Podcast
Leadership That Wins the Workplace, Part 2 with CEO Doug Conant
- Pariveda CEO Margaret Rogers continues the conversation with Doug Conant in Part 2 of this two-part episode. Doug is the Founder and CEO of Conant Leadership, former CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He has led at the highest levels of Campbell Soup Company, Nabisco Foods, and Avon.
About the episode
In this episode, Doug takes listeners inside the executive coaching work he’s known for and the personal leadership model he teaches leaders to build and actually use in real time. Drawing on decades of experience, Doug explores why many accomplished executives feel stuck despite their success, and how returning to their own life story can unlock clarity, confidence, and more consistent leadership behavior.
This conversation focuses on the inner work of leadership, the responsibility leaders have to own their growth, and what it really means to stay anchored in who you are while leading complex organizations through uncertainty.
You’ll learn
- Why many senior leaders feel stuck even after decades of experience
- How to translate self-awareness into consistent leadership behavior
- What it means to be anchored in who you are as a leader
- Why Doug believes your life story is inseparable from your leadership story
- How executives can stop searching for what’s missing and lead from what they already have
Episode outline
00:07 Welcome to Part 2 with Doug Conant
01:12 Building a personal leadership model and using it in real-time decisions
05:27 Getting unstuck by returning to your life story
08:39 The Importance of Personal Identity in Leadership
10:33 Doug’s leadership flywheel: what it is and how it works
14:25 Lightning round: books, vulnerability, and a favorite quote
15:40 Closing
Episode links
- Conant Leadership
Doug Conant Resources
- The Blueprint
- TouchPoints
- The Blueprint Boot Camp – June 2026
Referenced leadership organizations
Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance (HALA
Referenced books
- The Speed of Trust by Steven Covey
- Mindsets by Carol Dweck
About the guest
Doug Conant is Founder & CEO of ConantLeadership and is the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and was twice-named a Top 100 Most Influential Author in the World. He has served as President of Nabisco Foods, President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and Chairman of Avon Products, and has served on countless for-profit and nonprofit boards.
Doug is also a seasoned teacher. He is a former instructor of leadership at the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance and he teaches the concepts advanced in his book The Blueprint in his signature leadership development course, The BLUEPRINT Boot Camp. He is also a LinkedIn Learning Instructor and the instructor of our STEPS leadership program for Administrative Professionals. Deeply engaged in the contemporary leadership conversation as a teacher, speaker, and mentor, Doug speaks daily to professionals on the front lines of the modern workplace.
About the Doing Good by Doing Better podcast
Hosted by Margaret Rogers, CEO of Pariveda, the Doing Good by Doing Better podcast highlights founders, executives, and innovators who share hard lessons, bold ideas, and real strategies for purpose-driven growth.
Every conversation offers practical insights you can use to solve forward. In each episode you’ll meet leaders who prove that being impact-driven and achieving meaningful success are not mutually exclusive.
Follow Doing Good by Doing Better on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and join us every other week as we keep learning how to do good by doing better.
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