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  • 50 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies
  • Helping leaders of all walks deliver superior performance with high-impact leadership training & resources
  • Equipping leaders to improve their leadership profile in an authentic way

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Doug Conant

About Doug Conant

Douglas R. Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with 50 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies.  He is the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, a Top 15 Leadership Guru, and was twice-named a Top 100 Most Influential Author in the World. Prior to founding ConantLeadership, he honed his leadership craft at the most senior levels: as President of the Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and finally as Chairman of Avon Products. In 2011, he founded ConantLeadership: a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century.

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Doug Conant codified decades of leadership experience into his 6-step Blueprint process for reflection and model-building that he himself used to transform his own leadership trajectory and deliver top-tier results in the global food industry. Using this same 6-step process, you will embark on a practical exploration of your own values, beliefs, and competencies. Click to get the first chapter free!

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What Top Leadership Voices Are Saying

“Leaders at every level in today’s organizations must now be more courageous, well-equipped, and resilient than ever before. Conant’s process will help you to explore your own unique strengths—fearlessly.”

 Amy C. Edmondson
Amy C. EdmondsonNovartis Professor of Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School

“Doug Conant is a special breed: a hard-edged corporate CEO with an introspective nature who attributes his success to reflection, study, and thoughtful inner work rather than birthright or bombast.”

Susan Cain
Susan CainBestselling Author of Quiet and Bittersweet

“There is no other leader who has more effectively balanced enduring organizational performance with a passionate caring for people . . . take Doug as your teacher.”

Stephen MR Covey
Stephen MR CoveyBestselling author, The Speed of Trust

“Doug Conant has long been one of America’s most effective and enlightened leaders.”

Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. PinkAuthor of 7 bestselling books The Power of Regret, When, and Drive

"Doug Conant has proven himself to be a very disciplined CEO. . . his example shows how effective business leaders can be quiet and bold, studious and decisive, disciplined and creative. Conant has so much to teach, and aspiring leaders at all levels would do well to learn from him."

Jim Collins
Jim CollinsBestselling Author of Good to Great and What to Make of a Life

“Doug Conant hasn’t just been a highly successful leader—he’s an unusually thoughtful one.”

Adam Grant
Adam GrantBestselling author of Originals and Give and Take

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Campbell’s Finds the Soup for their Soul

In the penultimate episode of Teamistry’s third season, host Gabriela Cowperthwaite takes us behind the scenes to witness Campbell’s rebirth. We hear from the former CEO who led this mission, Douglas Conant, who explains how he translated “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” into a step-by-step framework to rebound employee morale and confidence.

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