Laid Off? AI Disruption? Why Your Values Are the Only Real Stability with David Cohen 💡

Laid Off? Restructuring? AI Disruption? Why Your Values Are the Only Real Stability with David Cohen What do you do when everything changes? When the company restructures, when AI reshapes the job market, when the role you loved no longer exists? In the past months, many friends called me saying: “I’ve just been laid off.” I’ve lived that moment too, the uncertainty, the fear. And yet… something powerful emerges when the outside world becomes unstable: 👉 Your values become your anchor. 👉 Your CORE becomes your stability. 👉 Your purpose becomes your direction. In this episode, I sit down with David S. Cohen, author, speaker, and expert in leadership and cultural change, to explore how values drive long-term success. We talk about: ✨ Why people are hired for skills, but fired for behavior ✨ How shared values build trust and true collaboration ✨ Why 80–85% of cultural change efforts fail within 18 months ✨ How integrity creates opportunities others never see ✨ Why profit is a byproduct of doing business right 🧭 ✨ How managers can create psychological safety ✨ And how AI is putting values and ethics into the spotlight more than ever When you know what you stand for, you don’t fear change, you navigate it with clarity. If you want inspiration and confidence for your next career step, this conversation is for you. 🎧 Listen. Reflect. Realign. Then tell me: which value guides you the most right now? 👇 Chapters 00:00 🎙️ Intro 01:00 💬 Why work feels unstable today 06:08 🌱 Values as our internal foundation 11:04 🛡️ Psychological safety & leadership 15:50 🤝 Hiring for values and cultural fit 20:43 🧭 Integrity driving decisions 26:11 💼 Values in client relationships 30:30 🔄 Living values daily, not talking about them 35:13 🧩 Aligning values with strategy 37:43 ⚠️ Myths of cultural change 41:22 ✨ Defining success through values 42:31 🔥 Safe courage vs. real courage 51:43 ⭐ Vision that inspires action 58:35 🤖 AI’s impact on ethics 01:04:50 💡 Using AI for deeper conversations 01:07:48 🌍 Values shaping culture 01:09:49 ❓David’s question + reflections 📌 If this episode gives you hope or clarity, share it with someone going through change. You never know whose values need a reminder today. 📲 Connect with us on LinkedIn: David S. Cohen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191 Omar Al Mamlouk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-al-mamlouk 🌍 Follow the CORE Impact Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms, where each week I speak with change-makers about mental well-being, conscious communication, inclusive leadership, and the future of work. Because transformation doesn’t start at the surface. It starts at the CORE.