Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)
Hosted by Ben Fanning · Ben Fanning
4.8from 89 ratings
- 483
- Episodes
- 62
- Transcribed
- 89
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)
Real CEOs. Real Stories. Hosted by Ben Fanning—Gold Stevie Award winner for Best Business Podcast and ranked in the Top 2% globally—Lead the Team draws on over 700 CEO interviews to take you inside the minds of leaders from brands like Honeywell, HP, IBM, Dunkin’, Zoom, and Savannah Bananas. In each episode, you’ll hear raw, unfiltered stories of leading through rapid growth, high-stakes decisions, and make-or-break moments—plus the CEO-tested tools and strategies they use to build high-performing teams. From turning around billion-dollar brands to sparking innovation at scale, these leaders share lessons you can put into action right now to lead your own team better. Subscribe now. ------------- https://www.benfanning.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfanning/
- Publisher
- Ben Fanning
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
62 of 483 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
GE Gave Him 6 Weeks to Sell the Business | Fiserv CRO Robert Clarkson
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Leadership Lesson I Learned the Hard Way | David Lehman, President & COO of Birdeye
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Leadership Test You Can’t Prepare For | Guild CEO Bijal Shah
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GE Gave Him 6 Weeks to Sell the Business | Fiserv CRO Robert Clarkson
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Right. Um, and by, by learning from their leadership style and making them great at what they do, it, it allows me to set up the team in Australia and check in on them, but they know it better than I do. And they're better at it than I am because they understand the competition. They understand, you know, the opportunities. And so for me, creating that kind of trusted leadership that, that, uh, that can solve problems on their own and recognize opportunities. I think that's critical. I've, I've worked for organizations in the past where the leader was, was set the agenda and everybody else executed against that agenda. […]
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- Robert Clarkson
- David Lehman
- Bijal Shah
- David Sudolsky
- Aimee George Leary
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 67 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 22 ratings
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- 99
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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