Orianna Rosa Royle

As Success Associate Editor, Orianna Rosa Royle leads Fortune's vertical for aspiration people. The award-winning London-based journalist has been writing about careers, leadership and company culture for the best part of a decade.

Since joining Fortune in 2023, Orianna has quickly become one of its most-read writers, scoring exclusive CEO interviews and building a reputation for her rags-to-riches coverage.

Orianna was inspired to start writing about success—and how those with it, attained it—after her own experience escaping poverty and working 7 days a week to break into the notoriously competitive world of journalism.

She started out as a video journalist and presenter, before joining the business magazine world in 2017. In her last role, Orianna was the senior reporter at Management Today, Britain's longest-running title for CEOs. Her commitment to uncovering inequality at work and profiling minority leaders, won her a 30 Under 30 award by the prestigious Professional Publishers Association.

Young pregnant businesswoman at home office, working with laptop on sofa

Leadership

The best and worst time to email your employees is the same: Sunday at 3 p.m.

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

man who has just finished his work and is ready to go home or to another destination on his bike. He is wearing a yellow sweater, blue jeans, and a black backpack. He is holding a phone in his hand and looks like he has something important to do or check

Leadership

Half of workers would actually rather have a strict 9-to-5 job than a flexible one

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Success

Nearly a quarter of baby boomer and late Gen X men are ‘unretiring’ or planning to because they can’t afford to kick up their feet in the current climate

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Friends feeling sad after graduation from university

Success

Nearly half of master’s degree programs leave students financially worse off—and just one subject results in a starting salary over $100k

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Lifestyle

Professionals would rather ‘super-commute’ for over 4 hours a day and keep their pandemic-style suburban life than live near the office

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Success

College jocks—not nerds—turn out to have more successful careers and earn $220,000 more, new research finds

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Acronyms to make the list include IRL and WFH—despite the latter dominating workplace conversations for well over four years.

Success

Bosses: Gen Z and millennial workers have no clue what you’re talking about when you use these acronyms

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Success

Gen Zers are dating people 25% better than they are. They’re calling it ‘throning’—and experts say it’s a quick ticket to long-term success

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Leadership

Gen X founder of $63 million-a-year ice-cream company grows raspberries, blueberries and bok choi from her central London abode

BYOrianna Rosa Royle

Harbin, China – January 13, 2015: Signboard of KFC. People are walking. Located in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China.

Conferences

Orianna Rosa Royle

The best and worst time to email your employees is the same: Sunday at 3 p.m.

Half of workers would actually rather have a strict 9-to-5 job than a flexible one

Nearly a quarter of baby boomer and late Gen X men are ‘unretiring’ or planning to because they can’t afford to kick up their feet in the current climate

Nearly half of master’s degree programs leave students financially worse off—and just one subject results in a starting salary over $100k

Professionals would rather ‘super-commute’ for over 4 hours a day and keep their pandemic-style suburban life than live near the office

College jocks—not nerds—turn out to have more successful careers and earn $220,000 more, new research finds

Bosses: Gen Z and millennial workers have no clue what you’re talking about when you use these acronyms

Gen Zers are dating people 25% better than they are. They’re calling it ‘throning’—and experts say it’s a quick ticket to long-term success

Gen X founder of $63 million-a-year ice-cream company grows raspberries, blueberries and bok choi from her central London abode

The CEO of KFC and Taco Bell China sits for hours and watches customers eat. It’s led to popular menu items

The CEO behind KFC and Taco Bell in China explains why bosses aren’t allowed to promote their direct reports

Joshua Kushner: Why I bet $1.3 billion on OpenAI

AT&T’s CEO says AI may cause power shortages and it could be ‘the next big social issue in the United States’

Trump has advisors who ‘love’ Putin whispering ‘a lot of absolute nonsense’ into his ear, warns Boris Johnson

Income inequality was put on ‘steroids’ thanks to the pandemic, says ex-Goldman Sachs chief investment strategist