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Best-selling WSJ author, Leadership Speaker & Podcast Host, Entrepreneur & Professor

Patrick Leddin

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Leadership expert helps you to discover practical ways to improve skills, with a five-week challenge and help you become the leader you were meant to be.

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With a combination of academic, practical, military, and corporate experience, Patrick Leddin, PhD is uniquely qualified to teach and inspire individuals at all organizational levels to be the leader they are meant to be. His impressive leadership experience ranges from leading soldiers in the U.S. Army to working with senior leaders for KPMG Consulting, FranklinCovey, and his two successful leadership consulting businesses.

Reasons to book Patrick Leddin

  • Patrick Leddin, PhD is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and Amazon #1 new release in Workplace Culture author of The 5-Week Leadership Challenge.
  • He has a more than 19-year relationship with the FranklinCovey organization that has included the positions of Director of Strategic Partnerships and Senior Delivery Consultant.
  • He is 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.

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.

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 as well as A Winning Culture in Government, Oliver’s Spot: The 5 Ps Leading Teams to Top Results and Oliver’s Spot for the Public Sector.

His speaking engagements and consulting work have allowed him to partner with clients and present to countless audiences in the United States, Canada, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Great Britain, Aruba, Iceland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Guam, and many other countries around the world. Past clients include Vector, General Electric, Samsung, U.S. Secret Service, Penn State Leadership Academy, Trilogy Health Services, Ecolab, Long John Silver, and Boston Consulting Group.

Patrick is the founder and host of the weekly Leadership Lab Podcast with a 1% Global Rank. He has had the privilege to interview and talk leadership with more than 120 guests to date, including Stephan M.R. Covey, Patrick Lencioni, Marshall Goldsmith, and more. Patrick has more than 100,000 followers on LinkedIn due to his great content and teachings.

In addition to his work at Leddin Group, Patrick serves as Associate Professor and Director of the Practice of Business Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Leadership. He brings his years of practical experience to the classroom, allowing his students to meld theory with real-world implementation.

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5 Practices of an Impactful Leader

Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be!

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:

  • Gain clarity and knowledge to better lead themselves and others.
  • Be inspired to own their leadership story by taking full responsibility for their mindset, behaviors, and results.
  • Understand and appreciate the leadership journey that they are on and how to put their daily challenges into a long-term perspective.

Key Themes:

  • Leadership Is Your Decision, Not Your Title
  • The Power of Your Story
  • Think Like a Leader
  • Enjoy the Journey

Ideal Audience: This message applies across all industries and to everyone who is responsible for leading themselves and others. This includes aspiring leaders, high potentials, and existing leaders.
Format: 45-to-60-minute keynote. Follow-up options include a two-day workshop titled The Two-Day Leadership Challenge: Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be and an online course titled The 5-Week Leadership Challenge.

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Step Up and Disrupt

Trust Your Gut, Take a Risk, and Change the World!

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:

  • Assess gaps in their mindset, actions, and results through the lens of disruption.
  • See opportunities for disruption in their world, within their team, and with their customers for greater success.
  • Commit to carving out their own disruptive path and be better prepared to help others to do the same.
  • Use a new disruptive framework and 16 disruptive behaviors to inspire, encourage, drive positive innovation in their organization.

Ideal Audience: This message applies across all industries and to everyone who is responsible for leading themselves and others. This includes aspiring leaders, high potentials, and existing leaders.
Format:45-to-60-minute keynote; workshops

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I invited Dr. Patrick Leddin to speak at our company’s annual conference. What a terrific experience! The 5 Week Leadership Challenge offers a practical process to address and improve leadership skills across all roles in an organization. Our leaders left the experience with an actionable framework to begin a powerful leadership journey. Both engaging and insightful!

Shawn Moon

CEO Zerorez Carpet Cleaning

Patrick and I were joint mentors for about 20 first year students at Vanderbilt University. One of the things that made our group dynamic was that Patrick always had this really approachable style. From day one, he was sharing some very personal and intimate stories about his life, which created a lot of trust in

Aaron Chasan

Vanderbilt University

On several occasions, I have hired Patrick to present to and develop my leaders. He brings the perfect mixture of expertise, humor, storytelling, and actionable ideas. Leaders love working with and learning from him.

United States Secret Service

Patrick Leddin is a dynamic and engaging speaker. He connects with people, helps them to see what’s possible, and challenges them to take their performance to new levels. He’s a rare blend of IQ and EQ who engages both the mind and heart.

The Walt Disney Company

Strategy and Global Development Senior Analyst
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