Why 50% Of Family Businesses Fail (And How Stew Leonard’s Survived)


In this episode of Excellence Across Generations, Steve and Moira Forbes sit down with Stew Leonard Jr. and his daughter, Blake Leonard, to uncover the raw, unfiltered reality of managing a multi-generational grocery empire. Thrust into the role of President at just 35, Stew Jr. had to learn how to run the business—and fast. He candidly discusses navigating a highly publicized IRS raid that sent his father to prison, and how an unimaginably tragic personal loss profoundly reshaped his approach to leadership, fatherhood, and business survival.

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