All Episodes

Crucial Talks Episode 113: Looking Ahead to Move Through Tough Times

Crucial Talks Episode 112: Resilience NOW... Short-Term Tools for Tough Times

Crucial Talks Episode 111: Ariel Garten Fear of Fear and how to get Free

Crucial Talks Episode 110: Control Your Confidence

Crucial Talks Episode 109: What Makes People Tick with John Voris

Crucial Talks Episode 108 Knowledge Not Just Information

Crucial Talks Episode 107: J Scott It's Not About Business, It's About People

Crucial Talks Episode 106: Susan Ibitz, The "Human Hacker"

Crucial Talks Episode 105: Safety - Focus on People, Impact the Organization with Mike King

Crucial Talks Episode 104: Thanksgiving - The Power of Gratitude

Crucial Talks Episode 103: Technostress with Carolyn Guglielmo

Crucial Talks Episode 102: Gabriella Van Rij on the Importance of Kindness and How to be Kind in the Workplace

Crucial Talks Episode 101: Jay Allen Safety FM, Safety Differently and the Importance of People

Crucial Talks Episode 100: Chris Clearfield on Meltdowns, How Systems Fail, and What We Can Do About It

Crucial Talks Episode 99: Dennie Laney Moo Yah Burger and People for People

Crucial Talks Episode 98 Purdeep Sangha on Mindset and Mindfulness for Success

Crucial Talks Episode 97: Magical Conversations with Pauline Crawford

Crucial Talks Episode 96: Standing Out with Donna Spina

Crucial Talks Episode 95 Gary Salyer on the Importance of Feeling Welcomed, Worthy, Cherished, and Empowered in Relationships

Crucial Talks Episode 94: Voice and Influence with Cynthia Zhai

Crucial Talks Episode 93: Slips and Falls Leads to a Talk on Perception, Stories, and Engaging with Others with Christian Harris

Crucial Talks Episode 92: Workplace Experience and Employee Engagement with Daren Martin

Crucial Chat: Trust and Storytelling when Getting a Backstage Pass

Crucial Talks Episode 91: Leadership and The Music Paradigm with Maestro Roger Nierenberg

Crucial Chat: My Brighter View of Behavior-Based Safety

Crucial Talks Episode 90: The 7 P's of Resilience with Tracy Mehr-Muska

Crucial Talks Episode 89: Mindset, Collaboration, and Success with Amy Perkins and Joelle Speed

Crucial Talks Episode 88: Uncertainty and the OODA Loop with Sean Romero

Crucial Talks Episode 87: The Uniqueness of Success - Building Capacity and the Importance of Feedback with Jeanette Peacock

Crucial Talks Episode 86: Stories Help us Understand with Ayn Cates Sullivan

Crucial Talks Episode 85: Glenn Livingston Self-Transformation and Group Acceleration - Lessons from Food Addiction

Crucial Talks Episode 84: Ani Anderson on Finding Your Purpose

Crucial Talks Episode 83: Todd Vande Hei on Leadership, Millennials, and Stories

Crucial Chat: Work as Purpose

Crucial Talks Episode 82: Erik Clark - An Engineer turned Entrepreneur on Reinventing Ourselves and the Importance of People

Crucial Talks Episode 81: Appreciative Resilience with Joan MacArthur Blair and Jeanie Cockell

Crucial Talks Episode 80: Lynda Sunshine West on Learning, Fear, and Relationships

Crucial Talks Episode 79: Joshua Spodek on Leadership. You Have to Practice

Crucial Talks Episode 78 Glenn Garnes: Isolation is the Problem Communication is the Solution

Crucial Talks Episode 77 Chris Milburn - Stories Build Culture, Lessons from Counter-Terrorism

Crucial Talks Episode 76: Sam Lucania on Self-Transformation, Responsibility, and Mentorship

Crucial Talks Episode 75: Deb Falzoi on the Epidemic of Workplace Bullying and Abuse

Crucial Talks Episode 74: Me with Jay Allen - A Rebroadcast of Safety FM Ep 55

Crucial Talks Episode 73: Dolores Hirschmann Clarity, People, and Ideas

Crucial Talks Episode 72: Lawrence Henderson - Bridging the Gap, Life, L.O.V.E., and Leadership

Crucial Talks Episode 71: Regina McMichael The Safety Training Ninja

Crucial Talks Episode 70: Carrie Wooten on Cleaning a Toxic Work Environment

Crucial Talks Episode 69: Rob Howze on Networking for a Great Cause

Crucial Talks Episode 68: Melinda Kelly on Diving Deep Within

Crucial Chat: Goals and Groups - Working Without Pay

Crucial Talks Episode 67: Leadership and the Hero's Journey with Brian Cunningham

Crucial Chat: Sometimes You Take a Ball to the Face

Crucial Talks Episode 66 - Dan Oblinger Life and Death Listening

Crucial Talks Episode 65: Douglas Vermeeren - Personal Power Mastery

Crucial Talks Best of 2018

Crucial Talks Episode 64: Jason Weber Trust, Relationships, and Self-Awareness in the Real World

Crucial Talks Episode 63: The Communication ClausE

Crucial Chat: Be The Hero of Your Own Story - Bumblebee and Optimus Prime

Crucial Talks Episode 62: Brian Cunningham - Leadership Revolution Because Evolution Takes Too Long

Crucial Talks Episode 61: Jill Christensen on Employee Engagement

Crucial Chat: Building Capacity with Communication

Crucial Talks Episode 60 Brave Leadership with Kimberly Davis

Crucial Chat: Communicating from a Good Place. It Matters.

Crucial Talks Episode 59 Rick Grimes and Lessons on Decision-Making

Crucial Chat: Gratitude - Positive Social Emotion and Emotional Intelligence

Crucial Talks Episode 58 Risk Tolerance and Building Your Personal Brand

Crucial Chat: Antidote to Anxiety - Shift your Mindset

Crucial Chat: The WHY of The Crucial Talks Podcast

Crucial Talks Episode 57 Jason Lauritsen on Unlocking High Performance

Crucial Talks Episode 56 Mark Gober on Consciousness and Ending Upside Down Thinking

Crucial Talks Episode 55 Isaac Tolpin Trust, Engagement, and Employee Development

Crucial Talks Episode 54 Amberly Lago Perception, Tribes, and Triumph

Crucial Talks Episode 53 Kevin Murphy and the Three Rooms

Crucial Talks Episode 52 Cheryl Rice the You Matter Marathon...No Running Required

Crucial Talks Episode 51 Jackie Stavros and More Conversations Worth Having

Crucial Talks Episode 50: Nate Regier, A Sherpa of Conflict, on Compassionate Accountability

Crucial Talks Episode 49 Three Degrees of Influence: My Friend Bob Sakamano

Crucial Talks Episode 48 Karen Jaw-Madson on Culture Your Culture - Designing Work Experiences so People and Business Thrive

Crucial Talks Episode 47 Seinfeld vs. Costanza: Changing Conversations to Remove Conflict

Crucial Talks Episode 46 Cheri Torres and Conversations Worth Having

Crucial Talks Episode 45 Marques Ogden 3 Steps to Transformation and 3 Steps to Trust

Crucial Talks Episode 44: Melissa Agnes on being Crisis Ready and Brand Invincibility

Crucial Talks Episode 43 Esther Weinberg on the Dignity Zone: Trust, Respect, and Safety in Life and the Workplace

Crucial Talks Episode 42 Joe Romm on Social Storytelling and How to go Viral and Reach Millions

Crucial Talks Episode 41 Maja Kazazic Positive Perspective and Relationships

Crucial Talks Episode 40 Steve Sims on Imperfection is our Perfection - Trust, Relationships, and Positive Mindset

Crucial Talks Episode 39 Appreciative Inquiry - People Positive: Lightbulbs and Lifeblood of Organizations

Crucial Talks Episode 38 Name, Blame, & Shame Game - Intergroup Relationships

Crucial Talks Episode 37 Self-Transformation - Four Step Process in Heartbreak Ridge and October Sky

Crucial Talks Episode 36 People, Purpose, and Potential with Jeffrey Davidson

Crucial Talks Episode 35 Legacy, Leadership, Lug Nuts - Rocky Romanella

Crucial Talks Episode 34 Transformation and Trust with Nichole Carlson

Crucial Talks Episode 33 Empathy and Cooperation - Walking In Someone Else's Shoes

Crucial Talks Episode 32 Emotionally Compromised or Emotionally Competent - Spock vs. Kirk

Crucial Talks Episode 31 Top Gun Day! Lagging vs Leading Indicators and using Appreciative Inquiry

Crucial Talks Episode 30 Discipline Disrupts Discussion - Bueller, Bueller... Learning from Ferris and a Ferrari

Crucial Talks Episode 29 How Networks...Work - Armageddon and Soldiers - Goals and Categories.

Crucial Talks Episode 28 Reduce Trauma with Communication - Deepwater Horizon and The Office

Crucial Talks Episode 27 Problems with Problem-Solving - Sobel and Easy Company

Crucial Talks Episode 26: The Sons of Anarchy - Esteem and Identity in Group Behavior

Crucial Talks Episode 25 They Wanted To Blow Up My Town - Groupthink and Identity

Crucial Talks Episode 24 Buford T Justice and the Social Power of Identity

Crucial Talks Episode 23 Rocky vs. Thunderlips - Roles and Rules

Crucial Talks Episode 22 Swiss Cheese, Little Ninjas, and Capacity Building - Appreciative Inquiry

Crucial Talks Episode 21 Changing Behavior - Coaching and Categorization

Crucial Talks Episode 20 Crowds, Conflicts, and Compromise - They're not zombies, they're just fans

Crucial Talks Episode 19 Selflessness and Sacrifice Lessons from Parkland, FL Be For Someone or Something

Crucial Talks Episode 18: Acting As If - Comparative and Normative Fit (Lessons by Ferrell and Wahlberg)

Crucial Talks Episode 17 Fear, Feelings, and Failure - Bullying is Bad

Crucial Talks Episode 16 Generating More Than Electricity - Diversity Lessons from a Geothermal Power Plant

Crucial Talks Episode 15 To Err is Human, but not SAC Policy

Crucial Talks Episode 14: Risks and Roles, Sense-making and Decision-making - R-100 & R-101

Crucial Talks Episode 13 Three Legs of the Burnout Stool: Avoiding Dissatisfaction, Fatigue, and Apathy

Crucial Talks Episode 12 Eustress, I Stress, and We Stress. Social groups can build the capacity to deal with stress

Crucial Talks Episode 11 Use Identity to Build Relationships: Christmas Presents, Presence, and Snickers Bars

Crucial Talks Episode 10 Lightning Strikes Twice: Goals and Storytelling

Crucial Talks Episode 9 #metoo - Strength in Numbers and the Power of a Goal

Crucial Talks Episode 8 Stories - Blueprints to Reality

Crucial Chat: The Phalanx - Stronger Together

Crucial Talks Episode 7 Maslow's Motivators - Social Needs at the Top of the Pyramid

Crucial Chat: Appreciative Inquiry - Building Capacity for Long Term Success and Performance

Crucial Talks Episode 6 Stronger Together - Building Resiliency Through Groups

Crucial Talks Episode 5 The Few. The Proud. The Way To Get Different People To Work Together.

Crucial Chat: Motivational - Keep Moving Forward - Audio From Episode 4

Crucial Talks Episode 4 The Path to Success - Importance of Failing Forward

Crucial Talks Episode 3 The Safety Jedi - Human Behavior Surrounds Everything

Crucial Chat: The Core of Continuity is Trust, Confidence, and Competence

Crucial Talks Episode 2 Breaking Barriers: People are the Solution

Crucial Chat: Work Distractions - Lessons from Pilots

Crucial Talks Episode 1 Identity Drives Behavior

Crucial Talks Episode 0 The Introduction