Value-Powered Leadership

Managing your team by generation is quietly driving out your best people. David Cohen explains what actually shapes performance — and it isn't birth year. Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with David Cohen, founder of DS Cohen & Associates and author of Selecting the Best, to break down why generational labels are lazy leadership — and what to read instead.You'll learn: 📣 Why generational labels backfire on leaders🧠 Traits vs behaviors — what predicts performance🔄 Why life stage beats birth year🚪 How stereotypes push out top talent🤝 Why trust and respect aren't the same ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If your team is burnt out, quietly quitting, or emotionally checked out — your engagement score won't tell you why. That's the blind spot this episode is here to fix.Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with organizational consultant and author David Cohen to unpack the difference between employee experience and employee engagement — and why confusing the two is silently damaging your culture, your retention, and your bottom line. You'll learn:🔍 Why high engagement scores can mask a deeply broken experience📋 How surveys are gamed — and what the data is really telling you🧠 The experience pyramid that drives real loyalty and performance🤝 Why leadership owns this problem — not HR🤖 How AI is quietly isolating your workforce✅ 5 pillars of employee experience you can start using today 📍 Catch David live at SHRM 2026 — Pre-Conference Workshop, Orlando Tuesday, June 16 · 8:00 AM–12:00 PM EDT Register: ⁠https://registration.events.shrm.org/flow/shrm/shrm26/public-catalog/page/catalog/session/1768332959523001Vxhq⁠━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

AI is changing the hiring process fast—but it may also be helping the wrong candidates look perfect on paper.In this episode, host Lisa Urbanski talks with hiring expert David Cohen about why companies must look beyond resumes to hire people who are aligned with company culture.You’ll learn: 🧠 Why “can do” does not always mean “will do”⚠️ How AI-generated resumes can mislead hiring teams💬 What interview questions reveal real behavior🤝 Why emotional intelligence matters more than ever✅ How leaders can avoid costly hiring mistakes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Many organizations rely on interview questions that sound good but don’t actually predict job performance.In this episode, Lisa Urbanski talks with hiring expert and author David Cohen about how behavioral interviewing helps companies make clearer hiring decisions and build stronger teams.You’ll learn:🧠 Why traditional interview questions fail🚀 How behavioral interviewing works📊 How to evaluate skills and behaviors together⚡ Ways to reduce bias in hiring decisions💡 A structured approach to interviewing candidatesThese insights will help you improve hiring decisions and build better teams.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Performance reviews are supposed to improve performance—but for most teams, they create anxiety, defensiveness, and confusion.In this episode, host Lisa Urbanski talks with leadership expert David Cohen about modernizing performance reviews.In this conversation, you’ll learn: • Why reviews feel like an ambush (and how surprise kills trust)• How to switch from feedback to feedforward coaching• A simple 10-minute check-in structure every 90 days• How to set clearer goals (ranges, not moving targets)• Why tying reviews to compensation can backfire• Why 360 feedback should be used for development—not evaluation━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If your team is working hard but still feels confused, disengaged, or burned out, the issue might be role clarity... not effort. Host Lisa Urbanski talks with David Cohen about how unclear roles create role conflict, role ambiguity, blame, delays, and quiet resentmentYou’ll learn:✨ Why job titles and descriptions don’t create real clarity✨ The difference between role ambiguity vs. role conflict✨ How unclear roles quietly cause burnout, blame, and disengagement✨ The 4-question role clarity exercise that aligns teams fast✨ How to create clarity without micromanaging✨ What to do when employees feel unsafe speaking up✨ How clear roles improve trust, motivation, and performance━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Burnout isn’t the root problem... It’s a signal. In this episode, host Lisa Urbanski sits down with leadership strategist David Cohen to break down the real driver behind employee engagement and burnout: the employee experience.You’ll learn: 🧠 Why burnout is a symptom—not the cause🧩 How role clarity reduces stress and confusion🤝 Why manager relationships matter more than benefits🌱 How growth, development, and recognition boost retention🗣️ Communication shifts that improve employee experience fast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If you’re “managing” but it’s not inspiring trust, this episode will help you shift into real leadership—starting now. Lisa Urbanski sits down with David Cohen to break down leadership vs. management, how integrity and empathy actually work in high-stakes decisions, and why culture and values matter more than motivational posters.You’ll learn 👇🧠 The real difference between managing and leading🧭 What integrity looks like in everyday leadership decisions🤝 How to use empathy without lowering standards🌍 How culture changes communication and “respect”🗣️ How to explain hard decisions in a way people trust🔁 How future-focused feedback builds better teams━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

What makes company values real—and why do some organizations thrive while others quietly lose trust, talent, and integrity?Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with David Cohen to break down what authentic company values look like in action, why values must apply to everyone (not just frontline staff), and how “values-based hiring” can dramatically improve retention and workplace culture.In this conversation, David shares powerful examples—such as Starbucks and Johnson & Johnson—showing how living values can strengthen culture, enhance customer experience, and drive long-term business success.In this episode, you’ll learn: ✅ How to tell if values are real vs. performative✅ The behaviors that reveal culture fast✅ How to hire for values (without hiring “robots”)✅ How integrity connects to every value you claim━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with global leadership consultant David Cohen to unpack how 360° feedback can move you from self-doubt and defensiveness into clarity, confidence, and real growth as a leader. If feedback has ever left you feeling confused, exposed, or like an imposter, this episode will show you how to read it differently—and use it to lead better starting now. You’ll learn how to:See 360° feedback as useful data instead of a personal attackUnderstand why your self-view and others’ view often don’t match—and why that’s normalGive honest feedback without shaming, blaming, or burning bridgesUse “feedforward” and future-focused language to drive real behavior changeAlign feedback with values, culture, and the top behaviors that actually matter in your roleRespond to tough comments with courage and curiosity instead of ego and avoidanceThis conversation will help you feel less threatened by feedback and more equipped to turn it into a practical tool for your own leadership transformation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If you’re sick of ghosting, rejections, and black-hole applications, this conversation is your unfair advantage in the job hunt.Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with hiring and leadership expert David Cohen to rip apart outdated resume rules and show you what actually gets you hired today.You’ll learn:Why 50–65% of resumes are fiction—and how to win by telling the truthHow to sell your behaviors, not just your skills, in 30–60 seconds of resume scan timeSimple shifts to make your resume, social media, and interviews all tell the same powerful storyHow to use networking, follow-up, and handwritten thank-yous to separate yourself from the packWhy values, culture, and compatibility beat “perfect” credentials every time━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

If you hire for skills and fire for behavior, this episode shows you how to flip that script...FAST!In this power-packed conversation, host Stacey Chillemi sits down with ethics and culture consultant David Cohen to uncover how companies can actually live their values, not just frame them on the wall, and bring a global perspective to a very common problem: misaligned behavior that derails teams, kills morale, and destroys results. You’ll hear:Why people are hired for experience, promoted for results, and fired for behavior, plus how to stop the cycle.How to uncover your organization’s covert values (the ones people actually live by).The truth about AI in hiring: built-in biases, lawsuits, and what leaders must test before they trust the tech.Real-world stories showing how leadership shifts can tank culture or revive it.The simple, powerful question to ask during interviews to expose value alignment (or misalignment).David’s message is clear: Authentic leadership and behavioral fit aren’t “nice to haves", they’re your competitive edge.🔗 Interested in David’s insights? Dive deeper into his work via his website and on LinkedIn.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: [email protected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━