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Episode 253: A Community Shaping Its Future

Episode 252: The Integrity Slippery Slope: When Silence Becomes Complicity

Episode 251: Pamper Your Middle Managers

Episode 250: The AI Paradox: Embrace the Not Knowing

Episode 249: When the Leadership Playbook No Longer Works

Episode 248: Where You Sit Shapes What You See

Episode 247: Navigating AI’s Impact on Work

Episode 246: Is OD Ready for What’s Coming?

Episode 245: A Change Formula That Works

Episode 244: I Need You to Become a Better Me

Episode 243: Changing the Room Changes the Conversation

Episode 242: We Can’t Ignore What’s Wrong Anymore

Episode 241: Paper Plate Wisdom

Episode 240: American Democracy - The Greatest Organizational Design Experiment Ever

Episode 239: More Peter Drucker – OD Insights on Getting the Right Things Done

Episode 238: The Secret Ingredients Behind Fast Organizational Change

Episode 237: The Family Trap – Should Workplace Culture Embrace Family Values?

Episode 236: The OD Praise Conundrum

Episode 235: When Change Management Isn’t OD

Episode 234: The Workplace as an Island of Sanity: Creating Stability in Uncertain Times

Episode 233: Old Wisdom, New Work: Drucker’s Lessons for HR and OD

Episode 232: Men Lead Like This. Women Lead Like That… Or Do They?

Episode 231: Why OD Should Own the Workplace Conversation—But Rarely Does

Episode 230: If You’re Not Asking Why, It’s Not OD

Episode 229: When OD Gets in the Way (And What to Do About It)

Episode 228: Leadership in Uncertain Times — Don’t Wait for Optimism, Generate It

Episode 227: If OD Can’t Create Hope, Who Will?

Episode 226: The Problem Isn’t the Strategy — It’s the Thinking

Episode 225: The Culture You Have (Not the One You Talk About)

Episode 224: OD’s 2026 Reality Check: What Actually Deserves Your Attention

Episode 223: Clearing the Fog: Why Decluttering Isn’t the Point

Episode 222: What the Business Demands from Its Leaders This Year

Episode 221: Come Play in Our 2026 Rejuvenation Sandbox

Episode 220: Starting Fresh: What Actually Makes a Reset Stick

Episode 219: Happiness at Work: The Data Leaders Can’t Ignore

Episode 218: A Practical Way to Read What Your Organization Is Trying to Tell You

Episode 217: Unlocking Human Potential: A Conversation with Alfredo Borodowski, PhD, MSW

Episode 216: How the Words We Use Lift — or Limit — Us

Episode 215: Speaking Truth to Power: A Conversation with Bernie Youngblood

Episode 214: Outsourcing HR: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Episode 213: Leading with Purpose and Passion — A Conversation with Bishop Kevin Foreman

Episode 212: 🎙️ From Dismissal to Discovery: Finding Purpose After a Layoff with Steve Jaffe

Episode 211: Safe Spaces in a Fractured World: Leading with Intention

Episode 210: Why Neurodivergent Leaders Hold Untapped Power: Insights from Rita Ramakrishnan, PCC, ACTC

Episode 209: Quit the Guilt Trips, Get Real Buy-In

Episode 208: The Power of Grit: Blue-Collar Heroes Among Us

Episode 207: Hard Lessons, Simple Rules: What Really Works in OD

Episode 206: Resistance Isn’t the Enemy

Episode 205: Unleashing Energy Part 2: The Hidden Force in Leadership and Culture

Episode 204: The Power We Don’t See (But Feel Everywhere)

Episode 203: Exploring Joyce’s Career Path: Twists, Turns, and Boyfriends

Episode 202: Assessment Grit: Knowing Before Doing

Episode 201: The Power of “I Want…”

Episode 200: Episode 200 – Time to Reflect, Celebrate, and Appreciate

Episode 199: Thriving in Chaos: It's Happening to All of Us

Episode 198: Michelle Griffin Ph.D.: Building a Business and a Life That Works

Episode 197: 🎙 Resiliency Face-Off, Part 2: Spoiler—Ours Wins

Episode 196: The Resilience Face-Off: Street Smarts Meets Sloan MIT Smarts

Episode 195: Flugidity Revisited: Why We’re Still Talking About Structure vs. Flexibility Back by popular demand… or maybe just our own curiosity.

Episode 194: Tight Ship or Jazz Band? Finding Balance in Today’s Workplace

Episode 193: Beyond Ping Pong Tables: How to Build a Culture of Care

Episode 192: The Chosen Few: A Talent Strategy That’s Holding You Back

Episode 191: Creating Islands of Sanity in the Chaos – Part 2

Episode 190: Getting Unstuck with Ernesto Gómez Arzapalo – OD Expert, Author, Academic, Entrepreneur... and All-Around Great Human

Episode 189: Letting Employees Go – Do It Right or Pay the Price

Episode 188: OD Challenge: Who Do We Choose to Be?

Episode 187: Where Science Meets OD Practice – A Conversation with Dr. Rob Lion

Episode 186: Brace for Impact: How to Survive Workplace Change

Episode 185: Speaking Up or Staying Silent? Leadership in a Polarized World

Episode 184: Lead with Intention: Make Every Moment Count

Episode 183: Lead Like a Person, Not a Position - A Conversation with Mark Carpenter

Episode 182: Rethinking Leadership: The 5 Must-have Qualities for Today’s World

Episode 181: Blue Collar Power From the Ground Up – A Conversation with Ryan Englin

Episode 180: Managing Without Power – A conversation with Joris Merks-Benjaminsen

Episode 179: 2025 - The Year of Doing Something! (Some will work, others won’t)

Episode 178: This Podcast: A Refuge for Inspiration and Recharging

Episode 177: Bittersweet Tidings: The paradox of Holiday Cheer

Episode 176: Honoring OD/HR: The Legacy We Leave Behind

Episode 175: Workplace Connection – The Cure for Loneliness

Episode 174: DEI 2.0: Reinventing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Episode 173: TeamSpeak: Unlocking Potential Through Dialogue

Episode 172: What Keeps Us ‘All In’ Despite Life’s Curveballs

Episode 171: The X Factor in Leadership

Episode 170: Getting Unstuck When Rules & Norms No Longer Apply

Episode 169: What Makes a Great CEO? (It's Not What You May Think)

Episode 168: A Conversation with Corey Spitzer – Humble Start-up Guru & Sausage Maker

Episode 167: Lessons from Fender Bender Entrepreneurs

Episode 166: The Antidote to Dull Thinking

Episode 165: CEO Flaws and Flubs

Episode 164: Getting from Checked Out to All In

Episode 163: The Goal-Setting Conundrum

Episode 162: Be Someone Worth Following

Episode 161: Company Culture – Making the Invisible Seen

Episode 160: Essential OD Values

Episode 159: Stuff That Irritates Us – Part 2

Episode 158: Stuff That Irritates Us

Episode 157: People Analytics Is More Than Just Data – A Conversation with Andrea Derler

Episode 156: The Power and Irritation of a Good Question

Episode 155: The Magic of Self-Organizing Communities

Episode 154: The Power of Setting Work Norms