FranklinCovey On Leadership
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Tune in to FranklinCovey On Leadership, where host Will Houghteling interviews top business thinkers, best-selling authors, researchers, and speakers. Each episode explores practical insights on building resilient cultures, establishing trust with teams and clients, driving breakthrough results, and discovering what makes truly great leadership.
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Episodes
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Mar 24, 2026 • 42min
Chris Anderson: How Great Leaders Turn Ideas Into Impact
Chris Anderson, former journalist and longtime TED leader who grew TED into a global platform, shares what makes ideas spread. He explores clear, persuasive communication, storytelling as a leadership skill, and the risks of info overload. He also discusses radical generosity, putting talks online, and the fast pace of AI.
Mar 17, 2026 • 39min
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Stop Playing It Safe With Your Career
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, seasoned tech executive and current CEO of Xero, former leader at Google and StubHub, and founder of theBoardlist. She argues that playing it safe can stall growth. Short takes on choosing the right CEO role, building a risk muscle, reshaping teams during restructuring, treating AI as opportunity, and expanding markets with new technology.
18 snips
Mar 10, 2026 • 35min
Jeetu Patel: Lead Through AI or Risk Irrelevance
Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco who led AI and platform transformations, discusses Cisco’s shift to an AI-first, integrated platform. He talks about opening ecosystems to partners. He explains how AI agents will change work, why leaders must separate megatrends from hype, and how culture change needs top-down clarity plus grassroots participation.
14 snips
Mar 3, 2026 • 42min
Dr. Vivek Murthy: The Loneliness Epidemic at Work
Dr. Vivek Murthy, two-time U.S. Surgeon General and author focused on public health and social connection, explains why workplace loneliness harms productivity and health. He discusses leaders prioritizing belonging, simple storytelling rituals to humanize teams, AI companions’ limits, and youth mental health risks from social media. Practical culture steps are framed as strategic priorities.
Feb 24, 2026 • 42min
Kara Nortman: Founder Mentality in Women’s Sports
Kara Nortman, a venture investor-turned-entrepreneur who co-founded Angel City FC and Monarch Collective, shares her journey from venture capital to women's sports. She describes how a World Cup moment sparked curiosity. She talks about recruiting influential partners, applying a founder mindset to sports, building community-driven products, and balancing purpose with career choices.
9 snips
Feb 17, 2026 • 47min
Zack Kass: Thriving in an Age of Unmetered Intelligence
Zack Kass, former OpenAI go-to-market leader and author on AI and the future of work, explores how abundant intelligence will reshape strategy, talent, and purpose. He contrasts incremental AI wins with exponential reinvention. He discusses cultural barriers to adoption, where to focus investment, and why human traits like agency, empathy, courage, and creativity will define leadership as cognition becomes abundant.
11 snips
Feb 10, 2026 • 37min
Robert Sanchez: Turning Failure Into Competitive Advantage
Robert Sanchez, chairman and CEO of Ryder System, a leader who transformed a truck rental firm into a diversified logistics partner. He talks about embracing disruption, narrowing geographic focus, balancing build vs buy for innovation, structuring strategy work, and creating a culture that grants permission to experiment and learn.
14 snips
Feb 3, 2026 • 39min
David Neeleman: Scaling Culture Without Losing the Soul
David Neeleman, serial airline founder behind JetBlue, Azul and Breeze, shares his leadership journey and culture playbook. He talks about rebuilding after setbacks, harnessing attention differences for innovation, embedding customer obsession, and keeping founding DNA as teams scale. He also covers crisis lessons from JetBlue’s meltdown and practical rituals that keep leaders close to operations.
11 snips
Jan 27, 2026 • 40min
Julie Zhuo: Caring Without Lowering the Bar
Julie Zhuo, former VP of Product Design at Facebook and author of The Making of a Manager, shares hard-earned lessons from scaling teams. She discusses balancing high standards with genuine care. Short takes cover feedback culture, shifting from doer to multiplier, clarity exercises for teams, and thoughtful experimentation with AI.
10 snips
Jan 20, 2026 • 47min
Stephen M. R. Covey: Building Trust, Inspiring Teams, and Leading with Impact
Stephen M. R. Covey, bestselling author and leadership expert, shares insights from his upbringing as the son of Stephen R. Covey. He discusses how trust transforms organizations, revealing that employees are 14x more engaged when they trust their leaders. Stephen also emphasizes the importance of moving from command-and-control to a trust-and-inspire leadership style. He introduces practical behaviors for building trust and explains why trust is the new currency of our time, vital for inspiring teams and achieving lasting results.
