How Scott Pulsipher Found His Fit as CEO of a 200,000-Student University

Podcast: Fit Happens: Why CEOs and Leaders Succeed or Fail · Jason Baumgarten

Opublikowano: 2026-04-30

What does it really take to find the role you were built for — and lead it at scale? In this episode of Fit Happens, I sit down with Scott Pulsipher, CEO of Western Governors University, to explore how a former Amazon leader found the most meaningful fit of his career — and what it cost him to get there. Scott opens up about a brutal leadership feedback experience at Amazon that nearly broke his confidence, how that humbling moment became the foundation for his growth as a leader, and why attending a single WGU commencement convinced him this was...