Brent Saunders

Chair and CEO, Bausch+Lomb $BLCO; Chair, The Beauty Health Co $SKIN; Chair @Roam ;former Chairman & CEO of Allergan; co-founder Rapalogix

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Everyone wants AI to transform their business.

But AI won’t fix a bad workflow.

It will just automate the waste.

The biggest productivity gains won’t come from adding AI.

They’ll come from redesigning work, then letting AI accelerate it.

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

@CoachDanGo Spending less time worrying about the future and more time being present with my family.
The meetings, emails, and deadlines fade. The moments with the people you love don’t come back.

[Longevity Technology @LongevityTech]

Series A funding will expand Re-Q and advance a pipeline built on mTOR biology as longevity science seeks commercial traction.

https://t.co/yv8uSDjNLC

#longevity #geroscience #mtor #biotech #innovation

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

@houmanhemmati Excellent point!

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

The cost of a bad decision is usually visible.

The cost of a delayed decision rarely is.

That’s why organizations tolerate delay far more than they should.

Opportunities disappear.
Competitors move.
Momentum fades.

Time is often the most expensive thing you spend.

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

@PatrickCFOD Exactly!

[Dr Doris Day @DrDorisDay]

Exciting news for longevity skincare: https://t.co/TzL6LgZDuX

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Rapalogix started with a simple belief: aging is biology, and biology can be understood.

That belief led to Re-Q and a growing pipeline focused on longevity and cellular health.

Today, we’re excited to announce the closing of our $20 million Series A financing.

A lot of work remains, but we’re just getting started.
https://t.co/rjUZIC6tG8

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

@TaraBull Me!

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

We've spent years digitizing work, but not enough time rebuilding the social fabric that made work effective in the first place.
The answer isn't simply remote or office. It's creating connection, visibility, and spontaneous collaboration regardless of location.
That's why I'm bullish on what @roam is building, because it directly tackles this gap by enabling teams to recreate those essential connections and interactions in a way that works seamlessly across distributed environments.

[Howard Lerman @howard]

This New York Times article on remote work, isolation, and mental health highlights a real challenge facing the modern workforce. Researchers found that remote and hybrid workers are more likely to spend entire days alone, have fewer social interactions, and report higher levels of anxiety and depression than their on-site counterparts. These findings should be taken seriously.

But the conclusion should not be that remote work is a mistake. Is it not possible that the tooling is the problem? If you have a gym with no weights, would you expect its members to gain muscle?

The fact is that most remote work tools were designed for communication, not for human connection.

For more than a century, the office served two functions simultaneously. It was a place to get work done, and it was a social environment. Employees knew who was around, what people were working on, who was available for a quick question, and when a teammate needed help. Relationships formed through thousands of small interactions that were never scheduled and rarely documented.

When companies went remote, they replaced the office with tools like email, Slack, Zoom, and project management software. These tools are excellent for transmitting information. They are much less effective at creating presence, spontaneity, and belonging. The were designed for the office, not as a replacement for it.

The Science paper is not evidence that remote work fails. It is evidence that we have not yet fully rebuilt the social layer of work.

The question is not whether people should work remotely. The real question is how to preserve the human benefits of an office while allowing people to work from anywhere. Research continues to show that flexibility is highly valued by employees, even when organizations are still learning how to maintain culture and connection in distributed environments.

This is precisely the problem Roam was created to solve. Roam is not another messaging tool. It was designed to recreate the social fabric of an office. Employees can see who is present, drop into conversations, collaborate spontaneously, and maintain ambient awareness of their team throughout the day. Instead of reducing work to a series of scheduled meetings and text messages, Roam restores many of the informal interactions that historically happened in physical offices.

The future of work is not remote versus office.
The future of work is presence without proximity.

The best organizations will combine the flexibility of remote work with the connection, visibility, and serendipity that people have traditionally found in physical workplaces. If isolation is the problem, forcing everyone back into a commute is one possible solution. Building a better workplace for distributed teams is another.

https://t.co/H9kPEy7J84

[Angela Duckworth @angeladuckw]

Grit ≠ Talent.

After two decades of research, we know that the correlation between grit and any measure of talent is about zero.

It's passion and perseverance that make super achievers.

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

One of the biggest lessons of fatherhood is that children learn far more from what they see than what they hear.

They watch how you treat people.

How you handle adversity.

How you respond when things don’t go your way.

The same is true in leadership.

Your actions become your legacy.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads working every day to set the right example.

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Interesting.

Perhaps the debate isn’t office vs. remote.

It’s isolation vs. connection.

For people working remotely, @roam offers flexibility without sacrificing community.

That may be the best of both worlds. @howard

[Brian Sullivan @SullyCNBC]

A massive new study finds that working remotely may be really bad for you, especially if you are already living alone. It led to depression and increased pharmaceutical use.

More shocking? The study didn't even include Covid lockdown time .. the scientists excluded much of that.

Does this change our thinking about remote work, at least for those already spending most of their time alone?

https://t.co/3apDxgybL3

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

@howard I agree!

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

If you could eliminate ONE thing from corporate life tomorrow, what would create the biggest productivity gain?

• Meetings
• Approvals
• Reporting
• Email

My vote: approvals.

Too many organizations move at the speed of permission.

[Howard Lerman @howard]

https://t.co/dS4aY2n5IR

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Most organizations don’t move slowly because people are slow.

They move slowly because decisions are slow.

Too many approvals.
Too many meetings.
Too many layers.

The fastest companies don’t make better decisions.

They make decisions faster and adjust faster.

Speed compounds.

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Every company has a bottleneck.

Most leaders know it exists.

Few spend enough time removing it.

Growth doesn’t happen when you work harder.

It happens when you identify the constraint, eliminate it, and move to the next one.

Execution is the continuous removal of bottlenecks.

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Is the peptide craze backed by science? I'm optimistic some peptide therapies show results & the biology is compelling. But hype exceeds evidence. We need better human data, long-term safety, & higher manufacturing standards.
Science & quality matter!

https://t.co/2j80RIZzDA

[Brent Saunders @brentlsaunders]

Many companies are making the same mistake with AI.

They’re adding AI to existing workflows instead of redesigning the workflows themselves.

You don’t get transformation by automating complexity.

You get transformation by eliminating complexity.

The winners won’t have the most AI.

They’ll have the best workflows with or without AI.