Stephen M. R. Covey: Building Trust, Inspiring Teams, and Leading with Impact

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.6 • 215 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author of The Speed of Trust and Trust & Inspire, Stephen M. R. Covey, joins us to share lessons from growing up with Stephen R. Covey as a father, the early career experiences that taught him to trust himself, and the origins of his groundbreaking work on trust. He explains how trust transforms organizations, backed by research showing employees are 14x more engaged when they trust their leaders, and why leadership today requires not just building trust but also inspiring others. From the painful process of earning credibility to the neuroscience of trust, Stephen reveals why trust is the new currency of our time, how to move beyond command-and-control leadership, and what practical behaviors can help leaders scale influence, inspire their teams, and sustain results. FranklinCovey’s world-class learning solutions—delivered Live-Online, On Demand, or Live In-Person—are designed to build exceptional leadership skills and enrich your culture at every level of your organization. To learn more, email us at info@franklincovey.com, visit franklincovey.com, or call us at: 1-888-868-1776

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Franklin Covey on leadership.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Will Hodling, Franklin Covey's Head of Product.
0:12.0	In these conversations, you'll hear from the world's greatest leaders about the mistakes, methods, and mindsets that help them become the people they are today.
0:20.0	We hope that learning
0:21.6	from their hard-earned insights will accelerate your own leadership journey. Today's guest
0:26.8	is Stephen M.R. Covey. Stephen M.R. Covey is the son of Stephen R. Covey, the author
0:31.7	of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership
0:37.3	Center, which ultimately merged into Franklin Covey. And He is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, which ultimately merged into
0:39.4	Franklin Covey, and he is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of multiple
0:45.1	books, including The Speed of Trust and More Recently, Trust and Inspire. In today's wide-ranging
0:51.3	conversation, you'll learn how Stephen M.R. Covey learned from his experience leading the Covey Leadership Center and how that, it ultimately inspired him to write the speed of trust.
1:02.1	You'll learn about the four cores of credibility and the 13 behaviors that make high trust leaders.
1:08.2	And you'll learn about how trust and inspire is helping to create a new generation
1:12.7	of highly impactful leaders. Stephen Amar Covey, welcome to Franklin Covey on Leadership.
1:18.7	Hey, thanks so much, Will. Great to be with you. Absolutely, really excited to have you here today.
1:23.6	So many people who have followed and listened on leadership over the years know you well.
1:28.3	You're obviously an amazing thought leader and innovator and creator yourself with leading
1:34.3	at the speed of trust and now trust and inspire.
1:36.3	I'd like to start by learning a little bit more about you.
1:39.3	You come from a well-known family.
1:41.3	You know, your name is on the side of the company building.
1:43.3	But I'd love to hear
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