2. Dane Hudson: From Pizza Hut & KFC to McGuigan Simeon Wines and ISS
Welcome to our second episode of Hard Yards in Leadership.
This episode’s guest is Dane Hudson a seasoned international leader who provides coaching, mentoring and advisory services to CEOs, Founders and C-level leaders through his company, Impactful Leadership Consulting.
In his career, Dane has held a range of key executive roles including Senior Vice President and Chief of Finance and Development for Yum Restaurants International (NYSE listed owners of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut), CEO of ASX listed Australian Vintage (one of Australia’s largest wine companies) and Regional CEO of ISS Asia Pacific (one of the world’s largest facility services providers) with responsibility for over 200,000 employees across Asia.
In this episode Dane shares:
- How he first got into a leadership position and learnt
- The mistakes he made when he found out an employee was stealing from the business
- The difficult process of having to fire a friend
- His tricks to hiring people in senior leadership
Key Quotes
“You can't dwell on bad decisions or mistakes that you make in the work force too much. I make 3,4,5 mistakes a day.”
“I’ve got a huge belief in people and 99.9% of the time I trust people…but there are a very small minority that will try to take advantage.”
More About Dane Hudson
If you want the benefit of Dane’s coaching you can check out his business via his website: https://impactfulleadershipconsulting.com/
Or you can follow him on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dane-hudson-61234720/
If you want to find out more about what Wayne does does, check out his business via the website:
http://engage4performance.com/
Or you can follow him on socials
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-reuben-engage4performance/
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