Hey everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast. A conversation, as you

know, designed to help leaders go further, faster, and I'm Andy Stanley and today I will

be your host because today I have my friend Dave Katz in the studio with me, which means

I get to ask the questions and we get to learn from Dave. So welcome Dave. Thanks, thanks

for having me really humbled and honored to be here. Yeah, it's going to be fun. I'm

excited about our audience getting to hear your story and get to know you. Dave is the

Executive Vice President and CFO of Coca-Cola Consolidated located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

He joined Coke Consolidated in January of 2013 and was just named CFO in January of this

year after serving in several different roles. But the cool thing about Dave, or one of

the cool things is he's actually spent nearly 25 years in the Coca-Cola business, which

means if you live in the city of Atlanta, we're practically related. Exactly. He's worked

all over the world in this extraordinary organization and I made my connection to Dave through

a mutual friend Reggie Campbell, who's the founder of Radical Mentoring, which is part of Dave's

story and part of the story of the company. I ask him to join us today specifically to talk

about cultural organizational culture for two reasons. First, Coke Consolidated has a pretty

unique purpose statement and if it's okay with you Dave, I'm going to go ahead and share your

purpose statement. It's to honor God and all we do, which is the surprise element for most folks,

to honor God and all we do, to serve others, to pursue excellence and to grow profitably.

And for most organizations to grow profitably is at the beginning of that statement, not at the end.

But even though that's at the end, the other reason we're having this conversation is that you

have been extraordinarily successful in the fourth part of that statement. To put this in context

for everybody, you have approximately 17,000 employees or teammates as you refer to them.

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