How our features are made, what they are and are not, and what we do when someone raises a concern.
1. What a feature is
Executives Diary publishes the career stories of senior leaders and operators in their own words. Each feature is built from the featured person's answers to our interviews and questionnaires, the biographical information they supply, and their own publicly available professional material. Our editors shape that material into a story. We do not invent quotes, and we do not add claims the featured person did not make.
2. What a feature is not
A feature is not an investigation, a background check, an audit or a certification. We confirm the identity of the person we are featuring and check that their stated roles and organisations exist. We do not independently verify every claim, credential, award, licence or client result a featured person describes, and we do not assess their personal conduct.
3. Independence and paid promotion
Being featured is free and by editorial selection. We offer optional promotion packages after a feature is published. Payment buys distribution, not editorial control. A featured person cannot pay to change the substance of their story, remove an editor's note, or prevent a correction.
4. Corrections
If a feature contains a factual error, write to editorial@executivesdiary.com with the correction and, where possible, a source. If we agree the fact was wrong, we will correct it and mark the article as updated. Featured individuals may also ask us to update details that have changed since publication, such as a new role or a new company name. We aim to acknowledge every request within five business days and resolve it within ten.
5. Concerns about a featured person
We recognise that readers, former clients, colleagues or others may hold information about a featured person that was not part of the story they told us. If you wish to raise such a concern, write to editorial@executivesdiary.com.
What we will and will not do
- We will read it. Every message is read, acknowledged and kept on a confidential file.
- We will pass it on. It goes to our editorial leadership for review.
- We will not publish it. We do not publish your message, share it with the featured person, or comment on it publicly.
- We will not adjudicate. We are a magazine, not a court, regulator or licensing body. If your concern involves professional misconduct, unlawful conduct, or harm to you or others, please also raise it with the appropriate regulator, licensing board or law enforcement agency, who have the authority and the process to act on it.
- We may act. At our sole discretion we may add an editor's note to a feature, update it, or withdraw it. We are most likely to act where a matter is on the public record, for example a documented regulatory action, licence surrender or court finding, or where the featured person confirms it. We do not commit in advance to any outcome, and we will not always tell you what we decided.
6. Removal of features
A featured person may ask us to remove their feature at any time, and we will normally do so within ten business days. We may also withdraw or amend a feature on our own initiative where we consider it no longer meets our standards, where we become aware of a documented public-record matter that materially affects the story, or where we are required to by law. A withdrawn feature is removed from the site and from our promotion channels. Copies made by others may remain online.
7. Editor's notes
Where we decide that readers need context about a published feature, we add a dated editor's note at the top of the article. An editor's note states facts we have confirmed or that are on the public record. It does not repeat allegations, and it does not express an opinion about the featured person.
8. Use of AI
Our editors use AI tools to help draft, structure and edit features from the material a featured person provides. A human editor reviews every feature before publication, and every featured person approves their feature before it goes live.