We’re starting this new season of the podcast with a twist. We’re giving you a behind the scenes look at our founder David Novak. In this podcast Ashley Butler Novak interviews her father and gets him to share the leadership lessons that helped him become one of the most successful and admired CEO’s in the world. On this season of the David Novak Leadership Podcast we'll have a quarterly Q&A where David will answer your most pressing leadership questions. You can submit your questions by following David Novak and commenting on his Twitter, Instagram or Facebook pages.

David Novak is Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, a digital leadership development platform he created to help people move from Me to We and become the best leaders they can be. He is Co-Founder, retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC), one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories. Novak’s passion is to make the world a better place by developing leaders at all ages through David Novak Leadership, his family’s Lift-a-Life Foundation, Lead4Change, Global Game Changers and The Novak Leadership Institute at the University of Missouri.

A renowned expert on leadership and recognition culture, Novak is also a bestselling leadership book author. His highly respected and critically acclaimed books include The New York Times bestseller Taking People With You, The Only Way to Achieve Big Things, The Education of an Accidental CEO, Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office and his latest parable, O GREAT ONE! A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition.

Novak has been recognized as “2012 CEO of the Year” by Chief Executive magazine, one of the world’s “30 Best CEOs” by Barron’s, one of the “Top People in Business” by FORTUNE and one of the “100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review. He received the prestigious 2015 Horatio Alger Award for his commitment to philanthropy and higher education.

David is the host of the David Novak Leadership Podcast. You can subscribe to David’s bi-weekly podcast, leadership newsletter and learn more about his online courses at DavidNovakLeadership.com

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