Every business is in some way a “people business” with success or failure often coming down to how leaders manage the people dynamics of their organization. People Business is a weekly podcast focused on what it takes to build and lead a successful, profitable business by navigating the human element.
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Conversations are a Universal Tool w/ Chuck Wisner
Épisode 218
mardi 26 août 2025 • Durée 46:40
Chuck Wisner has spent 30 years as a trusted advisor, coach, and teacher in communication, human dynamics, and leadership excellence. He has worked with leaders and their teams in Fortune 200 companies. He also trained in mediation and worked as a senior mediator affiliated with the Harvard Mediation Program at the Harvard Law School, and later, was associated with MIT’s Center for Organizational Learning. His book, The Art of Conscious Conversations – Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact, explores how to heighten our awareness and become more conscious in our conversations.
Timestamps (02:53) - What is the ‘ontology of language’?
(06:02) – The impact of worldview on the language we use. What is a ‘master story’?
(09:33) – How can we let go of worldviews or change a master story?
(13:15) – How can we contend with negative views of ourselves?
(15:54) – Opinion vs fact: What questions can we ask ourselves about the stories we tell?
(21:34) – How can we break negative patterns and form healthy, positive new patterns?
(24:47) - The four questions: how to explore our thinking during our reactions
(34:27) - Collaboration and collaborative conversations: What makes for good collaborators?
(43:18) - "Conversations are the one human universal tool that we share."
Better People Make for Better Business w/ David Lapin
Épisode 217
mardi 12 août 2025 • Durée 58:59
As founder of Lapin International, David Lapin advises executives worldwide on how to align business strategy with character and corporate culture with purpose. He is the author of Lead by Greatness and a practicing Rabbi. Raised in apartheid-era South Africa, David helped draft one of the world’s first formal corporate ethics codes. He now lives in Israel and travels frequently to the U.S. for client engagements.
(02:14) – What’s it like being a Rabbi and working in the business world?
(06:00) – What kind of role does a Rabbi have outside of a temple?
(10:36) – How does your expanded cultural perspective shape your work as a Rabbi?
Unlocking Creative Leadership w/ Kassi Kincaid
Épisode 216
mercredi 30 juillet 2025 • Durée 56:58
Kassi Kincaid is a leading expert in creative leadership. She is a speaker, trainer, and author committed to helping people leverage their creativity to lead with greater impact and innovation. As the visionary behind Book Days — an international children’s literacy initiative — Kassi has seen how creative thinking can turn small ideas into global movements. Her journey from building a grassroots literacy project to inspiring professionals across industries fuels her mission: to equip leaders and teams with practical creativity frameworks that spark innovation, increase engagement, and drive meaningful change.
(10:15) How did the Book Days initiative come about?
Connecting the Dots Through Internal Communications w/ Alejandra Ramirez
Épisode 215
mardi 15 juillet 2025 • Durée 56:52
Internal communication strategist Alejandra Ramirez is a veteran culture builder with nearly two decades of experience helping organizations align message with meaning. She founded ReadyCultures to help leaders communicate in ways their teams can hear, trust, and act on.
(04:30) What is a “third culture” and what communication challenges does that bring?
(08:01) Are there best practices in internal communications?
(17:52) What do managers need to know about delivering bad news?
(20:48) How can companies uphold a communication strategy and be transparent?
Don't Change, Grow w/ George Watts & Laurie Blazek
Épisode 214
mercredi 2 juillet 2025 • Durée 01:00:38
George Watts is Chairman of Top Line Talent and a nationally recognized author, behavioral scientist, and senior executive. He coaches CEOs on how to build and lead formidable C-Suite teams and is the author of several books, including Becoming Your Own Business Coach and Becoming a Strategic Leader. His passion is inspiring people to mature their natural personality strengths.
Laurie Blazek is President and CEO of Top Line Talent and is coauthor of Becoming a Strategic leader and cocreator of the online Top Line Talent leadership development program. Her passion is to help people specifically define who they are when they’re at their best.
Mentioned on the Show
The book, Becoming a Strategic Leader: Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality: https://a.co/d/09u6VTy
(02:37) What are some of the limitations of leadership coaching?
(11:51) How do we avoid unhealthy comparisons?
Modern Day Etiquette w/ Julie Jones
Épisode 213
mardi 17 juin 2025 • Durée 49:21
Julie Jones is a business protocol and etiquette expert, sought-after public speaker, corporate trainer, and educator. She is certified by the Protocol School of Washington.
(04:50) What's the difference between extroversion and connecting with others?
(06:34) What is involved in modern etiquette?
(11:00) Why do first impressions matter?
(19:53) What is your reaction to the idea of bringing your whole self to work?
(25:22) "Act as pretty as you look."
(28:28) Image vs. brand: what's the difference?
(35:34) How do you align your personal brand with the company brand?
(43:39) Values: show up for others; align with the company; seek what's best.
Humanizing Employment Law w/ Dave Moore
Épisode 212
mardi 3 juin 2025 • Durée 01:02:54
Dave Moore is a partner at Laner Muchin and the firm’s Employment Litigation Department Co-Chair. While Dave spends much of his time defending employers in employment litigation of all shapes and sizes, he has focused much of his 20+ years as an employer lawyer on keeping employers out of the courtroom. Dave has been recognized among Illinois Super Lawyers and Leading Lawyers in 2024 and 2025. Dave was also recognized by the National Law Journal as an Elite Trailblazer in 2022 for work with employers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(00:17) – Introducing Dave Moore, employment attorney
(04:37) – What are the most common employment legal issues?
(08:59) – What are documentation best practices?
(15:22) – How do employers navigate Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations?
(21:11) – How do mental health ADA accommodations work?
Performance Driven HR w/ Amber Pandya
Épisode 211
mardi 20 mai 2025 • Durée 55:05
Amber Pandya loves to help people and businesses thrive. She proves this every day in her role as Senior Director of Employee Experience at G2, where she helps employees reach their PEAK.
(08:17) – What are the key differences and similarities between working in-house versus consulting?
(12:55) – Please explain G2’s "PEAK" values?
(19:16) – What organizational factors does Amber see as blockers to employee performance, either at G2 or in other companies?
(24:34) – How easy or difficult is it to remove a process once it has been implemented at G2?
(27:54) – How does G2 balance its Kindness value with a Performance-Driven culture?
(33:03) – What does authenticity mean at G2? How do you think about bringing your "whole self" to work?
Take Back Your Time w/ the "Time Bandit" Michael Cupps
Épisode 210
mardi 6 mai 2025 • Durée 52:40
Michael Cupps is a productivity expert who has been in technology sales and marketing for over thirty years. He learned the importance of productivity from an early age due to his upbringing on a farm in Texas, which taught him the value of hard work, prioritization, and managing time wisely. Michael applies these lessons to his work helping individuals and teams to make the most of their time and priorities. He is also the host of The Habit Architect podcast and founder of the Time Bandit. Michael’s book and mobile app, Time Bandit, is the ultimate guide for those looking to leave behind chaotic and unmanageable to-do lists and ultimately reclaim their time to live a more balanced and productive life.
Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition, Perfection, and the Need for More w/ Keren Eldad
Épisode 209
mardi 22 avril 2025 • Durée 58:33
Keren Eldad is the author of Gilded: Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More. She specializes in taking high achievers out of the futility of constant pursuit and into their greatest levels of success and fulfillment. Her coaching clients include Olympic athletes, politicians, Hollywood stars, supermodels, Special Forces operatives, and serial entrepreneurs. Keren is a former C-suite executive who has lived and worked in 17 countries and on four continents, and who now coaches leaders all around the globe in four languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew, and French.
(2:58) - How did you come to do the work that you do today?
(9:18) - Why are overachievers reluctant to admit they’re overachievers?
(10:38) - What’s the difference between healthy and unhealthy achievement?
(16:51) - What does it mean to want to become "nobody"?
(18:47) - How do you coach people to let go of status without losing the natural achiever desires?
(26:04) - How does a person rein in their ego and stop playing the status game?
(33:01) - What is and what isn’t self-acceptance?
(38:41) - How do you help people break up with anger?
(50:35) - What do people get wrong about happiness?
(54:25) - How do we cultivate more of a service mindset?
(55:03) - True purpose: Climbing the "second mountain".
(57:33) - Final thoughts for overachievers.
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