Kathy 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 company in a year the industry was forecasted to contract.
Kathy walks through the 20 Mile March - the collective two-year goal structure she set the night before getting on stage at national convention - and the weekly, monthly, and quarterly communication stack that turned a shared goal into franchisee-to-franchisee accountability. She also gets candid about radical transparency as a real operating principle, the succession challenge building inside multi-generational franchise systems, and why she's had to say no to protect the brand she stewards.
If you lead a franchise brand and the gap between what HQ knows and what franchisees feel is wider than you'd like - this one is for you.
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What is Franchise Leader Spotlight?
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.