Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan, here to bring you another edition of three more questions with David Novak.

David, it's great to be with you today. We've got a fun conversation on our hands today.

Absolutely. It's with Tom Nolan, the CEO of Kendra Scott. And Tom is the leader I really admire because he leads the right way.

I mean, he really believes in people, cares about people,

and is passionate about making sure that he serves them versus them serving him. And I think

he really gets what leadership is all about. I totally agree, David. He actually says in the

episode that his employees are his boss. And even though he's a CEO, that's truly

how he functions in his role. He is there to serve his people and really truly believes that

connections with your employees and connections with your customers is what is actually going

to make the biggest difference on the bottom line. Yeah, I think the real

difference, Kula, with Tom, is that, you know, a lot of people say it, but he actually walks the

talk. I mean, this guy is a guy who really backs up what he says with action. And I think that's

what really makes him special. And if you're listening to this and hearing about connection, you know, you might be thinking, that's sweet. Like making connections with your

customers and employees is like a good thing to do. But when we say that it's what has driven

results for Kendra Scott, they have experienced double digit growth for 44 months in a row.

All 44 of those months, by the way, Tom Nolan has been

CEO. So this is a style of leadership that not only creates a really great work environment

for your people, but really does drive those bottom line results. And you know, Kula,

anybody in retail knows that if you get double digitdigit same store sales growth, you know,

44 months in a row on that you are just kicking some major league butt.

Exactly, exactly.

And David, I'm excited to get your take on some of the concepts that you and Tom talked about

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