How do you build a business where your people are your competitive advantage? These videos equip HR and L&D leaders with tools and insights to program high-impact, people-first initiatives.
We’ve taken psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and coaching principles and distilled them into actionable behaviors, sharable frameworks, and scalable initiatives.
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May 15, 2025
How Avoiding Mistakes Is Smarter Than Chasing Success
Is brilliance overrated? In this episode, Junior and Dr. Tim Clark reveal why great leaders don’t obsess over genius—they focus on avoiding failure.
What Non-HR Execs Need to Know About Psych Safety
When it comes to implementing psychological safety as a cultural initiative, there's a moral argument, and there's a performance argument.
Overcoming Organizational Fear in 3 Practical Steps
Overcoming organizational fear is the key to unlocking innovation and high performance. Here are 3 practical strategies to dismantle fear in your teams.
What You Need to Know About Project Aristotle
Team interactions are the key to fostering psychological safety. Here are the practical tools you need to put Project Aristotle's findings into actual practice.
7 Things Psychological Safety Is Not
Discover the top 7 misconceptions surrounding psychological safety and what to do about them.
How to Build Inclusion Safety
How do you activate the power of diversity? Through the foundational stage of psychological safety, inclusion.
Video Episodes
How Avoiding Mistakes Is Smarter Than Chasing Success
Is brilliance overrated? In this episode, Junior and Dr. Tim Clark reveal why great leaders don’t obsess over genius—they focus on avoiding failure.
How to Avoid Manipulative Leadership: 2 Failure Patterns Sabotaging Organizational Change
In this episode, we uncover the two most common failure patterns in change management: smuggling and muscling.
The Hidden Danger of Stability: How Great Teams Build Resilience
What if the stability you’re working so hard to protect is actually what’s holding your team back? In this episode, we explore the Stability-Stress Paradox — the idea that too much comfort can quietly stall innovation, weaken resilience, and prevent growth.
Constructive Dissent at Work: How to Turn Conflict Into Innovation
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Navigating Leadership in the AI Era
In this episode, we explore why waiting for organizational AI adoption is a mistake, how fear stifles innovation, and three practical steps for navigating AI in leadership.
Emotional Regulation For Leaders: Staying Calm Under Pressure
How can a leader stay composed in the face of dissent and bad news? Let's talk about it.
Mastering the Autonomy-Accountability Balance in Leadership
Without autonomy, teams feel suffocated. Without accountability, they fall apart. How do you find the right balance?
4 Coaching Derailers That Are Ruining Your Career
How do you resolve the most-common coaching skills gaps in an organization? Here are 4 things to consider.
Fear vs. Innovation: How Toxic Cultures Kill Organizations
Learn how to drive out fear and foster innovation through psychological safety.
How to Overcome a Legacy Culture
Legacy cultures stifle innovation, force out top talent, and hurt growth. Learn how to overcome them in this episode.
What Non-HR Execs Need to Know About Psych Safety
When it comes to implementing psychological safety as a cultural initiative, there's a moral argument, and there's a performance argument.
6 Pitfalls of Large-Scale Psychological Safety Initiatives
We’ve taken the top 6 failure patterns L&D professionals make when programming a psychological safety initiative, dissected them, and detailed solutions to help you ensure success.
Overcoming Organizational Fear in 3 Practical Steps
Overcoming organizational fear is the key to unlocking innovation and high performance. Here are 3 practical strategies to dismantle fear in your teams.
What You Need to Know About Project Aristotle
Team interactions are the key to fostering psychological safety. Here are the practical tools you need to put Project Aristotle's findings into actual practice.
7 Things Psychological Safety Is Not
Discover the top 7 misconceptions surrounding psychological safety and what to do about them.
What to Do With a Toxic Leader
What are the HR best practices when it comes to toxic leadership? Here are two intervention strategies to try.
How to Measure Psychological Safety
Psychological safety is a cultural initiative that was made to be measured. Let’s talk about how to measure it effectively.
How to Measure Emotional Intelligence
What should you look for when evaluating EQ instruments? Learn how to use EQindex™ in a coaching scenario.
Psychological Safety: The Collective EQ of a Team
Learn how to program and sequence psychological safety and emotional intelligence training in your organization.
EQ & Social Regard: Do you actually care about your team?
Healthy influence starts with positive intent. Learn 5 practical behaviors to improve your social regard as a leader.
EQ: Your Delivery System
Learn how to contribute effectively while contributing indirectly.
Becoming an Experience Leader
Learn how to avoid bleeding talent and stifling innovation with these practical strategies.
How to Build Challenger Safety
Discover how to create challenger safety individually, within a team, and throughout an organization.
How to Build Contributor Safety
Learn how to empower your team with autonomy, guidance, and encouragement in exchange for effort and results.
How to Build Learner Safety
We can either cultivate or crush, nurture or neglect, stimulate or stifle learner safety. Here are 3 practical ways to build it.
How to Build Inclusion Safety
How do you activate the power of diversity? Through the foundational stage of psychological safety, inclusion.
The Coaching and Accountability Matrix
Learn how to increase your team's capacity, transfer critical thinking, and increase autonomy with the ultimate coaching diagnostic tool.
The 3 Levels of Accountability
Discover the relationship between autonomy and accountability through 3 distinct levels: Task, Process, and Outcome.
The Coaching Continuum
The Coaching Continuum, which runs from "tell" on one end to "ask" on the other, will help you identify your leadership coaching style.
Audio Episodes
How to Turn Managers into Leaders
Redefining Intelligence
The Resilience Cycle: Disturbance, Adaptation, and Recovery
The Dangers of Contingent Self-Esteem
Leadership is an Invitation
Do Little Things For a Long Time
The Two Leadership Failure Patterns
3D Interviews: 10 Questions That Aren't Cliche
What Employees Need from Leaders in Uncertain Times
5 Subtle Signs of Leadership Potential
The 6 Domains of Emotional Intelligence: Believe, Know, and Do
What Do You Do With a Toxic Leader?
The Leadership Journey Part Three: Leads the Business
The Leadership Journey Part Two: Leads the Team
The Leadership Journey Part One: Leads Self
Can You Have Too Much Psychological Safety?
How to Challenge the Status Quo (Pt.2)
How to Challenge the Status Quo (Pt. 1)
2023 Psychological Safety Year In Review
The 5 Alignment Questions
Transferring Ownership and Critical Thinking as a Leader
How to Improve Emotional Intelligence
The Causal Chain Between Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety
Emotional Intelligence and The Experience Economy
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Psychological Safety: From Theory to Practice
Creating Cultural Accountability
How to Measure Culture
The Patterns of High-Performing Teams
Challenger Safety in Practice
Contributor Safety in Practice
Beware the Tyranny of Your Expertise
Learner Safety in Practice
Mission Type Orders
Inclusion Safety in Practice
Excavate Your Talents
Building a Culture Where Employees Feel Free to Speak Up
Use Minimum Necessary Intervention to Liberate Talent
The Social Exchanges of Psychological Safety
Adversity is an Opportunity for Beauty
Psychological Safety for Managers
Proximity Prevents Hostility
The Coaching and Accountability Matrix
Urgency is a Catalyst, Seldom A Sustainer
Micro Cultures & The Single Most Important Variable for Psychological Safety
Mistakes Are Not the Exception, They Are the Expectation
Violations of Psychological Safety and Their Costs
Leaders Get Paid for Judgment
The Ladder of Vulnerability
Become an Agile, Self-directed Learner
Vision: Investing in the Future
Leadership Makes it Harder to Get to Reality
Judgment: Making Decisions as a Leader
You Will Grow Based on What You Demand of Yourself
Change: Building Resilient Organizations & People
Learning: Maintaining Your Competitive Advantage
Courage & Your Leadership to Management Ratio
Accountability - Owning Your Outcomes
Humility - The Final Stage of Confidence
Integrity - Are you for sale?
Leading with Character & Competence: The Core & The Crust
Pt.2 Beyond the Office: Psychological Safety in Personal Relationships
Beyond the Office: Psychological Safety in Personal Relationships
Navigating Cultural Differences: The Key to Psychological Safety in Global Teams
Psychological Safety in Healthcare
The Human Side of Layoffs: How Companies Can Prioritize People and Culture Amidst Uncertainty
The Catastrophic Consequences of a "Nice" Culture
Why Psychological Safety Is Impossible Without Emotional Intelligence
How to Promote Psychological Safety as an Early Adopter
10 Misleading Leadership Theories
Two Leadership Failure Patterns: Paternalism and Exploitation
The 5 Functions of Leadership
Achieving Physical Safety Through Psychological Safety
What Psychological Safety is Not
How a CEO Can Create Psychological Safety in the Room
(Pt.5) How Mental Health and Wellness is Driving Demand for Psychological Safety
(Pt.4) The Impact of Psychological Safety on Engagement and Retention
(Pt.3) Competitiveness and Innovation
(Pt.2) Exclusion and Social Injustice
What's Driving the Demand for Psychological Safety?
How to Bridge from Diversity to Inclusion
The Intersection Between Diversity, Inclusion, and Innovation
Agile Doesn't Work Without Psychological Safety
Why Some Leaders Are Afraid of Psychological Safety
Hiring, Firing & Promotion with Psychological Safety
Where Great Culture Starts
Navigating Vulnerability at Work
How to Create a Deeply Inclusive Culture
What is Psychological Safety?
Stage Four: Challenger Safety
Stage Three: Contributor Safety
Stage Two: Learner Safety
Stage One: Inclusion Safety
Invest in Your Well-Being with Melody Wilding
Don't Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation
Employee Engagement or Psychological Safety: Which Comes First?
Leaning into Self-Awareness with Caroline von Koenig
Be a Human Leader with Lindsay Kaplan
Meeting People Where They Are with Bobbye Sweat