When Leaders Decide to Listen: Amy Gurske on Feedback, Belonging, and Better Workplaces

In this episode of SHE DECIDES, host Staci Swiderski sits down with Amy Gurske, founder of SayHii, a real-time employee feedback and insight platform designed to help leaders truly understand what’s happening inside their organizations. Amy shares why listening can no longer be an annual exercise or a surface-level survey. Through SayHii, she’s helping leaders access actionable, day-to-day insights into employee experience and organizational health, giving them the opportunity to address disengagement, burnout, workload imbalance, lack of clarity, and belonging before they turn into larger systemic issues. Together, Staci and Amy explore what it means to lead with awareness, how culture can quietly erode when feedback is ignored, and why creating space for honest input builds stronger, healthier teams. Amy also opens up about the responsibility leaders carry, the courage it takes to really listen, and how data, when used with intention, can humanize the workplace rather than distance it. This episode is a powerful reminder that the strongest organizations aren’t built on assumptions, they’re built on trust, transparency, and listening in real time. Because when she decides to listen, everything changes. Connect with Amy Gurske & SayHiiWebsite: https://www.sayhii.io/visionandvalues LinkedIn (Amy Gurske): https://www.linkedin.com/in/amygurske/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sayhiieveryday/?hl=en