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LEGO Serious Play at Work: Why Hands-On Building Creates Better Teams Than Traditional Team Building
This week with Jolynn Ledgerwood discover how LEGO Serious Play uses hands-on building to unlock team communication, surface hidden dynamics, and create psychological safety at work.
What Makes Employee Training Actually Stick: A Behavior Change Framework for L&D Leaders
Most L&D programs deliver solid content and change nothing. Learn the three-condition behavior change framework that helps training actually stick, from someone who has tracked 100,000 real commitments.
Leading From Within: Self-Awareness, Collaboration, and Human Connection at Work
What if the missing piece in your leadership isn't a new strategy but a better understanding of yourself? Archana Mohan on self-awareness, collaboration, and leading from within.
Profit Sharing at Work: How to Build a Program That Makes Your Team Think Like Owners
Most business owners spend years trying to solve employee engagement with better culture, better communication, better management. Rob Gallaher tried all of it. Then he tried profit sharing — and his first attempt was a complete disaster.
What Employees Need to Know Before Signing a Severance Agreement
Most employees don't know they can negotiate severance. Here's what employers don't tell you about separation agreements, your rights, and your leverage.
HR Burnout During Layoffs: How to Take Care of Yourself While Supporting Others
Layoffs take a toll on everyone, but what they do to the HR professionals managing them rarely gets acknowledged. Here's how to protect your own wellbeing while still showing up fully for the people who need you most.
How to Conduct a Layoff with Dignity: What HR Leaders Need to Know
Every organization will face a layoff at some point. Outplacement expert Jena Dunay joins the podcast to walk HR leaders through what a thoughtful, dignified process actually looks like and why most companies get it wrong.
Portable Fertility Insurance: Why Group Benefits Leave Most Employees Without Coverage
Dr. Christy Lane and Laura McDonald of Flora Fertility join the podcast to explain why most workplace fertility benefits aren't actually yours and what individually owned fertility insurance changes about that equation for employees and HR teams alike.
How LinkedIn's First CHRO Built a Future-Ready HR Strategy
Steve Cadigan scaled LinkedIn from 400 employees through its IPO as the company's first CHRO, and in this conversation he breaks down why your tenure-based reward structures, performance review processes, and ownership of culture may be overdue for a rethink.
Is Your HR Vocabulary Teaching AI to See Employees as Headcount?
Joshua Berry returns to the podcast to explore how the words HR professionals use every day, often without thinking, are quietly shaping workplace culture and potentially training AI to see people as resources instead of humans.
Mid-Level Manager Training: How Habit Building Closes the Strategy Execution Gap
Your strategy isn't failing because of bad goals. Leadership consultant Stephen Flanagan breaks down exactly why execution stalls at the middle layer and what to do about it.
Why Your Organization Is Sitting on a Gold Mine of Untapped Human Insight
James Warren, founder and CEO of ShareMore Stories, joins the podcast to talk about why the most valuable data your organization has isn't in a survey. It's in the stories your people are carrying around and nobody's asking for.
What Every Manager Gets Wrong About Gen Z at Work
Gen Z isn't disengaged or entitled. They're connection-driven, shaped by instability, and if managing them feels hard, this is where you find out why.
Stop Confusing Perks with Culture: The 20 Behaviors That Actually Build High-Performing Teams
Brett Hoogeveen of Better Culture shares the 20 attitudes and behaviors that separate thriving workplace cultures from ones that just look good on paper.
The Missing Piece in Burnout Prevention for Women
Bianca Best on Why Your Values Are the Real Burnout Fix. Most of us treat burnout like a physical problem. Discover why your values (not your vitamins) are the missing piece in burnout prevention.
The Power of Productive Cynicism in Leadership and Team Culture
Cynicism gets a bad reputation, but Hywel Berry knows it's actually your secret weapon. Learn when doubt becomes your superpower and how to voice skepticism so people actually listen.
5 People In Your Network Who Can Land You Your Next Job (And How to Reach Out)
Karen Worthy shows you how to stop scrolling through LinkedIn and start reaching out to people who actually believe in you. Your next opportunity is probably already in your existing network.
Career Growth Starts With You: How to Own Your Development Without Your Manager
This Greatest Hits episode reveals why your manager won't develop you and what you should do instead. Learn how to own your career growth and stop waiting for permission.
Your Insurance Company's Dirty Little Secret (And What to Do About It)
Chris Hamilton from Hotchkiss Insurance reveals how insurance companies are structurally designed to make money off higher premiums—and the concrete steps you can take right now to fix it.
NLRB 2026: HR Compliance Changes, AI Hiring Laws & Multi-State Employee Rights
This week on Policy Pulse breaks down the court ruling that gives the president unprecedented control over labor law, what it means for enforcement, and the three critical bets every HR leader needs to prepare for in 2026.
This week with Jolynn Ledgerwood discover how LEGO Serious Play uses hands-on building to unlock team communication, surface hidden dynamics, and create psychological safety at work.