Lauren Hobart on executive leadership
From Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO: Pick Your Battles!⚔️ · · How Leaders Lead with David Novak
“At our executive team level, we have a lot of dialogue where we start off with different opinions and gently challenge each other, and eventually a lot of different opinions are raised and then in the end we agree.”
On , Lauren Hobart, President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at DICKS SPORTING GOODS INC, spoke about executive leadership during Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO: Pick Your Battles!⚔️ on How Leaders Lead with David Novak.
About Lauren Hobart
During DICK'S Sporting Goods' Q1 2026 earnings call on May 27, 2026, President and CEO Lauren Hobart announced the company was raising the low end of its full-year comparable sales expectations for both its DICK'S and Foot Locker businesses. For DICK'S, Hobart stated the company now expects comparable sales growth of 2.5% to 4%, up from 2% to 4% previously, and at the high end of expectations, approximately 30 basis points of non-GAAP operating margin expansion. For the Foot Locker business, she said the company now expects comparable sales growth of 1.5% to 3%, up from 1% to 3% previously. Hobart also discussed the upcoming summer launch of "Coach DSG," which she described as an AI-powered digital agent designed to provide a personalized conversational experience for customers, extending the expertise of store teammates into product, training, and services decisions.