Take Command: A Leadership Podcast
Embark on a journey of real-life business insights and inspiring personal growth narratives. Welcome to Dale Carnegie Take Command: A Leadership Podcast, where we seek to uncover what leadership means in today’s world. Hosted by Joe Hart, CEO of Dale Carnegie, we’ll be talking to diverse leaders across various industries to help unlock your potential for success. We’ll be sharing real-life insights into leadership—which in turn can help spark the next level of your growth as a leader.
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Leading Together: Resilience, Reinvention, and the Power of Partnership
<p>About the Guests </p><p>David Anderson and Stephen Holgate are longtime Dale Carnegie leaders, business partners, franchise owners, and master trainers. They met in the London office in their twenties and quickly discovered a shared ambition to become business owners. Their careers later took them across the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, and markets throughout Asia-Pacific, where they built experience in sales, facilitation, leadership development, and multinational client partnerships. </p><p>Stephen entered Dale Carnegie after reading How to Win Friends and Influence People and pursuing the organization as the place where he most wanted to work. Hi...
90 Years of Influence: How One Book Changed Two Lives
<p>Two journeys. One enduring set of principles. </p><p>Guy Fieri is known for his unmistakable energy, entrepreneurial drive, and success across television and hospitality. In this conversation, he looks back on the period when he knew how to run operations but struggled to lead a large team. A mentor pointed him toward How to Win Friends and Influence People, and the lessons reshaped the way he listened, communicated, and brought out the best in others. </p><p>Lisa Sun is the founder and CEO of GRAVITAS and the author of GRAVITAS: The 8 Strengths That Redefine Confidence. She first en...
Building Beyond Today: What It Takes to Create a Lasting Legacy
<p>About the guest</p><p>Cheryl McKissack Daniel is President and Chief Executive Officer of McKissack & McKissack, a construction company with a family history spanning five generations. A civil engineer by training, she earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees in engineering before beginning her career in New York and later joining the family business.</p><p>Under her leadership, the company has contributed to major projects including LaGuardia Airport, the World Trade Center site, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Cheryl is also chair of the New York Building Congress and the author of Th...
From Learning Disabilities to CEO: The Leadership Mindset Behind Growth
<p>About the Guest </p><p>Marc Cooper is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Solomon Partners, an independent investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and capital advisory services. Since becoming CEO in 2016, he has led the firm’s transformation from approximately 35 bankers to more than 200 while expanding its industry coverage from two sectors to more than twelve. </p><p>Before becoming CEO, Marc led Solomon Partners’ Consumer Retail Group and advised companies around the world on major strategic transactions. He is a member of The Conference Board’s CEO Center, the CNBC CEO Council, and the Economic Club of...
An Ounce More Courage Than Fear
<p>About the Guest </p><p>Jayney Howson is the Chief Learning Officer at ServiceNow and the architect behind ServiceNow University, a free AI-powered learning platform designed to prepare people for the future of work. Under her leadership, the platform has grown to approximately two million learners and is on a path toward three million. She oversees learning programs that help customers, partners, employees, and aspiring professionals develop the skills needed to succeed in an AI-powered economy. </p><p>Before moving into learning and talent development, Jayney built a career spanning hospitality, marketing, communications, sales, and leadership. Her diverse experiences ha...
Feel the Fear, Do It Anyway: Leading Through Discomfort
<p>About the Guest</p> <p>Cybele Negris is the CEO and Co-Founder of Webnames.ca, Canada's original dot-CA registrar and a provider of hundreds of domain extensions, web hosting, email, security products, and other online solutions. A serial entrepreneur, seasoned board member, speaker, mentor, and columnist, she has grown Webnames into a multi-million-dollar company serving some of the country's largest corporations, governments, law firms, and global Fortune 500 brands.</p> <p>A Hall of Fame inductee of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and a nine-time winner of the PROFIT W100, Cybele serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of the Royal Ca...
Your Story is Your Superpower: Leading with Curiosity
<p>About the Guest:</p> <p>Howard Hochhauser is the CEO of Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics. After serving as the company's CFO and COO for more than a decade, he became CEO and quickly led a cultural and business transformation centered on customer focus, employee engagement, and innovation. Under his leadership, Ancestry has renewed growth while leveraging artificial intelligence to make historical records more accessible, searchable, and meaningful for millions of people around the world.</p> <p>Howard is passionate about building organizations rooted in curiosity, transparency, and humility. He believes leadership is about...
Hire People Smarter Than You: Humble Leadership in the Age of AI
<p>About the Guest:</p> <p>Ania Smith is the CEO of TaskRabbit, the global marketplace connecting people who need everyday tasks done with skilled local "Taskers." Born in Poland, she immigrated to Sioux Falls, South Dakota at 12, learned English, and went on to study business — including an exchange back in Poland — before earning her MBA at Wharton. She began her career in international development, moved through investment banking and consulting at L.E.K., and held leadership roles at Expedia, Walmart, and Airbnb before taking the top job at TaskRabbit at the end of August 2020.</p> <p>Ania is know...
Do the Right Thing, Every Time: Lessons on Leadership and Agency
<p>About the Guest:</p> <p>Eric Ries has been a force in entrepreneurship and innovation for over twenty years. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of The Lean Startup, The Leader’s Guide, and The Startup Way. His ideas have shaped how startups and large companies approach growth, decision-making, and innovation.</p> <p>As a founder, Eric has applied his principles with ventures like The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI research lab; the Lean Startup Co.; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where many of the concepts that became th...
No Shortcuts, No Excuses: Building What Lasts
<p>About the Guest<br> Janice Bryant Howroyd is the Founder and CEO of The ActOne Group, a global workforce solutions company operating in more than 30 countries. She is recognized as the first African American woman to build a multi-billion-dollar enterprise.</p> <p>A best-selling author and global speaker, she has been honored for entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation, and has advised leaders across business, government, and education. Her work focuses on connecting people to opportunity through a deeply human-centered approach to business.</p> <p>What You Will Learn:</p> Why “no shortcuts, no excuses” is a leadership mindset for long-term succ...
