Paying It Forward - Lessons From The C-Suite: Leadership, Trust, and Standing Out

PAYING IT FORWARD

Successful executives have learned many professional and personal lessons along their life's path. Paying it Forward is about hearing directly from highly successful and informative senior executives who share their first-hand stories, advice, and wisdom to guide listeners who aspire to achieve great things and ascend to even greater heights. Lessons From The C-Suite

Successful executives have learned many professional and personal lessons along their life’s path. Paying it Forward is about hearing directly from highly successful and informative senior executives who share their first-hand stories, advice, and wisdom to guide listeners who aspire to achieve great things and ascend to even greater heights.

This podcast will be about executives discussing what they learned, and sharing the information with you, to help you

“Aspire | Achieve | Ascend”

Listeners will discover information from each podcast guest, that allows the listener to decipher how best to incorporate the information into their own personal persona to make it as far as their career aspirations take them.”

These senior executives, from the C-Suite (or very close to the C-Suite) who will “Pay It Forward” and challenge the listeners with great insight, advice, guidance, wisdom, and practical skills and characteristic traits that can be worked on so listeners can achieve their dreams.

Leadership, Trust, and Standing Out - Jay Spenchian

Jul 8, 2021

In this extended episode, we welcome award winning, digitally-savvy Chief Marketing Officer, Jay Spenchian. Jay has a long and outstanding career transforming deep consumer insights and big data into record-breaking products, sales, innovative marketing initiatives, and growth for Fortune 500 brands such as Pepsico, Heinz, Pillsbury, General Motors, Darden Restaurants, Tempur-Sealy, and US Cellular.

During this conversation, Jay shares with us what he looks for when hiring and/or promoting people, and the biggest challenges he sees when doing so. Jay also touches on leadership, humility, adaptability, flexibility, relationship building, being a team player, taking risks, challenging the status quo, and not being afraid to fail. Jay also discusses the #1 thing people should be focused on overall, the kinds of risks people should be taking and why. He also discusses the 5 key questions he asks himself when he’s being interviewed or promoted and how you should also ask yourself these same questions. Jay touches on why it’s better to be effective and not necessarily “right” and why that matters. Finally, Jay talks about the “consumer journey” and its importance in today’s marketing world.