Former Governor Bill Haslam on Leadership, Faith, and Life After Public Office

Fail It Forward: Lessons for Life, Leadership, and Turning Failure Into Success

Today we are honored to talk to former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. Governor Haslam is the former two-term mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, and former two-term governor of Tennessee, reelected in 2014 with the largest victory margin of any gubernatorial election in Tennessee history. During his tenure, Tennessee became the fastest improving state in the country in K-12 education and the first state to provide free community college or technical school for all of its citizens, in addition to adding 475,000 net new jobs. Haslam serves on the boards of Teach for America and Young Life. In the fall of 2019, Haslam became a visiting professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. He and his wife of thirty-eight years, Crissy, have three children and nine grandchildren. In this episode, we discuss his time in office, lessons on leadership, and his new book Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square.