Jon Cook spends his weeks running one of the largest agency networks in the world. But on as many weekends as the global CEO of VML can get away, Cook trades holding company duties for hiking boots and heads to the mountains.
Cook and his wife, Lisa, keep a small cabin in the woods near Estes Park, Colorado, just 15 minutes from the gates of Rocky Mountain National Park. Itâs not a short trip from his home base in Kansas City â about an eight-hour drive â but when the mountains call, he answers.
âIâm really bad about taking time off.

