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The Culture Works Podcast

Culture Works

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Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 17

The Culture Works Podcast dives deep into the evolving dynamics of leadership and workplace culture. Hosted by bestselling authors and leadership experts Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, this show brings real conversations with C-suite leaders, HR changemakers, and cultural innovators. From recognition and psychological safety to AI disruptions and hybrid work, every episode helps today’s leaders thrive—not just survive. Whether you’re leading a team of five or five thousand, discover practical insights to build cultures that connect, perform, and endure.

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24/07/2026
#89
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17/06/2026
#69
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24/04/2026
#84
🇨🇦 Canada - management
06/10/2025
#72
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05/10/2025
#39
🇨🇦 Canada - management
04/10/2025
#29
🇨🇦 Canada - management
03/10/2025
#20
🇺🇸 USA - management
03/10/2025
#89
🇨🇦 Canada - management
02/10/2025
#18
🇺🇸 USA - management
02/10/2025
#64

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The Culture Works Podcast - Trailer

Season 1

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 • Duration 00:46

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Unlocking HR Potential w. Roseanne Donohue

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Duration 22:34

An 866% increase in diverse candidates just by letting AI rewrite a job description. That's not a projection. That's something Roseanne Donahue actually did. As a former Chief People Officer in cybersecurity and a veteran of Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and JP Morgan, Roseanne has operated at the intersection of highly regulated, high-stakes environments and fast-moving tech culture. In this conversation, she walks Chester and Adrian through exactly how she's using AI right now in recruiting, L&D, performance management, and engagement surveys and why the companies winning with AI aren't the ones moving fastest, but the ones moving smartest.

Timestamps:

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:01 From Finance to Cybersecurity

01:54 Attracting Cybersecurity Talent

02:54 Career Pathing and Retention

04:30 AI in Recruiting Wins

05:26 AI Augments HR Work

06:13 Leading Adoption Without Fear

07:34 AI for Learning and Development

09:06 Tools and Performance Reviews

10:48 PE Networks and Agentic AI

12:11 Culture and Engagement Analytics

14:13 Culture Challenge Core Building Blocks

17:19 Privacy Guardrails and Ethics

18:20 Lightning Round and Wrap Up

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Collect, Gather, Go w. Cory Rose

Season 1 · Episode 10

Thursday, April 2, 2026 • Duration 33:11

Most HR leaders inherit a system. Cory Rose inherited a vacuum. Stepping into Eyecare Services Partners as CHRO with no predecessor for 18 months, a brand new C-suite, 1,500 employees across multiple states, and a core HR team of four, she had every reason to play it safe. Instead, she got on a plane. In this conversation, Cory breaks down her "collect, gather, go" philosophy, why she flew to a remote practice in Redding, California before building a single initiative, how she ran a five-question SurveyMonkey engagement survey that outperformed anything a big consulting firm had done, and why translating people metrics into EBITDA language is the only way HR gets a seat at the PE table. If you lead a lean HR team inside a fast-moving organization, this one's for you.

Timestamps:

00:00 Collect Gather Go Mindset

00:25 Meet Cory And The Challenge

01:34 Interviewing Into Change

04:06 Diagnosing The Field Reality

06:29 Fixing Systems With A PEO

09:17 Building One Culture Many Practices

11:58 Redding Visit And Trust Building

14:56 Survey Action And Follow Through

16:26 Authentic Leadership Follow Through

17:17 Accountability Through Surveys

17:53 Trust Updates Even When None

19:21 Balancing PE And Culture

21:33 Translate People Metrics To EBITDA

23:19 Leading Transformation As A Team

26:23 Managing Urgency With Team Charter

28:29 Lightning Round CHRO And IPO

31:05 Healthcare Workforce Future

32:16 Wrap Up And Where To Connect

Reflective Leadership in a Reactive World w. Tiffany Nugent

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, March 12, 2026 • Duration 29:42

Most wellness programs fail because they're just policies and gym reimbursements. Tiffany Nugent, Chief People Officer at Concert Health and owner of SALT Wellness, learned this the hard way after being hit by a car and recovering while leading 11,000 healthcare employees through COVID. In this conversation, Tiffany shares her philosophy of reflective leadership, why psychological safety is the universal foundation for high performance, how AI is creating HR's biggest strategic opportunity in decades, and what it actually takes to build cultures where people thrive instead of just survive. A refreshingly honest look at what real human-centered leadership requires.

Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Opening: Curiosity sparks innovation and change

[00:01:25] Welcome and Tiffany's dual role as CPO and wellness center owner

[00:02:00] Getting hit by a car and the journey to opening SALT Wellness

[00:03:05] Career journey from healthcare to tech to behavioral health

[00:06:20] Why Concert Health and collaborative behavioral care

[00:09:15] Building human-centered workplaces: What does thriving really mean?

[00:11:00] Leadership as privilege and responsibility

[00:13:50] Psychological safety as the universal foundation

[00:16:20] The biggest mistakes CHROs make with wellbeing programs

[00:18:15] What's really going on when leaders get stuck

[00:19:45] Leading from authenticity and dealing with difficult people

[00:22:05] Courage and curiosity as leadership requirements

[00:24:05] What CHROs should focus on with AI disruption

[00:26:15] Lightning round begins

[00:28:35] Where to connect with Tiffany

Own The Change w. Bruce Nichols

Season 1 · Episode 8

Thursday, February 26, 2026 • Duration 32:24

An 80-point engagement swing in three months sounds impossible, but Bruce Nichols did it at Liberty Mutual by doing something radical: he stopped pushing culture from the top down. As a partner at The Human Resource Consortium and former HR leader at companies like Liberty Mutual, Fidelity, and Citizens Bank, Bruce shares how he transformed a failing tech organization by empowering first-line managers to own the change. In this conversation, Bruce reveals why HR technology fails without solid process foundations, how to build integrated people-first systems, and why bureaucracy is killing corporate HR. If you're an HR leader tired of surveys that go nowhere and initiatives that don't stick, this episode will change how you think about culture transformation.

Timestamps:

[00:00:00] The 80-point culture transformation story begins
[00:02:00] How Liberty Mutual's tech division was hemorrhaging talent
[00:03:50] The five-point plan that changed everything
[00:06:25] Why storytelling and being heard drove the transformation
[00:07:30] The moment Bruce realized top-down culture pushes don't work
[00:09:20] When first-line managers became the culture owners
[00:11:25] What mini-celebrity status really means for HR credibility
[00:13:25] Building trust in low-engagement environments
[00:14:05] Why technology on broken systems makes things worse
[00:16:00] The "One HR" approach to breaking down silos
[00:18:15] Mapping the entire employee journey to find what's broken
[00:21:20] Why Bruce says "don't buy HR tech"
[00:23:00] The moment Bruce decided to leave corporate HR
[00:25:10] Where HR is heading in the next 3-5 years
[00:27:00] The embedded HR model that's emerging
[00:28:30] Lightning round: Best Army leadership lesson
[00:30:20] What HR trend makes Bruce skeptical (spoiler: AI)
[00:31:00] What "culture works" means to Bruce

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Building Award-Winning Culture w. Shawn Premer

Season 1 · Episode 7

Thursday, February 12, 2026 • Duration 31:37

When your organization wins Best and Brightest Company to Work For ten consecutive years, you're doing something right. Shawn Premer, CHRO of Consumers Credit Union, shares how she's maintained award-winning culture through pandemic uncertainty, financial stress, and the mental health crisis while driving 38 consecutive years of double-digit organic growth.

In this conversation, Shawn reveals how Consumers Credit Union approaches employee wellbeing in high-stress, member-facing roles. She discusses their partnership with Be Nice for suicide prevention, the decision to bring employees back five days a week, and how they balance deep care for people with high performance accountability.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction and Shawn's background

[02:11] Journey from 110 to 500 employees while maintaining culture

[04:30] What keeps Shawn engaged after 15 years

[06:20] How credit union membership shapes culture and purpose

[08:15] Real stories of helping members through financial struggles

[10:20] Partnership with Be Nice for suicide prevention

[13:05] Removing stigma around mental health conversations

[15:10] Starting mental health support in your organization

[17:30] Leading member-facing teams through emotional moments

[20:20] Decompression strategies for high-stress roles

[22:10] Bringing employees back five days a week

[24:15] Culture challenge: Balancing care with accountability

[27:15] What strategic HR really means

[28:25] Lightning round: Best advice, recommended books, and HR trends

The AI Powered Culture Revolution w. Laura Butler

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, January 29, 2026 • Duration 25:39

What if AI could make your workplace more human, not less? Laura Butler, Chief People Officer at TTEC, is proving this isn't just possible, it's already happening. Leading HR for over 50,000 employees across 25 countries, Laura shares how her team uses AI to strip away robotic tasks and unlock human creativity, connection, and innovation. From personalized onboarding experiences with "Louie" the digital concierge to prompt engineering that teaches leaders to ask better questions, Laura demonstrates how technology can drive extraordinary employee and customer experiences at scale. She tackles the biggest misconceptions about AI in HR, reveals how to create cohesive culture across diverse global teams, and offers concrete ROI strategies that go beyond the "soft skills" debate. If you're navigating the intersection of technology and human-centered leadership, this conversation will shift how you think about the future of work.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Opening: The AI revolution in HR and human potential

[02:00] Practical AI applications transforming productivity at scale

[04:45] Navigating resistance: From 50-year-olds to Marshall Goldsmith's AI embrace

[08:20] How prompt engineering makes you a better leader

[09:00] Building cohesive culture across 25 countries

[10:30] Non-negotiables: Service mindset and "Act as One" philosophy

[12:05] Creating innovation culture: Celebrating experiments, not punishing failures

[14:05] Technology-enabled employee journey: Recruitment through retention

[18:20] The Culture Challenge: Proving ROI on psychological safety

[23:55] Lightning Round: People are magic, and HR's future is untapped

[24:55] Why culture matters more than strategy

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The Cultural Evolution of HR w. Dave Ulrich

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, December 18, 2025 • Duration 30:50

In this powerful conversation, Dave Ulrich, the "Father of Modern HR" and University of Michigan professor, transforms how we think about HR's role in building culture. Discover why the most successful HR leaders focus on customer value over internal processes, how organizational culture beats individual talent 4-to-1 in driving results, and why AI requires "authentic intimacy" to truly work. Dave shares real examples of HR leaders who turned culture initiatives into billion-dollar business outcomes, plus his contrarian take on leading through uncertainty by focusing on what you're certain about. Whether you're in HR, leadership, or culture change, this episode will shift your perspective on creating workplace cultures that actually drive business performance.

Key Topics Discussed:

Why HR is "not about HR", it's about creating stakeholder value
The 4:1 advantage of organizational culture over individual talent
How to build culture from the customer's perspective
The AI paradox: Artificial Intelligence × Authentic Intimacy
Leading through uncertainty by focusing on certainty
Real case studies of culture driving billion-dollar results

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction: Embracing Uncertainty in Culture
00:29 Welcome to the Culture Work Podcast
01:01 Meet Dave Ulrich: The Father of Modern HR
01:56 The Evolution of HR: From Administrative to Strategic
04:55 The Importance of HR in Business Strategy
09:11 HR's Role in Building Culture and Teams
12:39 Shifts in HR Over the Last Decade
15:52 Understanding Your Top Customers
16:10 The Role of AI in HR
18:40 The Paradox of AI
22:16 Culture Challenge Segment
28:53 Lightning Round and Conclusion

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Building A World-Renowned Culture w. Garry Ridge

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, November 20, 2025 • Duration 32:43

What does it take to grow a company from $250 million to $3.5 billion while maintaining 98% employee retention and respect for leadership? Former WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge joins Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton to share the leadership philosophy that transformed his company into a global powerhouse.

In this inspiring conversation, Garry reveals how a chance encounter with the Dalai Lama's wisdom at 38,000 feet sparked a cultural revolution. Learn about the power of "learning moments" over failures, why WD-40 celebrates the 39 formulas that didn't work, and how servant leadership principles created psychological safety across a global workforce.

Garry shares practical insights on building tribal cultures, the "Maniac Pledge" that eliminated finger-pointing, and why values must be hierarchical to truly guide decision-making. Plus, discover how focusing on safety, customers, and business fundamentals helped WD-40 thrive during the pandemic.

Key Topics:

Transforming from manager to coach mindset
Creating learning moments instead of failure culture
Building global tribal cultures with clear values
Leading through uncertainty and crisis
The ROI timeline for culture transformation
Servant leadership in practice

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to Leadership Challenges

00:31 Welcome to the Culture Work Podcast

00:51 Introducing Garry, Former CEO of WD-40

02:11 Garry's Leadership Journey and Philosophy

04:29 Implementing Servant Leadership at WD-40

06:15 The Importance of Culture and Values

10:23 Learning Moments and Innovation

12:17 The Long-Term Impact of Cultural Change

15:00 Dealing with Resistance to Cultural Change

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