Speakers

Dr. Patrick Leddin, PhD is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The 5-Week Leadership Challenge, and is a FranklinCovey Senior Advisor on Culture and Leadership. He is also the host of the popular, weekly FranklinCovey podcast, C-Suite Conversations with Dr. Patrick Leddin. He was an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Practice of Business Studies at Vanderbilt University where he taught Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Leadership. He led The Disruption Project at the university, where he studied how people ranging from household names to unsung heroes succeed in the face of disruption, having conducted over 350 interviews with positive disruptors from around the world. As the co-author with James Patterson in the new book, Disrupt Everything - and Win: Take Control of Your Future, Leddin uses his research from the project as real world, relatable stories, and case studies to move its readers to disrupt.