Helping leaders grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and bring real meaning to their teams. The Partnership Playbook is for CEOs, founders, and go-to-market leaders who want to grow without noise, scale without burnout, and build partnerships that actually matter. You’ll hear clear thinking on: - How to become a great CEO - How distribution, supply chain, and product partnerships create resilience - How leaders use partnerships to simplify strategy, not add more work Hosted by Phil Hayes-St Clair - CEO coach and partnerships advisor with 20+ years of experience across healthcare, biotech, aerospace, and eCommerce. Each episode blends practical insight with leadership reflection you can actually apply. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, including: - A weekly partnership episode - A weekly leadership episode - A long-form CEO conversation If you’re looking to grow with intent, lead with confidence, and build something your team believes in—you’re in the right place. Start anywhere. Stay for the clarity. Learn more at philhsc.com Know a great future guest? Send them here: philhsc.com/expression-of-interest
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243. How CEOs can hire for a function they can’t personally assess
Aug 19, 202612 min
Get the CEO Leadership Collection: Five curated conversations in a private podcast, each under ten minutes, on the decisions and pressures that define the role. Visit listentophil.com Ever hired a CFO, a CTO, or a general counsel and quietly hoped rapport and a good reference would be enough? This episode makes the case that you can't assess craft you don't have, and shows what to do instead. Phil argues that the fix isn't a better interview technique but a borrowed one: pulling in someone who's actually run the function, one size ahead of where your business is headed, and using them to test judgment rather than knowledge. Why references confirm likeability, not competence, and why that gap gets expensive fast How to define the outcome you need before you write the job spec, so you're hiring against a result instead of a resume Why testing decision-making under real constraints catches what a knowledge-based interview never will Name the two people you'd ask to sit in on your next technical assessment, then call one of them this week. The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts. PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them .
242. Three insights every new executive needs to be successful in the first 90 days
Aug 17, 202612 min
Get the CEO Leadership Collection: Five curated conversations in a private podcast, each under ten minutes, on the decisions and pressures that define the role. Visit listentophil.com Have you actually told your newest executive hire, in concrete terms, what winning looks like at day ninety? Most CEOs leave decision rights, sponsorship, and success measures for a new hire's first quarter loosely implied rather than clearly said. In this episode, Phil unpacks why a hire you're privately doubting is more often a design problem than a judgement error, and how to fix it inside a single week. Why the first six weeks of a new executive's tenure often quietly shape the rest of it The three things that tend to go undefined at the start, and how to close each one in under twenty minutes How to tell whether your doubt about a hire is about them, or about what you never told them Listen now, then sit down before Friday and write two or three concrete measures of what day-ninety success looks like for your newest hire. The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts. PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them .
241. Former Medtronic CEO Art Collins on what it means to lead, listen and deliver sustained excellence.
Aug 14, 202651 min
Get the CEO Leadership Collection: Five curated conversations in a private podcast, each under ten minutes, on the decisions and pressures that define the role. Visit listentophil.com What changes when there is nobody above you to make the final decision? For Art Collins, becoming CEO of Medtronic brought a sudden realisation: tens of thousands of employees, patients and investors were depending on decisions for which the responsibility ultimately stopped with him. His response wasn’t to become more invincible. It was to listen harder, get closer to the front line and surround himself with exceptional people. Those same principles shaped his approach to leadership, partnership and long-term growth. Learn why saying yes is always an implicit decision to say no somewhere else. See how leaders create conditions where bad news reaches them before it becomes a crisis. Use Art’s simple partnership test to find capabilities that can accelerate growth rather than merely add complexity. Listen for lessons earned across the Navy, Medtronic boardroom and global business community and apply them to the decisions already sitting on your desk. Learn More about The Adventures of Archibald & Jockabeb The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts. PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them .
240. How to build redundancy into your revenue engine
Aug 12, 202613 min
Get the CEO Leadership Collection: Five curated conversations in a private podcast, each under ten minutes, on the decisions and pressures that define the role. Visit listentophil.com Which part of your revenue would take the whole quarter down if it stopped on Monday? Most revenue engines look healthier than they are, because growth quietly concentrates the number onto one channel, one segment, or one person without anyone deciding it on purpose. This episode gives you a way to find your single point of failure before the market finds it for you. Why the channel carrying your growth is the one most able to end it, and how concentration accumulates one sensible decision at a time The difference between fragility that's already showing and fragility that's invisible because everything is working A branch you can act on this week, whether your risk is a channel or a person Name your single point of failure out loud to one person on your team, and turn a private worry into a decision the business has to make. The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts. PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them .
239. Does your 90-Day plan survive the experienced CEO test?
Aug 10, 202613 min
Get the CEO Leadership Collection: Five curated conversations in a private podcast, each under ten minutes, on the decisions and pressures that define the role. Visit listentophil.com What if your 90-day plan isn't failing because it's ambitious—but because it was never designed to survive reality? Most quarterly plans don't collapse because the strategy is wrong. They collapse because they're brittle. Discover the three hidden failure modes that quietly derail execution by week two. Learn a practical stress-test you can apply to any strategic plan in under fifteen minutes. Build plans that increase confidence, improve execution, and reduce unnecessary board pressure. Listen now, then stress-test your current 90-day plan before reality does it for you. The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to scale yourself as a leader, choose partners that help you grow faster, and turn trust, alignment, and first wins into momentum that lasts. PS - Have a CEO guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them .
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