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The Franchise Leader Spotlight Podcast puts you inside the conversations franchise brand presidents, CMOs, development officers and operators are actually having - about growth, franchisee adoption, marketing strategy, and what it really takes to build a system that scales. Host Katherine LeBlanc, Fractional CMO and founder of MyPodcastHost, sits down with the executives shaping modern franchising to ask the questions most people dance around. No fluff. No keynote speak. Just real experience from the people running real brands. If you lead a franchise brand or you're building toward one - this is the show for you. Subscribe and join the conversation.
Unknown Host hosts Franchise Leader Spotlight, a business show with 14 episodes published.
Kim Gubera, President & CEO of PIRTEK, stepped into her role in 2019 and did something almost no leader does — she visited every single franchisee before changing anything. In this conversation, she shares how that decis
Show notesSteven and Jason Parker have been in the pet care industry since 1999 and franchising K9 Resorts since 2011. In this conversation, they walk Katherine through the disciplined, long-view philosophy that's gotten them to 5
Show notesJosh Lyon has been building ScentHound as their COO from seven units to 157 - and he's not slowing down. In this conversation, he gets into what it actually takes to scale a franchise brand with operational discipline in
Show notesDoug Flaig, CEO of Stratus Clean, is in the middle of one of the harder things a franchise leader can navigate - a full brand transformation - and he's doing it with a three-tier franchisee network watching every move. I
Show notesAlex and Myriam Guerrero didn't plan on becoming franchise owners — Alex stumbled into it at a USO transition event when a franchise broker showed up and offered a presentation. Four years later, they're running a Tint W
Show notesAlex Pericchi has spent 12 years as VP of Marketing at PuroClean watching what actually drives franchisee adoption — and what quietly kills it. His answer this year is radical simplification: fewer activities, clearer di
Show notesJon Sica, President of Batteries Plus, joins Katherine LeBlanc at IFA 2026 for one of the most practical episodes of Franchise Leader Spotlight yet. Jon breaks down why the brand standards conversation lands completely d
Show notesKathy George, President of Spherion Staffing and Recruiting, joins Katherine LeBlanc at IFA to talk about the leadership framework that helped an 80-year-old staffing franchise outpace its competitors and its parent comp
Show notesJennifer Durham has scaled franchise brands across restaurants, hospitality, and wellness - from Checkers & Rally's to Cooper's Hawk, Hand & Stone, and now Potbelly, where she's leading the brand's push from 467 shops to
Show notesKevin King didn't become President and CEO of Donatos Pizza by staying in his lane. In this conversation, Katherine LeBlanc sits down with Kevin at IFA to talk about what it actually takes to build a franchise brand that
Show notesLeads are up at Go Mini's. Revenue didn't keep pace. Chris Walls, President & CEO, knows exactly why - and he's not blaming the marketing. In this episode of the Franchise Leader Spotlight, Chris sits down with host Kath
Show notesWhat does it look like to grow a franchise brand without compromising your values? In this episode of Franchise Leader Spotlight, Katherine LeBlanc sits down with Paul Pickett of Wild Birds Unlimited to explore how susta
Show notesIn this episode of Franchise Leader Spotlight, Katherine LeBlanc sits down with Quinn Newhall, Chief Operating Officer of Clean Eatz, to discuss what it means to lead with a franchisee-first mindset. As a former operator
Show notesWhat does it really take to become a successful multi-unit, multi-brand operator? In this episode of Franchise Leadership Spotlight, Mitch Cohen shares his journey from entering franchising to building the infrastructure
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Franchise Leader Spotlight is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under Business (entrepreneurship) and has published 14 episodes.
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