Dan Florness, CEO of Fastenal
How do you lead an organization you can’t control? Dan Florness has spent 30 years answering that question at Fastenal and the last 11 as CEO of what is now a $9 billion industrial distributor operati...
7 Jul 51min
Erica Baird, Executive Director of Global Sales and Service, Cummins, Real Leadership
What happens when an open mic poet, a foster mom to more than 14 kids, and the daughter of Muhammad Ali's bodyguard becomes a top executive in the global heavy industrial sector? You get Erica Baird —...
9 Jun 52min
Dan Seidel, Global Chief Operating Officer of HelloFresh, Real Leadership
What does it take to run a supply chain where every input is perishable, every customer is different, and every week the entire operation resets? Meet Dan Seidel, Global Chief Operating Officer at Hel...
19 Mai 48min
Katie Stratton, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer at Shipt, Real Leadership
Episode Description What happens when a leader who spent a decade inside one of the most influential technology companies in history decides to bring that playbook to the world of same-day delivery? K...
5 Mai 51min
Nathan Fulton, CEO of Fulton Technology, Real Leadership
What does it take to turn a layoff into a company? Nathan Fulton had $5,000 and the willingness to see opportunity where others saw scrap metal. In 1999, he and his wife Jane founded Fulton Technolo...
21 Apr 34min
Katie Distler, Chief Sustainability Officer at Technimark, Real Leadership
How does a lifelong conservationist and fly fisher end up leading sustainability for a global plastics manufacturing company? Katie Distler didn’t stumble into the role. She swam upstream to get there...
7 Apr 48min
Carles Farre, Division President at HP Solutions Hybrid Systems, Real Leadership
Most leaders spend the early years of their career trying to accelerate forward. Carles Farré stepped away. Just a few years into his career at HP, he and his wife made an unconventional decision: the...
24 Mar 43min
Shawn Khan, CEO & President of Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery Corp, Real Leadership
Shawn Khan’s entrepreneurial journey started from the ground up in a way most founders never experience. He didn’t inherit a company, raise venture capital, or even understand the industry he was ste...
10 Mar 32min
