Blair Kellison's guest appearances

Blair Kellison

Growing with Purpose

Finding Your Summit

Lead With We

Scott Huesing

Leon Logothetis

Alison Levine

Kara Goldin

Mark Allen

Jack Barsky

Mark Pattison

Jonathan Keyser

Colin Quinn

Tim Kennedy

Jason Redman

Oprah Winfrey

Mariel Hemingway

Mark Goulston

Tom Arnold

OwlTail

This week it was a pleasure to welcome Blair Kellison to the podcast, the President of herbal medicine company Traditional Medicinals. Blair offers insights on how his company has thrived since 1974 through long term decision-making, a holistic understanding of sustainability, and a carefully crafted company culture. He also shares his belief that the highest purpose of business is to address climate change and income inequality.Blair Kellison Blair Kellison is the CEO of Traditional Medicinals (TM), a mission driven, organic and fair trade wellness tea company based in Sonoma County, CA. Blair is a former CPA with Ernst &amp; Young, a brand manager with Nestle, and he received his MBA from Booth at The University of Chicago. In 1995, Blair made the best decision of his career by taking a 70% pay cut and trading in his brand manager position at Nestle for one at a mission-driven, vegetarian food company. Over the past 25 years Blair has been the first non-founder CEO of four organizations, each time taking over from the founder and building an executive team to manage the company. His passion is leadership which he believes requires four P’s – Persistence, Patience, Passion and Purpose. He teaches leaders to patiently persist with purpose and passion as the driving force for their success.This episode of LEAD WITH WE was produced and edited by Goal17Media.com and is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.ResourcesTraditional Medicinals WebsiteBlair Kellison’s LinkedInWe First Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week it was a pleasure to welcome Blair Kellison to the podcast, the President of herbal medicine company Traditional Medicinals. Blair offers insights on how his company has thrived since 1974 through long term decision-making, a holistic understanding of sustainability, and a carefully crafted company culture. He also shares his belief that the highest purpose of business is to address climate change and income inequality. Blair Kellison Blair Kellison is the CEO of Traditional Medicinals (TM), a mission driven, organic and fair trade wellness tea company based in Sonoma County, CA. Blair is a former CPA with Ernst &amp; Young, a brand manager with Nestle, and he received his MBA from Booth at The University of Chicago. In 1995, Blair made the best decision of his career by taking a 70% pay cut and trading in his brand manager position at Nestle for one at a mission-driven, vegetarian food company. Over the past 25 years Blair has been the first non-founder CEO of four organizations, each time taking over from the founder and building an executive team to manage the company. His passion is leadership which he believes requires four P’s – Persistence, Patience, Passion and Purpose. He teaches leaders to patiently persist with purpose and passion as the driving force for their success. This episode of LEAD WITH WE was produced and edited by <a href="Goal17Media.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goal17Media.com</a> and is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify. Resources<a href="https://www.traditionalmedicinals.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Traditional Medicinals Website</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/blair-kellison-7078b8/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blair Kellison’s LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.wefirstbranding.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We First Website</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

CEO Blair Kellison Discusses How Traditional Medicinals Competes On Purpose 

On this episode of the Growing with Purpose podcast, host Paul Spiegelman talks with Blair Kellison, CEO of Traditional Medicinals, a mission-driven, organic and fair trade wellness tea company based in Sonoma County, California. Blair Kellison made the best decision in 1995 by taking a 70 percent pay cut to leave the corporate world and take a job at a mission-driven, vegetarian tea company. As a four-time non-founder CEO, Blair has a reputation for being able to go into companies and transition them from a traditional, command-and-control style of leadership to a collaborative, values-driven team approach. At Traditional Medicinals, Blair has helped grow the company from 60 employees to 200, and they recently surpassed $100 million in revenue. More importantly, Blair has finally found his passion: both working in the mission-driven, health food space and in helping others find their own passions. A deeply purpose-driven person, Blair is committed to making every person at Traditional Medicinals feel cared for and seen as an individual, and he's teaching founders and other leaders how to do the same. In this episode, hear Paul and Blair discuss the key differences between founders and CEOs, and how leadership is an ongoing commitment to doing better than the day before. Plus, hear Blair's inspiring advice for those still looking for their passion, and his personal promise to help you find it. 

On this episode of the Growing with Purpose podcast, host Paul Spiegelman talks with Blair Kellison, CEO of <a href="https://www.traditionalmedicinals.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Traditional Medicinals</a>, a mission-driven, organic and fair trade wellness tea company based in Sonoma County, California. Blair Kellison made the best decision in 1995 by taking a 70 percent pay cut to leave the corporate world and take a job at a mission-driven, vegetarian tea company. As a four-time non-founder CEO, Blair has a reputation for being able to go into companies and transition them from a traditional, command-and-control style of leadership to a collaborative, values-driven team approach. At Traditional Medicinals, Blair has helped grow the company from 60 employees to 200, and they recently surpassed $100 million in revenue. More importantly, Blair has finally found his passion: both working in the mission-driven, health food space and in helping others find their own passions. A deeply purpose-driven person, Blair is committed to making every person at Traditional Medicinals feel cared for and seen as an individual, and he's teaching founders and other leaders how to do the same. In this episode, hear Paul and Blair discuss the key differences between founders and CEOs, and how leadership is an ongoing commitment to doing better than the day before. Plus, hear Blair's inspiring advice for those still looking for their passion, and his personal promise to help you find it.

Blair Kellison: Be Inspired to Be Like You

Blair Kellison, the CEO of Traditional Medicinals on living life with purpose after facing a career crisis. In 1995, Kellison, a former CPA with Ernst &amp; Young and Brand Manager at Nestle, walked into 19th Street Natural Foods Co-Op in Los Angeles and his life was forever changed. He realized that just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean that you like it, so he took a 70% pay cut and went to work for a vegetarian food company that he believed in.

Blair Kellison: Paying it forward with the CEO of Traditional Medicinals 