Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)
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Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)
Real CEOs. Real Stories. Hosted by Ben Fanning—2025 Gold Stevie Award winner for Best Business Podcast and ranked in the Top 2% globally—Lead the Team draws on over 600 CEO interviews to take you inside the minds of leaders from brands like Honeywell, HP, IBM, Dunkin’, and L’Oréal. In each episode...
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When Mistakes Cost Lives, How to Lead (Fluke CEO, Parker Burke)
What Saves Lives
Parker Burke, Group President over at Fluke, joined me for a conversation that really strips leadership down to its core.
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Nuclear Submarines and $22B Mergers Shaped a CEO (Deltek's, Bob Hughes)
Details Define You.
Bob Hughes, President & CEO of Deltek, learned that in moments when the stakes were highest..
on a nuclear submarine…<...
From Team USA to CEO (Bluebeam CEO Usman Shuja)
Elite CEOs and athletes share a belief.
Usman Shuja, CEO of Bluebeam, learned it long before the boardroom, representing the USA national cricke...
Google Wolverine Manager to CEO (PandaDoc's CEO Keith Rabkin)
Google’s “Wolverine” is now a $100M+ CEO
Keith Rabkin, CEO of PandaDoc, is one of the few leaders I’ve met who can bridge the gap between "big-t...
The $1.1B Transformation Most Leaders Fail (Winpak's Chief Operational Excellence Officer, Randall Troutman)
THE TRANSFORMATION WALL
Randall Troutman, Winpak's, Chief Operational Excellence Officer leads a massive $1.1 billion transformation, tasked wit...
How Great Leaders Navigate Uncertainty (CEO Jed Ayres, ControlUp)
Leaders Are Built in the Blur.
Jed Ayres, CEO of ControlUp, told me something most leaders won’t say out loud:
Clarity usually comes after...
The Question That Reset Avaya (CEO Patrick Dennis)
That first all-hands.
Patrick Dennis, CEO of Avaya, walked in expecting nerves and optimism.
Instead, one question he was asked changed th...
What Only Hard Seasons Teach (CEO Planview's Matt Zilli)
The Hard Season
Matt Zilli, CEO of Planview, told me the hardest years of leading a company through billion-dollar growth (including restructure...
Repeat Elite Performance (The Change that Matters)- CEO John Leach of FLS Transportation
Is obsession with "The Win" actually preventing it?
John Leach CEO of FLS Transportation shared with me that fixating on the win is the fastest...
Monetize Your Leadership (Thinkific CEO & Founder Greg Smith)
Missed Opportunity.
Greg Smith, Founder of Thinkific, shared with me how most leaders are sitting on their most undervalued asset: their own exp...
Why Your "Best" People ARE THE RISK (CEO Americas at Nortal, Alain Dias)
High performance deceives.
Alain Dias, CEO of Nortal Americas, knows a thing or two about building at scale..after all his team helped build the...
Why Scaling Deceives - CEO of Forescout, Barry Mainz
Scale deceives.
Barry Mainz, CEO of Forescout Technologies Inc., reveals how leaders unknowingly become responsible for massive risks they never...
This RESET Made Him a Better CEO (CEO VitalEdge, Vikram Savkar)
Vikram Savkar, CEO of VitalEdge Technologies, shares how a demanding moment pushed him to rethink how he was operating...
AND why choosing to re...
One Skill You Only Learn Under Extreme Pressure (President and CEO Frontgrade Technologies, Mitch Stevison)
Pressure doesn't change the game...it reveals the leader.
Mitch Stevison, President & CEO of Frontgrade Technologies, recently shared how a hig...
The Question 99% of Leaders Are Too Afraid to Ask - Pipedrive President, Peter Harris
Questioning unlocks elite performance.
Pete Harris, President of Pipedrive, was at the pinnacle of his previous profession (one that he’d spent...
Why Office Design Is a Leadership Decision (President of Industrious, Anna Squires Levine)
Your office is deciding results.
Anna Squires Levine, President of Industrious, leads a company that has spent more than a decade observing how...
The Mistake That Taught a Future President How to Lead (Altera Digital Health's Marcus Perez)
This mistake taught leadership.
Marcus Perez, President of Altera Digital Health, shares a moment that unfolded in a helicopter at low altitude...
A CEOs' Bold Move That Built Trust FASTER Than Any Speech (Wood Mackenzie's Jason Liu)
Leadership tests you.
Jason Liu, CEO of Wood Mackenzie, felt that test immediately when he stepped into the role right after a major merger.
How a President Built Speed Without Burning Out His Team (Coder's Josh Epstein)
Pressure felt like leadership (until it wasn’t)
Josh Epstein, President & Chief Business Officer at Coder, learned this the hard way.
I’ve...
Why Half of AI Projects are Failing - CEO of Pluralsight, Erin Gajdalo
AI failure rates shock me.
Erin Gajdalo, CEO of Pluralsight, joined me and what she revealed about why AI projects collapse disturbed me even mo...
Gold Medal Comeback: How a CEO Rebuilt a Broken Team and Made Olympic & Paralympic History (Phil Andrews)
Winning gold didn’t end the pressure. It intensified it.
A truth Phil Andrews, CEO of USA Fencing, came to understand through experience.
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The Brutal Feedback That Turned Him Into a Top CEO (RLDatix's Dan Michelson)
Dan Michelson, CEO of RLDatix North America, shared the feedback that reshaped how he leads.
When things go well, it can actually blind you to a...
The CEO Who Built a Business That Can’t Win Alone (Hometown CEO Dennis Levene)
Winning alone is losing.
Dennis Levene, CEO of Hometown, bet the business on his customers’ success… and it’s paying off.
Most CEOs obsess...
Inside the Quantum CEO's Truth-Driven Comeback (Hugues Meyrath)
Hugues Meyrath, CEO of Quantum, came back to lead the same company that built his career decades ago — a 45-year-old tech brand powering Hollywood, Sp...
The Million Dollar Mistake That Made Him a Better Leader (Pattern's COO, Rob Hahn)
Ever made a call at work that backfired — big time?
Rob Hahn, now COO at Pattern, knows exactly what that feels like.
Early in his career...
Kenneth Cole CEO Shares Their Hidden Advantage (Jed Berger)
Jed Berger, Kenneth Cole Global President and CEO, is building something rare in business today — a brand that grows because it stands for something b...
The ICEE CEO’s Secret that Became a Billion-Dollar Leadership Strategy (Dan Fachner, CEO J&J Snack Foods)
It started with a freezer then and became a billion-dollar lesson.
Dan Fachner, CEO of J&J Snack Foods — the company behind ICEE, Slush Puppie,...
Jeff Bezos’ 5-Second Rule That’s Powering AI (ActiveCampaign's Chai Atreya, Chief Product Officer)
Bezos' Law - Chai Atreya, Chief Product Officer at ActiveCampaign, once helped build Amazon Alexa under Jeff Bezos.
During one internal review,...
They Said I Wasn’t Ready — So I Became the CEO (SmartBear's Dan Faulkner)
He didn’t say he was ready. He proved it quietly.
When I sat down with Dan Faulkner, CEO of SmartBear, he told me he was once passed over for a...
He Led Troops in Combat — Now He Leads Billion-Dollar Companies (Lance Olmsted, President of Copperleaf, an IFS company)
Leadership Under Fire
He Led Troops in Combat — Now He Leads Billion-Dollar Companies
I first met Lance Olmsted, now President of IFS Copp...
AI Playbook Turns $2M into $134M - CEO, Invisible's Matt Fitzpatrick
Leaders Miss This
Matthew Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies—the #2 fastest-growing AI company in America—leads with a principle many ov...
Hidden Cost of Leading a $5B Global Company - COO Genpact Americas Jakub Vanek
Jakub Vanek, Chief Operating Officer at Genpact Americas, has moved six times across four countries while scaling teams of thousands inside a $5B glob...
From Setback to $200M Success (COO Playbook) - Andelyn Biosciences', Cyrill Kellerhals
Under Pressure, Leaders Rise
When I spoke with Cyrill Kellerhals, COO of Andelyn Biosciences, I was struck by how calm and grounded he was whil...
How a Submarine Officer’s Biggest Mistake Taught Him Calm CEO Leadership - AeroPost's Camilo Rueda
Most leaders say they want transparency.
But when the pressure’s on, many unintentionally create cultures where people hide mistakes.
Cami...
I Turned a Garage Door Company Into a Tech Powerhouse (14M+ Users) - CEO Jeff Meredith, Chamberlain Group
Real leadership begins the moment your team starts to doubt you.
Jeff Meredith, CEO of Chamberlain Group, has lived that moment. He took a 70-ye...
I Used One Number to Transform My Entire Company (Amy Martin, TruWest CMO)
Erase silos. Unite the company. Rebuild trust—fast.
When I first heard Amy Martin, CMO at TruWest Holdings, talk about her “One Number” strategy...
I Turned a Struggling Startup Into the Backbone of AI (400k+ Engineers)- CEO Revelo, Lucas Mendes
Everyone tells their teams to “use AI.”
But as Lucas Mendes (CEO of Revelo) told me, that almost never works.
Employees don’t resist becau...
I Scaled Dropbox to $1 Billion (President Amplitude, Thomas Hansen)
Thomas Neergaard Hansen — President of Amplitude and former Microsoft and Dropbox executive — proved to me that even the most hard-earned leadership s...
How is Legoland Building Elite Teams? (Fmr. President Legoland Florida, Franceen Gonzalez)
Running a theme park isn’t just rides and fun.
It’s about leading elite teams that deliver with precision, creativity, and resilience—day in and...
Why Losing Makes You a Better Leader (CEO of Cyara, Rishi Rana)
Some Lessons You Only Learn After Failing
Rishi Rana—CEO of Cyara and former global product leader at Microsoft—shares the leadership lesson you...