#127: Dawn Hudson, Former CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America – Evolve your culture

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today’s guest is Dawn Hudson, the former President and CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America and former CMO of the NFL. Now, you don’t work for Pepsi unless you love competition. And Dawn absolutely has that competitive drive to keep pushing for better ideas and bigger impact. But she’s also passionate about helping leaders build cultures that allow EVERYONE to win. We may not even realize the ways we’ve allowed assumptions and biases to shape our team’s culture. But they’re real. If we aren’t intentional about eliminating them, they can hamper the growth of our people – and the growth of our organizations, too. Like every great leader, Dawn understands the power of a strong, diverse culture where everyone can win – and this conversation is full of practical ways YOU can build one. You’ll also learn: • Small ways our language can create gender bias in the workplace • Why you have to pay closer attention to your work culture, especially right now • What “office housework” is and what every leader needs to know about it • Key insights into generational shifts in consumers • What every woman needs to hear before her next performance review Take your learning further. Get proven leadership advice from these (free!) resources: The How Leaders Lead App: A vast library of 90-second leadership lessons to stay sharp on the go Daily Insight Emails: One small (but powerful!) leadership principle to focus on each day Whichever you choose, you can be sure you’ll get the trusted leadership advice you need to advance your career, develop your team, and grow your business.

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0:00.0	Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.
0:10.7	I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader.
0:18.6	That's what this podcast is all about.
0:22.6	My guest today is Don Hudson, the former president and CEO of Pepsi Cola North America and former CMO of the National
0:29.3	Football League. Now look, you don't work for Pepsi unless you love competition. And Don
0:35.6	absolutely has that competitive drive to keep pushing for better
0:39.2	ideas than bigger impact. But she's also passionate about helping leaders build cultures
0:44.6	that allow everyone to win. You know, we may not even realize the ways we've allowed assumptions
0:50.7	and bias to shape our team's culture. But they're real, and if we aren't intentional
0:56.5	about eliminating them, they can really hamper
0:59.4	the growth of your people and the growth
1:01.4	of your organization as well.
1:03.6	Like every great leader I know,
1:05.9	Don understands the power of a strong, diverse culture
1:09.8	where everyone can win.
1:11.5	And this conversation is full of practical ways you can build one.
1:16.3	So here's my conversation with my good friend and soon to be yours, Don Hudson.
1:27.2	Don, I understand you just went through this 100-year birthday celebration. Tell us about it.
1:33.2	In October of this year, my husband turned 75, and our daughter turned 25 within four days of each other.
1:40.9	So we thought, let's take her to Europe. And she's about to get married next year
1:46.6	to a guy she met at the Culinary Institute, New York. And she works for a YouTube chef as a kitchen
1:53.2	producer, and he works at Michelin Star restaurants, and they love food. And her fiancé had not
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