned how to smoke good BBQ. 

it’s been a retreat from regular life.
A place to just relax with family. 
And now it’s not anymore. 

Just like that. 

These types of transitions don’t happen often in our lives, so it’s good to sit with them when they do come about.

Reflect.
Appreciate. 
Mourn if you must.

Next chapter starts for them in just a few hours and then our house will become the place where everyone gathers. 

A passing of the torch. 

We are ready, but we are sad nonetheless.

Cherish the moments while you’re in em, friends, they don’t last forever.

Brand Strategist & GTM Operator helping founders build their businesses with LinkedIn & AI 🌶️ Hot Sauce Aficionado 🌶️

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Linkedin is taking aim at automated AI comments. VP of Product Management, Gyanda Sachdeva, posted a video talking about the importance of authentic commentary on LinkedIn, stating that going forward if LinkedIn detects automated comments, it will: 

1) remove from the default “most relevant” sort

2) not show the comment beyond the commenters network (a.k.a. Miss out on all those juicy comment/level impressions we now get)

3) restrict user accounts for repeat offenders 

This is awesome to see. 

Linkedin is doubling down on authenticity and trust.

It’s a core differentiator for the platform amidst a world filled with social media bots, and I think it’s great they are leaning into it.

ChatGPT cooked me whe I asked it how much parmigiano reggiano contained 30 grams of protein. This is why I pay Chet the big bucks.

Look Mom, I’m Linkedin famous! Shout out to Sarah Lien Finnerty for capturing this quote of mine out in the wild… now if only I could figure out how to get me one of those paid LinkedIn partnerships… 😉

Hi5 and have a great day! 

LD 
🌶️

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Every Friday night I think “maybe I’ll go to the gym tomorrow.” 
Every Saturday morning I think “maybe I’ll skip the gym”
Then I remind myself that going on Saturday is one step closer to 50+ extra workouts per year. 

Sometimes that works and I go. 
Sometimes it doesn’t and I don’t. 

But just 1 year ago I never even thought about going on a Saturday if I went all week. 

This is what change from the inside looks like. 

I’m down 75lbs and 50% to my goal weight. 

Been a long road and I have a long way to go, but I’m going and that’s what matters. 

Day-by-day.
Step-by-step.

Consistency and patience FTW. 

Hi5 & have a great day!
LD
🌶️

Huge fan of AI, Nano Banana & Wispr Flow. 

Not a huge fan of hearing Megan Bailey Darmody wispring a kitchen remodel into Nano Banana.

Send HELOC.

Brand Strategist & Fractional GTM Operator helping founders build their businesses with LinkedIn & AI 🌶️ Hot Sauce Aficionado 🌶️

I will never understand why airlines board front to back instead of the other way around. I get that they make money by offering “early access” to the plane, but in an industry that is already filled with delays, is the incremental revenue really worth the general inefficiency & annoyance to passengers? 

Guessing yes or they wouldn’t do it, but still… from an operational perspective it seems totally backwards. 

I assumed chatGPT would have a better answer, but no dice. 

Truly mindboggling to me. Anyone else?

On the bright side…

I no longer need seatbelt extenders, which is  awesome.

Starting conversation on Linkedin is one of the most valuable ways to build your brand here. Commenting is the most effective way to get yourself on the radar of people you'd like to know better. 

There's a reason I call this place a serendipity manifestation engine... 

You simply never know who is watching 👀

I’m sorry… uphill skiing is an Olympic sport now? This is “ski-Mo” and it is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. What would possess anyone to pursue this?!?

LinkedIn can be a depressing place to spend time these days. It's almost impossible to scroll the feed without seeing somebody talking about getting laid off. 

I can relate, as I've been through it myself a couple of times.   

Fortunately there's no shortage of incredibly talented people whose mission is to help people through career transition. 

My friend Gina Riley is one of those. 

So when she asked if I would join her and Mary Killelea for a conversation about creating opportunities on Linkedin as part of her Path to Next series, of course I said yes. 

If you're on the market for a new opportunity or just thinking about making your next move, join us Wednesday February 11th, 2026 at Noon ET for an in-depth conversation about how to make the most of this magnificent platform. 

Because it's so much more than a place to apply for jobs. 
It's a place to manifest serendipity. 

Linkedin is the empathetic, emotionally intelligent social network and when you leverage it to build human connection, you never know where it might lead. 

But if you simply treat it as a job board? 
You're selling yourself short. 

Join us for this free event and learn how to manifest serendipity for yourself.

Register here: https://lnkd.in/eZS4H4JT

Hi5, 
LD
🌶️

Ads are coming to (open) AI (but not to Claude, that SuperBowl savage) and the NYTimes published this perspective from a researcher who left OpenAI recently, supposedly because of it. 

I don’t know how personal you get with Chad Gipity, but I tell it a lot more than I would ever have shared publicly on Facebook… 

May have to rethink where I spill the beans. 

Then again, is it any different than how much Google knows about me? 

Google knows way more…

What do you think about ads coming to ChatGPT? 

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

Anyone else delete ~20 exclamation points per day? 

Asking for a friend… 🙈

I found this Valentine’s Day card wedged halfway under the dresser in our bedroom on February 20th and if that doesn’t perfectly encapsulate exactly what this card says, I don’t know what does. 

This Valentine’s Day was actually the first in 9 years that Megan Bailey Darmody wasn’t stressed beyond belief working as a VP of Marketing at a flower delivery company. 

You’d think that might make us stop and celebrate it properly for once in a decade, but alas… 

Here’s to all the other partners in chaos grinding through a busy work and home life. The ones who don’t need a Hallmark holiday to celebrate our love because we rely on it to get through the other 364 days per year. 

Parents, I’m curious… 

Do you make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day? Or is it more of an afterthought like a card jammed under a dresser for you, too?

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

LinkedIn’s latest algorithm is dialed in right now, serving me up hot sauce humor like this from legendary hot sauce purveyors like David Delcourt. Here for it. I want this on a tee shirt.

The team at Buffer know what’s up. 

4-day workweek, fully remote, from anywhere on earth.  

If that doesn’t sing “trust your people” I don’t know what does. And the best part is that buffer has a great product and customer support. 

Wish more companies thought this way. Seems RTO is the thing we hear most about these days. 

I’m curious…

Are you on team RTO, Hybrid, or remote?

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