{"podcast":{"title":"Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)","slug":"lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768","podcast_index_feed_id":1064768,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/leadtheteam/","website_url":"HTTPS://benfanning.com/blog","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/10af0b95-04e6-42cc-b03d-73690ea3bb8a/QKJ4Hxs4kaKpd554m1ArvK6B.jpg","author":"Ben Fanning","episode_count":480,"summary":"Real CEOs. Real Stories. Hosted by Ben Fanning—2025 Gold Stevie Award winner for Best Business Podcast and ranked in the Top 2% globally—Lead the Team draws on over 600 CEO interviews to take you inside the minds of leaders from brands like Honeywell, HP, IBM, Dunkin’, and L’Oréal. In each episode, you’ll hear raw, unfiltered stories of leading through rapid growth, high-stakes decisions, and make-or-break moments—plus the CEO-tested tools and strategies they use to build high-performing teams. From turning around billion-dollar brands to sparking innovation at scale, these leaders share lessons you can put into action right now to lead your own team better. Subscribe now. ------------- https://www.benfanning.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfanning/","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T12:21:49.293200+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768"},"episode":{"title":"HP Solutions President Manoj Leelanivas - How to Lead Through Uncertainty","slug":"hp-solutions-president-manoj-leelanivas-how-to-lead-through-uncertainty","published_at":"2026-09-01T14:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/hp-solutions-president-manoj-leelanivas-how-to-lead-through-uncertainty","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768","url":"http://www.benfanning.com/theceosessions/manoj","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c06f3149-53e5-4e4d-a3a1-06ccd84e40bf.mp3","summary":"How do you lead through uncertainty when the path forward isn’t clear? Manoj Leelanivas has done it at extraordinary scale. Today he’s President of HP Solutions . Before HP, he helped lead a major transformation at Juniper Networks, moving into new markets, building belief across thousands of employees, and helping build a new enterprise business approaching $3B in revenue in 5 years ! In this episode, Manoj shares the leadership lessons behind that transformation, including why people don’t resist change...they resist uncertainty , how small wins can create momentum for massive change, and why speed with learning beats waiting for certainty. He also shares the courageous question an employee asked that changed the way he leads, why he had to reinvent himself as he moved from engineer to business leader, and what he’s learning about innovation inside one of the world’s most iconic technology companies. If you’re leading a team through change, making decisions without all the answers, or trying to turn disruption into growth, this conversation is for you. ----- Connect with the Host, #1 bestselling author Ben Fanning Speaking and Training inquires Subscribe to my Youtube channel LinkedIn Instagram Twitter","meta_description":"How do you lead through uncertainty when the path forward isn’t clear? Manoj Leelanivas has done it at extraordinary scale. Today he’s President of HP Sol…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2240,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/episodes/hp-solutions-president-manoj-leelanivas-how-to-lead-through-uncertainty/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/hp-solutions-president-manoj-leelanivas-how-to-lead-through-uncertainty.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}