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Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)

Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)

Real CEOs. Real Stories. 2025 Gold Stevie Award winner Ben Fanning reveals tools from 600+ interviews with leaders at Honeywell, HP, IBM, Dunkin’ & L’Oréal—playbooks for thriving through growth, high-stakes calls, and make-or-break moments.

Ben Fanning

486 episodesEN

Show overview

Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts) has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 486 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 320 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 34 min and 44 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 63 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 98 episodes published. Published by Ben Fanning.

Episodes
486
Running
2020–2026 · 6y
Median length
39 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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 L’Oréal. 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/

Latest Episodes

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Apple’s One Change Threatened Everything He Built | Movable Ink Founder Vivek Sharma

Oct 25, 202647 min

Amway’s Global CMO: Why Your Past Success Can Hold You Back | Melodie Nakhle

Oct 20, 202632 min

The $5B Bet That Changed Healthcare | CEO Don Trigg Veradigm

Oct 13, 202632 min

GE Gave Him 6 Weeks to Sell the Business | Fiserv CRO Robert Clarkson

Oct 4, 202640 min

The Leadership Lesson I Learned the Hard Way | David Lehman, President & COO of Birdeye

Sep 29, 202634 min

The Leadership Test You Can’t Prepare For | Guild CEO Bijal Shah

Sep 27, 202635 min

His Business Partner Died at 38. It Changed How He Led | Boldr CEO David Sudolsky

Sep 22, 202643 min

The Leadership Mistake Your Team Never Forgets | Booz Allen CPO Aimee George Leary

Sep 20, 202625 min

How Great Leaders Stay Calm in a Crisis | GitLab CISO Chaim Mazal

Sep 13, 202632 min

Why This CEO Became an Intern | Puneet Raj, Fieldwire

Sep 8, 202630 min

HP Solutions President Manoj Leelanivas - How to Lead Through Uncertainty

Sep 1, 202637 min

The Decision That Cost the Quarter, but Saved the Business | SAP's Mark Niemiec

Aug 30, 202630 min

The Leadership Rule That Changed Tony Ball's Career | CEO of Entrust

Aug 25, 202637 min

The Multi-Million Dollar Failure That Started a Billion-Dollar Company | Anthony Woods, Co-Founder of Grafana Labs

Aug 23, 202642 min

The Customer Conversation That Changed a Company | CEO Motus, Phong Nguyen

Aug 18, 202629 min

The Quarter From Hell That Created a $500M AI Company | Gong's Amit Bendov

Aug 15, 202637 min

The AI Security Threat Leaders Aren't Ready For | Dennis Kozak, CEO of Ivanti

Aug 11, 202639 min

One Cell Tower Survived | Chris Hillabrant, CEO of Crown Castle

Aug 9, 202629 min

The Impossible Decision That Shaped This CEO | Doug Braun

Aug 4, 202633 min

How to Beat a Monopoly and Outsmart AI | CEO, Thryv Joe Walsh

Aug 2, 202643 min
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