Season 2 - Ep. 20 | Lesley Stahl: 30 Minutes with a 60 Minutes TV Legend (Re-release)

We’re stepping out of the boardroom and into the newsroom with our guest, broadcast journalist legend Lesley Stahl. Now in her 30th year on 60 Minutes, Lesley is renowned for her courage, intelligence, and interviewing prowess. She’ll share her two Redefining moments—covering Watergate and surviving Covid—that significantly shaped her career, her life, and her priorities. In this episode, we’ll also talk with Lesley on broadcast news topics that have surprising parallels to business topics: how to prepare for and deal with tough conversations, and how Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts make both news and business organizations infinitely better. We’ll also talk about how technology is changing the way we get our news—not necessarily for the better—and how trust and truth in news are more essential and harder to come by than ever.

If you want to hear more conversations about DEI and purpose, you might enjoy these other Redefiners episodes:

• From Harvard to Hollywood: A Conversation with Debra Martin Chase 
• Power, Politics and Purpose: Leadership Lessons with Former PM of Australia Julia Gillard 
  
• From Gillette to Jamba Juice: How to Lead Iconic Brands with Empathy, Purpose & Integrity with James D. White

Lesley Stahl 
Award-Winning Journalist and 60 Minutes Correspondent 

Lesley Stahl is one of America's most honored and experienced broadcast journalists and offers a historical look at politics from a career that has spanned over fifty years. Her rich career has been marked by political scoops, surprising features and award-winning foreign reporting, a body of work that won her the RTDNA's 2015 Paul White award for lifetime achievement. She has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since March 1991 and began her 30th season in 2020. She is the author of the best-selling book Becoming Grandma.

Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Stahl served as CBS News White House correspondent – the first woman to hold that job – during the Carter and Reagan presidencies and part of the term of George H. W. Bush. Her reports appeared frequently on the CBS Evening News, first with Walter Cronkite, then with Dan Rather, and on other CBS News broadcasts. Stahl continues to cover the top political stories of our day, and interviews the top power players in Washington D.C., including President Donald Trump four times during his time as president, Nancy Pelosi, Betsy DeVos, and more.