229: Stewardship Leadership: David Peckinpaugh, CEO of Maritz, on Leading a 132-Year-Old Company

Podcast: Events: demystified Podcast · Anca Platon Trifan

Opublikowano: 2026-09-18

David Peckinpaugh is President and CEO of Maritz and the first non-family CEO of a 132-year-old, fifth-generation family-owned company. He explains what it means to lead as a steward, and how the Tugboat Institute's Evergreen seven Ps (purpose, people, passion, perseverance, performance, principles, profit) guide his decisions, with profit treated as fuel for people and innovation. He also covers how Maritz led through COVID with weekly town halls, why his approach to AI is meant to make employees irreplaceable, why in-person events stay human, the difference between personalized and personal, and why time is what attendees really spend. <...