David Novak | Former CEO of Yum Brands on Taking Charge of You

David Novak is Co-Founder, retired Chairman, and CEO of Yum! Brands, one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories. After retiring in 2016, he became the Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, a digital leadership development method that teaches leadership skills through an online training platform, podcasts, blogs, and videos, David is also the host of the top-ranked business podcast, How Leaders Lead with David Novak. Under his 17 year leadership, Yum! Brands doubled in size to over 45,000 restaurants and grew from a $4b to a $32 Billion market cap.
David Novak teams up with Jason Goldsmith, globally recognized Sports Performance Coach to some of the world’s best athletes, to bring you a groundbreaking new concept in leadership development: self-coaching. The book, "Take Charge of You HOW SELF COACHING CAN TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AND CAREER."
A renowned expert on leadership and recognition culture, Novak is also a bestselling author. His highly respected and critically acclaimed books include The New York Times bestseller Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen, The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office, and his latest parable, O GREAT ONE! A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition.
Novak has been recognized as “2012 CEO of the Year” by Chief Executive magazine, one of the world’s “30 Best CEOs” by Barron’s, one of the “Top People in Business” by FORTUNE and one of the “100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review. He received the Horatio Alger Award for his commitment to philanthropy and higher education and the 2012 UN World Food Program Leadership Award for Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief.
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