Conversations Every Ambitious Leader Should Hear

Business Leadership Podcast Episodes That Will Rewire Your Thinking

Great leadership is built through hard decisions, failure, and the people around you. In these episodes of On Deck with Chris Herman, business owners and leaders talk candidly about what it actually takes to lead a team, build a culture, and grow a company without losing what made it special in the first place.
Ideas from leaders who’ve built, grown, and led through it.
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Learn From Leaders Who've Been There

Leadership advice is everywhere, in the form of books, lectures, coaching, and so on. But there's something different in hearing directly from real leaders who have actually made the hard decisions, built the teams, and taken the risks.

Our business leadership podcast gets you closer to the thinking behind actual business decisions. You’ll learn how to rebuild broken company culture, manage remote friction, and sharpen your decision making under pressure. If you're tired of podcasts that sound like HR handbooks, our podcasts about business leadership offer a refreshing change.

What You’ll Learn From Our Business Leadership Podcast Episodes

• How to build a company culture that survives growth
• What separates results-driven leadership from just being busy
• How leaders make hard calls under pressure
• Why brand and culture have to be lived

Fresh perspectives and practical lessons you can apply right the next day.

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Insights That Actually Keep Leaders Up At Night

In our business leadership podcast episodes, we talk about the challenges leaders face on a day-to-day basis and the thinking that helps them move forward.

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Leadership And Management

What does good team leadership look like in the real world? Get practical advice on how to lead people, how to make tough decisions, and how to build trust.

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Business
Growth

Growing a business is not as simple as finding a good idea. Learn the risks, pivots, marketing strategies, and lessons for building something that lasts.

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Company
Culture

Strong teams make strong businesses. Learn how experienced leaders recruit, inspire, communicate, and develop cultures that people want to be part of.

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Strategy And Decision-Making

When the stakes are high, there’s rarely an easy answer. See how leaders cope with uncertainty, seize opportunities, and their process of decision-making under pressure.

Find the Business Leadership Podcast Episodes That Fit You

Not every Chris Herman podcast episode fits your seat at the table. We've got conversations for all. Choose your lane, hit play, and get what you really need.

Business Leaders
  • Real talk about scalable executive leadership
  • How great company culture gets built (and broken)
  • Leading teams through change without losing people
Entrepreneurs
  • Stay on track as a team leader.
  • Reduce stress and speed up decision making
  • Create a company culture that scales with you
Why Listen to On Deck With Chris Herman?
You need real conversations with people who've survived the fire. This business leadership podcast hands you battle-tested tactics you can actually use.
  • Leaders in the trenches share stories
  • Hear the thinking behind tough decisions
  • Get real insight from experienced leaders
  • Grasp practical ideas that could be applied to your business the next day
“You recognize that you can't be the founder forever, right? If you're going to operate that way, you have to start to get out of your own way.”
Chris Herman

Chris Herman

Host of On Deck with Chris Herman

Authentic Business Leadership Podcast Episodes Worth Pressing Play On

Check out our business leadership podcast episodes filled with candid stories, smart ideas, hard-earned lessons, and fresh perspectives from people who’ve built, led, and grown businesses.

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Chris Herman interviews Mark Salcido about his career in the automotive retail industry, the importance of developing business relationships, Google VLA’s, and life in California.

Episode 107:

Keith Monnin explains how to build profitable dealerships through people-focused leadership.

Episode 104:

Meet John Saunders who went from Banking to creating a successful agency.

Episode 103:

Chris Herman talks with Todd Katcher about how digital signage is changing dealership culture.

Meet the Host Behind The Conversations

Chris Herman has spent more than three decades leading teams, building strong cultures, and making the tough calls that come with real responsibility.

He knows that leadership is all about making decisions when the path ahead is doubtful, learning from what goes wrong, and bringing people with you along the way.

Now, Chris sits down with the business owners and leaders who are doing exactly that. But this time, the conversation is no longer about success, growth, recycled tips, or fancy leadership advice.

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Authentic Experience

Chris has over 30 years of experience guiding teams through layoffs, rapid growth, and everything in between. He brings those hard-won lessons in business to every conversation.

Straight-talking Style

Keeps conversations honest, relaxed, and easy to follow. And every episode ends with something you can use.

Leadership Community

Thousands of listeners trust Chris to deliver executive leadership insights that actually move the needle.

Relevant Questions

Chris is not afraid to challenge, dig deep, and get guests to open up about what they usually keep to themselves.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Good leaders make clear decisions but also know how to build a brand culture and protect it, even under pressure or during fast growth.
Culture is not writing down your values but living them consistently, especially when it’s inconvenient to live them.
The best leaders have laid out clear priorities up front, so when the moment of truth arrives, it’s about execution, not first-time decision-making.
Most successful leaders talk about it as something learned through repeated hard decisions and feedback, as opposed to something innate.
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Know a business leader, entrepreneur, or expert with a story to share? We’re always looking for new voices and authentic experiences to inspire better conversations.