Best Selling WSJ author, Podcast Host, Entrepreneur, and Professor
Why Book this Speaker: For more than three decades, Patrick Leddin, PhD has been leading teams and studying leadership. His hands-on leadership experience has stretched from leading soldiers as a U.S. Army master parachutist, infantry, ranger-qualified officer to working with senior corporate leaders at KPMG Consulting, FranklinCovey, and his own companies.
Traveling From: TN
Fee Range: $15,000 – $20,000
Patrick Leddin, PhD is a Best-selling Wall Street Journal author, speaker, podcast host, entrepreneur, and professor. With a combination of academic, practical, military, and corporate experience, he is uniquely qualified to teach and inspire individuals at all organizational levels to be the leader they are meant to be.
Dr. Leddin’s impressive leadership experience ranges from leading soldiers as a U.S. Army airborne infantry ranger-qualified platoon leader to working with senior leaders for KPMG Consulting, FranklinCovey, and two successful leadership consulting businesses he co-founded with his wife Jamie. Patrick is the founder and host of the weekly Leadership Lab Podcast.
He has had the privilege to interview and talk leadership with more than 120 guests to date, including Stephan M.R. Covey, Patrick Lencioni, and Marshall Goldsmith. His past clients include Vector, General Electric, Samsung, The U.S. Secret Service, Penn State Leadership. Academy, Trilogy Health Services, Ecolab, Long John Silver, and Boston Consulting Group.
He has presented to countless audiences in the United States, Canada, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, and many other countries. Patrick is the author of The Wall Street Journal Best-seller The 5-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be and three additional books for the private and public sector.
In addition to his work at the Leddin Group, Patrick serves as Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Practice of Business Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Leadership. Patrick is an avid outdoorsman and mountain climber.
Write Your Leadership Story
Patrick Leddin, PhD is a powerful storyteller who takes his audiences on a journey that explores what it truly means to lead themselves and others effectively. Current and aspiring leaders will be drawn into the presentation as they reflect on their motivations, desires, and commitments. They will leave the presentation inspired to write their own leadership story and to achieve new levels of performance.
Participants will:
Step Up and Disrupt
In his keynote, Dr. Patrick Leddin will challenge you to think and act in new ways. He will share real life examples of disruptive leaders who trust their gut, blaze a new path, walk to the beat of their own drum, and bring out the best in others. These are people who have found what they love to do in their work and life, and choose every day to make a difference.
After attending this keynote, leaders will:
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