As Disney’s Bob Iger Passes CEO Baton, His Next Moves Remain In Flux

As Paramount’s pending takeover of Warner Bros Discovery preoccupies the industry, another seismic development in the media business has finally arrived: Disney’s CEO transition.

Bob Iger, who returned to the top job in 2022, will officially pass the baton to successor Josh D’Amaro on Wednesday, ending a fabled run in the corner office. While the focus will now be on how D’Amaro will run things, it is also worth considering Iger’s trajectory once he finally detaches from the company where he has spent more than half a century.

The record shows a list of accomplishments by Iger over a combined 17-plus years as CEO across two separate stints. The most recent one, starting in November 2022, saw Iger confronting vexing issues like AI, labor unrest and the need to lay off thousands of workers amid sweeping industry consolidation. Despite the challenges that he has conceded were fiercer than…