Brands Don’t Fail - Leaders Do: The Missing Link is Love at Work w/ Mark A. Mears

About this episode

Mark A. Mears discusses the importance of love in the workplace and the shift towards human-centered leadership.

Love at Work: Aligning Leadership, Purposeful Growth, and the Brand from the Inside Out In this BrandsTalk episode, I got to interview Mark A. Mears—bestselling author, keynote speaker, and former C-level executive who led growth at brands including PepsiCo, McDonald’s, NBC Universal, and The Cheesecake Factory—about his shift from traditional growth to purposeful, human-centered leadership and his second bestseller focused on bringing love back into the workplace. Mark explains his LOV...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Brigitte Bojkowszky

Guest: Mark A. Mears

Topics covered

• leadership
• purposeful growth
• human-centered leadership
• workplace culture
• brand alignment

Keywords

• love at work
• leadership
• growth
• workplace
• human-centered
• branding
• purpose

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PepsiCo, McDonald’s, NBC Universal, The Cheesecake Factory

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