What Unites Us

Courage in Business: A Conversation with Sam Allen, Salesforce

April 03, 2023 Taylor Justice and Esther Farkas Season 1 Episode 7
What Unites Us
Courage in Business: A Conversation with Sam Allen, Salesforce
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Do you think everyone can be a leader? What qualities do you think good leaders should possess? Courage? Work Ethic? Integrity? These, plus many more, help shape the leaders of today's business world, and in turn, shape the way businesses operate.

Welcome to this episode of the What Unites Us, a podcast about building businesses meant to last. We aim to answer some of the toughest questions about branding, leadership, and success while talking to business trailblazers about their biggest lessons learned.

Today, we're welcoming Sam Allen, a Veteran and Salesforce executive. Sam is sharing with us why courage is extremely important in leaders, why he worked on becoming more empathetic, the unconscious biases that many businesses have, and so much more. 


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Produced by Ginni Media and Unite Us

Original music by Starling Studios

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Sam shares his origin story
How adverse situations helped shape Sam in his post-military professional life
Why Sam thinks courage is a very important trait that leaders should have
Why Sam believes it's important to invest in the people on his teams and how it affects the growth of Salesforce
How unconscious bias hinders companies
The differences between working at a large corporation and starting your own business