Patrick Leddin

Author of the WSJ bestseller, The 5 Week Leadership Challenge, speaker, podcast host, entrepreneur, and professor

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Gender: Male

Languages: English

Travels from: United States

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Biography Highlights

Patrick benefits from hands-on leadership and management experience coupled with academic rigor and expertise. He served as a U.S. Army master parachutist, infantry, ranger-qualified officer, managed projects at KPMG Consulting, and, along with Jamie, started and ran Wedgewood Consulting Group, an Inc. 5000 company. His book, The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, is a Wall Street Journal bestseller. In addition to his work at Leddin Group, Patrick is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University where he teaches Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Leadership.

Biography

Meet Patrick Leddin

For more than three decades, Patrick Leddin, PhD has been leading teams and studying leadership. His hands-on leadership experience has stretched from leading soldiers as a U.S. Army master parachutist, infantry, ranger-qualified officer to working with senior corporate leaders at KPMG Consulting, FranklinCovey, and his own companies.

A Snapshot of Patrick Leddin

A Wall Street Journal best-selling author and Amazon #1 new release in Workplace Culture author of The 5-Week Leadership Challenge.
Successful entrepreneur that has co-founded two businesses with his wife, including the Leddin Group, LLC and The Wedgewood Group, Inc. (an Inc. 5000 company which was sold in 2012).
Associate professor and Director of the Practice of Business Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Leadership.
Founder and host of the weekly podcast Leadership Lab, with a 1 % Global Rank; and has more than 100,000 followers on LinkedIn.
Served in the U.S. Army as an airborne infantry ranger-qualified platoon leader and company commander.
Has a more than 19-year relationship with the FranklinCovey organization that has included the positions Director of Strategic Partnerships and Senior Delivery Consultant.
Lives in Nashville with his business partner and wife of 30 plus years. They have two adult children. He is an avid outdoorsman and mountain climber, including Mount Kilimanjaro.
Received his PhD in Strategic Communication from the University of Kentucky.

AUTHOR

Patrick is the author of the Wall Street Journal Best-seller The 5-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be as well as A Winning Culture in Government, Oliver’s Spot: The 5 Ps Leading Teams to Top Results and Oliver’s Spot for the Public Sector.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, CONSULTANT, AND COACH

His speaking engagements and consulting work have allowed him to partner with clients and present to countless audiences in the United States, Canada, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Great Britain, Aruba, Iceland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Guam, and many other countries around the world. Past clients include Vector, General Electric, Samsung, U.S. Secret Service, Penn State Leadership Academy, Trilogy Health Services, Ecolab, Long John Silver, and Boston Consulting Group.

ENTREPRENEUR

In 2001, Patrick and his wife Jamie co-founded Wedgewood Consulting Group, Inc., an Inc. 5000 company. Over 11 years, Wedgewood Group assembled an amazing team, opened offices in multiple cities, achieved double-digit annual revenue growth each year, and served an impressive list of clients before being acquired in 2012. In 2018, Patrick and Jamie launched the Leddin Group, LLC to help leaders and teams achieve their full potential and accomplish their top priorities.

PODCAST HOST AND LINKEDIN INFLUENCER

Patrick is the founder and host of the weekly Leadership Lab Podcast with a 1% Global Rank. He has had the privilege to interview and talk leadership with more than 120 guests to date, including Stephan M.R. Covey, Patrick Lencioni, Marshall Goldsmith, and more. Patrick has more than 100,000 followers on LinkedIn due to his great content and teachings.

PROFESSOR

In addition to his work at Leddin Group, Patrick serves as Associate Professor and Director of the Practice of Business Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Corporate Strategy, Negotiation, Advanced Marketing, and Crisis Leadership. He brings his years of practical experience to the classroom, allowing his students to meld theory with real-world implementation.

EDUCATION

Patrick received his PhD in Strategic Communication from the University of Kentucky.

PERSONAL LIFE

Lives in Nashville with his wife of 30 plus years/ business partner, has two adult children, and a son-in-law. He is an avid outdoorsman and mountain climber; and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

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5 Practices of an Impactful Leader

Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be!

Patrick Leddin, PhD is a powerful storyteller who takes his audiences on a journey that explores what it truly means to lead themselves and others effectively. Current and aspiring leaders will be drawn into the presentation as they reflect on their motivations, desires, and commitments. They will leave the presentation inspired to write their own leadership story and to achieve new levels of performance.

Participants will:

Gain clarity and knowledge to better lead themselves and others.
Be inspired to own their leadership story by taking full responsibility for their mindset, behaviors, and results.
Understand and appreciate the leadership journey that they are on and how to put their daily challenges into a long-term perspective.

Ideal Audience: This message applies across all industries and to everyone who is responsible for leading themselves and others. This includes aspiring leaders, high potentials, and existing leaders.

Format: 45-to-60-minute keynote. Follow-up options include a two-day workshop titled The Two-Day Leadership Challenge: Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be and an online course titled The 5-Week Leadership Challenge.

Available: Virtually

Step Up and Disrupt

Trust Your Gut, Take a Risk, and Change the World

In his keynote, Dr. Patrick Leddin will challenge you to think and act in new ways. He will share real life examples of disruptive leaders who trust their gut, blaze a new path, walk to the beat of their own drum, and bring out the best in others. These are people who have found what they love to do in their work and life, and choose every day to make a difference.

After attending this keynote, leaders will:

Assess gaps in their mindset, actions, and results through the lens of disruption.
See opportunities for disruption in their world, within their team, and with their customers for greater success.
Commit to carving out their own disruptive path and be better prepared to help others to do the same.
Use a new disruptive framework and 16 disruptive behaviors to inspire, encourage, drive positive innovation in their organization

Format: 45-to-60-minute keynote; workshops

Available: Virtually

Books

The 5-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be

Develop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have. A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties. Don’t wait for training that doesn’t come until it’s too late. The 5-Week Leadership Challenge is an invaluable guide to help any aspiring leader begin a daily practice of exercises and challenges designed to develop and expand your innate leadership ability as quickly as possible. Patrick Leddin has served as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, founded and ran successful businesses, and trained thousands of leaders. In The 5 Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you’re the only person for the job. The 5-Week Leadership Challenge: Includes 35 daily challenges designed to quickly develop standout leadership skills. Outlines the leadership habits you can practice regularly that get you noticed—and promoted, based on Leddin’s experience training and consulting thousands of leaders all over the world. Encourages you to share your completion of the leadership challenge on social media to exponentially expand your networking opportunities and receive bonus content and access to additional author tools.

Oliver’s Spot: The 5 Ps Leading Teams to Top Results

Learn the professional lessons of a lifetime Susan Walker was beyond frustration. After fifteen years at Outdoor Essentials, and the last four as the Human Resources manager, she found herself struggling to deal with her company’s recent acquisition by a much larger organization, new leadership, increased accountability, and diminishing resources. At her wits end, she ventured into a local bookstore. There, she met Oliver Stanton and learned the professional lesson of a lifetime. Readers will enjoy the fast-paced story and practical tools they can use today to improve performance and foster a culture of trust, commitment, accountability, and results!