David Novak Leadership Podcast

John Cahill is an extraordinary leader having lead some of the worlds biggest and most successful food and beverage companies. As Chairman & CEO of Kraft Foods, John led the merger with Heinz to form North America's third largest food and beverage company. John is currently the vice-chairman of The Kraft Heinz Company. Prior to joining Kraft Foods, John held a number of financial and operating roles at PepsiCo, including Chairman and Chief Executive of The Pepsi Bottling Group. John also serves as the lead director of American Airlines, director of Colgate, Palmolive, and Chairman of the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation. Leave David a question for our quarterly Q&A episodes by commenting on this platform. Or tweet him at @DavidNovakOGO Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Tom Brady was the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots for 20 seasons. He played in a record 9 Super Bowls, winning 6 of them, named MVP four times and has been selected to the pro-bowl 14 times. He has the highest combined regular and postseason winning percentage of any quarterback in NFL history. A leader both on the field and off the field, Tom launched TB12 Sports to help people achieve peak performance at any age. Leave David a question for our quarterly Q&A episodes by commenting on this platform. Or tweet him at @DavidNovakOGO Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Rick Pitino is one of the most successful coaches in the history of college basketball. He is the first coach to have taken three different schools (Providence, Kentucky and Louisville) to the NCAA Final Four and the first to win a NCAA Championship at two different schools (the last of which was later vacated). Coach Pitino was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013. Prior to being named the head coach at Iona, Pitino was the head coach of Panathinaikos, one of the leading teams in the EuroLeague and has been named the head coach of the Greek National team for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Pitino has served as head coach for the University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, Providence College, Boston University, Hawaii and the NBA's New York Knicks and Boston Celtics. Leave David a question for our quarterly Q&A episodes by commenting on this platform. Or tweet him at @DavidNovakOGO Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Kelly Coffey is the Chief Executive Officer of City National Bank, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). As the fourth CEO in City National’s 65-year history and the bank's first female chief executive officer, Kelly has been working to establish a leadership team that can strategically embrace new technology and changing marketplaces at home and abroad while maintaining the core values that have helped to define City National's success thus far. City National Bank has more than $60 billion in assets, 5,200 colleagues and 72 offices in seven states and Washington, D.C. Kelly has been named three times to American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Finance List and to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual list of the most influential Angelenos. She began her career in mergers and acquisitions and spent six years working in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also chaired J.P. Morgan’s Reputation Risk Committee in North America and led the investment bank’s Women’s Network. Leave David a question for our quarterly Q&A episodes by commenting on this platform. Or tweet him at @DavidNovakOGO Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

David Solomon is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., one of the most revered financial institutions in the world. Since his appointment to CEO in 2018 and Chairman in 2019, David has taken steps towards reforming the culture at Goldman Sachs to be more collaborative and diverse internally, and smarter with financial technology externally. Under his leadership, Goldman Sachs signed a historic deal with Apple to create the first-ever Apple Credit Card. David joined Goldman Sachs as a Partner in 1999 after rising through the ranks at Bear Stearns. Often perceived as an organizational outsider, David has successfully established himself as a leader who is transparent, strategic, and an effective communicator, with big plans for the future of Goldman Sachs as a financial leader in a changing world. Leave David a question for our quarterly Q&A episodes by commenting on this platform. Or tweet him at @DavidNovakOGO Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Lynne Doughtie is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KPMG LLP —one of the world’s leading professional services firms providing tax, audit and advisory services to many of the world’s most iconic companies. Elected to her role in 2015, Lynne leads more than 32,000 partners and professionals across the United States. She drives KPMG’s inclusive and purpose-driven culture, which is defined by a commitment to corporate responsibility and to maintaining the highest levels of professionalism and quality in KPMG’s client service and support of the capital markets. Lynne has received numerous accolades, including Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business, Accounting Today magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People, the National Association of Corporate Directors’ 100 most influential people in the boardroom, and “Woman of Achievement” by the National Association of Female Executives. Lynne is dedicated to seeing increasingly more women rise to senior leadership positions in companies across industry spectrums, and is seeking to develop women in her own company through KPMG’s Women’s Leadership Summit and the Executive Leadership Institute for Women.

Henry Kravis of the world’s greatest business leaders and philanthropists. He co-founded one of the most renown global investment companies, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR) in 1976 and currently serves as KKR’s Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Kravis has been referred to as the father of private equity, an industry that he helped pioneer. Under the leadership of Henry Kravis, KKR has grown to a $200B private equity giant with substantial investment interest in over 100 companies and nearly a million employees around the world. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of First Data Corporation and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus, or trustee of several other cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including the Business Council, Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School (co-chairman), Mount Sinai Hospital, the Partnership for New York City (former chairman), the Partnership Fund for New York City (founder), Rockefeller University (vice chairman), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (chairman), and the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management in China. Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Henry Kravis of the world’s greatest business leaders and philanthropists. He co-founded one of the most renown global investment companies, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR) in 1976 and currently serves as KKR’s Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Kravis has been referred to as the father of private equity, an industry that he helped pioneer. Under the leadership of Henry Kravis, KKR has grown to a $200B private equity giant with substantial investment interest in over 100 companies and nearly a million employees around the world. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of First Data Corporation and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus, or trustee of several other cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including the Business Council, Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School (co-chairman), Mount Sinai Hospital, the Partnership for New York City (former chairman), the Partnership Fund for New York City (founder), Rockefeller University (vice chairman), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (chairman), and the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management in China. Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

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 Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Bill Acquavella is President of Acquavella Galleries, a family-owned gallery founded by his father, Nicholas Acquavella, in the early 1920’s. When Bill joined his father in 1960, he expanded the focus of the gallery to include major works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including masters of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Today, the entire scope of 20th century art is represented, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. For over ninety years, Acquavella Galleries has sold major paintings and sculpture to private collectors and museums worldwide in addition to presenting museum-quality exhibitions. Since his father passed away in 1987, Bill has been joined by his three children, who work as directors at Acquavella Galleries. Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Edward D. Herlihy is co-chairman of the Executive Committee and has been a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1984, focusing on some of the largest and most complex bank and financial institution mergers and acquisitions and recapitalizations throughout the United States. He is often called upon to represent companies involved in takeover battles and proxy contests, including investment banking firms in connection with a wide variety of financial institution matters. Mr. Herlihy writes and lectures regularly on issues involving banking and financial matters. Mr. Herlihy graduated from Hobart College in 1969 (B.A.) and from George Washington University Law School in 1972 (J.D.). Listen to other leaders sharing their insights at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/podcast Follow David on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO Take our FREE Leadership Assessment at: https://davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Ryan Serhant is an American real estate broker, bestselling author, producer, and star of Bravo’s two-time Emmy Nominated reality television series, Million Dollar Listing New York, and its spin-off, Sell It Like Serhant. Ryan is the leading member of The Serhant Team—an NYC-based, bi-coastal real estate group that has consistently ranked as the #1 sales team in New York and among the top five teams nationwide. The Serhant Team consists of more than 60 experienced agents and marketing support staff and has sold over $1.6B worth of real estate in the last two years alone. The Serhant Team New Development group is also a prominent force in new construction sales, with more than $16B and 50 projects across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Miami, and Los Angeles to its name. In 2018, Ryan started his own entertainment and media company, Serhant Media Group (SMG), as an in-house marketing arm to both his real estate and television endeavors. In addition to being a reality television star and running his own team, Ryan has developed several smartphone apps and is a frequent guest on the real estate segments of 20/20, CNN, CNBC, The Today Show, The Insider, Bloomberg TV, and is often quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wall Street Journal China. He is also an official contributor to Forbes, regularly writing columns on real estate, sales, and branding. Ryan is an active supporter of nonprofit organizations including DKMS, Operation Smile, Save the Children, Make-A-Wish, The Human Rights Campaign, Ronald McDonald House, Habitat for Humanity, Pink Agenda and UNICEF, among others. Ryan Serhant was born in Houston, Texas, grew up outside Boston, and graduated from Hamilton College in 2006 with degrees in English Literature and Theatre. He currently lives in New York City with his wife, Emilia, and their daughter, Zena. Connect with David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO See more Podcasts: https://davidnovakleadership.com/leadership-podcast/ Take our Free Recognition Survey: https://davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Steve McCormick was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC (RSCS) in January 2013. Steve previously served as CEO of Borden Dairy Company, President of Weight Watchers North America, and President of Odwalla. He also spent over 22 years with both Coca-Cola Enterprises and Pepsi Bottling Group in various supply chain leadership assignments. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Winthrop University and serves as a director of Freeman. In his time leading RSCS, Steve has transformed the organization to become the world’s premiere restaurant supply chain company. He has also been the architect of RSCS’ cultural strategy, World Class with Class, focusing on the core values of integrity, transparency, collaboration, recognition, and achieving break-through results. Connect with David on Twitter: twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO See more Podcasts: davidnovakleadership.com/leadership-podcast/ Take our Free Recognition Survey: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Steve Trager has been with Republic Bank since 1987 and now serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer where he remains actively involved in the operation and retail management of Republic’s forty-five banking centers in Kentucky, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee with total assets of $5.1 billion. After completion of undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin where he received his B.A. degree in finance, Mr. Trager went on to receive his J.D. degree from the University of Louisville School of Law. For a period of two years, he was associated with the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs. Mr. Trager is past chairman for the Kentucky Bankers Association, the University of Louisville Board of Overseers, the 2016 Fund for the Arts Campaign and Leadership Kentucky; and a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ Louisville Branch and the Louisville Regional Airport Authority. Mr. Trager currently serves on the Bellarmine University Board of Trustees. He is involved in local community nonprofit organizations and was recognized as the Louisvillian of the year in 2017 and was awarded the Lincoln Foundation’s 2018 Spirit of Excellence Award. Connect with David on Twitter: twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO See more Podcasts: davidnovakleadership.com/leadership-podcast/ Take our Free Recognition Survey: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Bonnie Hill is Co-Founder of Icon Blue, a brand marketing company based in Los Angeles. She has over 26 years’ experience serving on twelve different corporate boards and a wide-ranging career in business, government, education, and philanthropy. Bonnie has served as Dean of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, and prior to that, Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency for the State of California. She has held a variety of presidential appointments and has chaired the Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee for the SEC and served on the board of directors of NASD Regulation, Inc. Prior to working in Washington, D.C., she was a vice president with Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation. Bonnie currently serves on the board of directors of Banc of California and the Rand Corporation. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Millstein Center at Columbia Law School, and the advisory board of the “Boards that Lead” Program at the Wharton Executive Education Program. Connect with David on Twitter: twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO See more Podcasts: davidnovakleadership.com/leadership-podcast/ Take our Free Recognition Survey: davidnovakleadership.com/survey