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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…
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His Business Partner Died at 38. It Changed How He Led | Boldr CEO David Sudolsky (opens the original)
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David Sudolsky was building a company with his best friend when everything changed in an instant. His business partner died suddenly at 38—and what David heard at the funeral forced him to question everything he believed about success. Today, David is Founder and CEO of Boldr. He shares how that loss changed the company he built, why he believes traditional outsourcing gets people wrong, what worries him about AI, and how fatherhood has transformed the way he leads. It’s a conversation about amb
The Leadership Mistake Your Team Never Forgets | Booz Allen CPO Aimee George Leary (opens the original)
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What you say as a leader may take them seconds to forget...OR stay with someone on your team for decades. Aimee George Leary is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton , where she leads the people strategy for more than 35,000 employees . In this episode of Lead The Team , she shares the painful early-career moment that permanently changed how she leads. After honestly telling executives that a critical project was behind schedule, Aimee received a devastatin voi
How Great Leaders Stay Calm in a Crisis | GitLab CISO Chaim Mazal (opens the original)
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What do you do when everything goes wrong...and everyone is looking to you for answers? Chaim Mazal knows that feeling. As Chief Information Security Officer at GitLab , he operates in a world where one alert can suddenly mean it’s “all hands on deck.” In this episode of Lead The Team, Chaim shares the story of a major cybersecurity incident at a previous company where sensitive customer data was exposed. At one point, the potential impact appeared to include more than 3,000 customers. Teams wor
Why This CEO Became an Intern | Puneet Raj, Fieldwire (opens the original)
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When Puneet Raj became CEO of Fieldwire after its acquisition by Hilti, he inherited a successful 250-person startup facing a pivotal transition: the founders were leaving, employees were worried about losing the startup culture, and a new leader was walking in. Instead of arriving as the new boss with all the answers, Puneet introduced himself as an intern. For six months, he rotated through Fieldwire’s teams, learned the business from the ground up, listened to the people who had made it succe
HP Solutions President Manoj Leelanivas - How to Lead Through Uncertainty (opens the original)
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How do you lead through uncertainty when the path forward isn’t clear? Manoj Leelanivas has done it at extraordinary scale. Today he’s President of HP Solutions . Before HP, he helped lead a major transformation at Juniper Networks, moving into new markets, building belief across thousands of employees, and helping build a new enterprise business approaching $3B in revenue in 5 years ! In this episode, Manoj shares the leadership lessons behind that transformation, including why people don’t res
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