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Kelli Valade

Kelli Valade

CEO of Denny's

Mar 31, 2026

19:29
And I just wanted to ask, I know, is there a cost to sometimes that when you feel like you're stepping out of your own lane? Yeah.
19:36
I think that's a great question.
19:37
What I often have said is I didn't color inside the lines.
19:41
I learned as I moved up in, you know, at that time, the Chili's organization, Brinker organization, that I had a lot of leaders, female leaders, restaurant general managers.
19:50
I would do these leadership talks and go all over the country.
19:54
And the questions I would get were about how did you do what you did? did or how did you get there? And I really had such bad answers for so long.
20:03
I had such bad answers.
22:27
And so were there times where you maybe hit a wall and somebody

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