Pivot points powered by Brandpie
Welcome to Pivot points powered by Brandpie. The podcast that delves deep into the expertise of visionary leaders who’ve successfully taken their business, through a complex pivotal moment to unlock growth.
Each episode we'll share with you how CEOs handle these critical inflection points, from leadership changes, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to jumping an ‘S’ Curve or making a category pivot to drive future success.
Pivot Points is for C-Suite executives and anyone aspiring to leadership who want to learn how the emotional levers of change – purpose, brand and culture – are critical to successfully navigating a pivotal moment.
Successfully working through a pivotal moment for your business requires great leadership, coupled with clarity of purpose, ambition and strategy. Pivot points will aim to go deep on these topics to help you understand how great leaders excite people to drive change to create and build long term value – for their company, their people, their shareholders and for society.
Pivot points powered by Brandpie
Leading When Failure is Not an Option with CEO of Dynavox Group, Fredrik Ruben - Episode 36
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
What’s at stake if you fail in business?
For some, it's a reputational risk. For others, it's a financial risk. But if Fredrik Ruben’s company fails, millions of disadvantaged families will no longer be able to communicate with their loved ones.
Failure is not an option for Fredrik and Dynavox - commerciality is key, and such an ultimatum might make some leaders try to be heroes. Fredrik is quite the opposite.
Join us as we discover why being the ‘tour guide’ removes a single point of failure, why a CEO’s self-care isn’t selfish, and how Fredrik has solved how to be in two places at once…
You will learn:
- How mission-driven leadership works when stakes are high
- Why “tour guide” leadership beats the hero CEO model
- How to build a team that doesn’t depend on you for every decision
- How to balance commercial discipline with deep purpose in a publicly listed company
- Why self-care, health, and life outside work are non-negotiable foundations for sustainable leadership
🔑 Key Themes
- Mission-Driven Leadership at Scale
- The Tour Guide CEO vs Hero Leadership
- Balancing Purpose and Commercial Reality
- Building a Decision-Making Culture
- Self-Care, Identity, and Sustainable Leadership
🔗 Connect with us
Fredrik Ruben
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrikruben/
Dynavox Group
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dynavox-group/
Connect with Dave Allen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveallenbrandpie/
Learn more about Brandpie: https://www.brandpie.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/brandpie/
