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I’m Wendy Brand, Your Culture Coach, dedicated to supporting people-first leaders. Each week we dive into strategies and insights to help you build a workplace where employees feel valued, motivated, and inspired. From fostering tribal values and improving core processes to developing inclusive communities and responsive listening strategies, we cover it all. Join me weekly for practical tips, expert interviews, and real-world examples to help you boost productivity, extinguish burnout and c ...
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Send us a text Excited to share my FREE Workshop on September 26 at 1 PM ET. Sign up here: https://culturecoachwendy.com/freeworkshop/ I believe that Purpose drives Performance. A clear mission gives meaning and direction to the team’s efforts. First, it offers a compelling “why” And, as we’ve discussed knowing your ‘why’ is so important to connect…
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Send us a text Sign up for my FREE Culture Check-In Workshop on Thursday, September 26th at culturecoachwendy.com/freeworkshop My guest today is Gaby Neves. Gaby has over 17 years of experience running Factory360, one of the top award-winning brand activation agencies in the U.S. with clients such as Meta, Amazon, Lacoste and Spotify. Gaby has a pa…
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Send us a text Garrett Delph is Founder and CEO of Clarity Ops. He is a serial entrepreneur and inspiring leader with a remarkable track record. He has founded three successful businesses, collectively generating over $40 million in revenue. As Founder, CEO, and Managing Operating Partner, he has guided leadership teams of over 500 employees. His e…
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Send us a text Episodes are moving to Wednesdays!! Join the Culture Compass newsletter for culture tips and the latest updates on The Culture Coach events and programs at https://culturecoachwendy.com/ Here are four signs that you may need to work on your culture: One of the most obvious signs is lack of engagement by your employees. Maybe even som…
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Send us a text My guest this week is Will Scott. Author of The Culture Fix and founder of The Culture Fix Academy, Will has helped hundreds of businesses around the world fulfill their corporate culture dreams. He leads workshops and speaks regularly using his Alive, Thrive & Drive methodology and is host of The Culture Fix podcast. His 25 year spa…
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Send us a text Today we are talking about employee retention. As a business owner or leader, you know the cost of losing employees. There’s the financial cost…Some studies predict that every time a business replaces a salaried employee, it costs six to nine months of their average salary. So, as an example, if you lose an employee that you are payi…
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Send us a text This is part 2 of a 3-part series with Emily McQueen. If you missed the first episode, you can go back and listen at anytime..it was #067. Emily is currently the Vice President of Talent Enablement, Development, and Employee Experience at New Rocket. She was recently the 2024 recipient of the ATD Global BEST Award, recognized for exc…
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Send us a text My guest for this conversation is Emily McQueen. Emily is currently the Vice President of Talent Enablement, Development, and Employee Experience at NEW ROCKET. New Rocket is a global tech company with just over 500 employees. But, Emily has also worked for much larger organizations with as many as 40,000 global employees. Her expert…
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Send us a text Embedding your core values across the organization is critical to your future success and the creation of your thriving culture. Access my FREE Download to help you define your core values HERE. Brene Brown had this to share on organizational values: “If you’re not going to take the time to translate values from ideals to behaviors—i…
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Send us a text Stacey Olson is a Leadership and Positive Psychology Certified Coach with more than 15 years of corporate and business experience. She works with leaders and teams who want to create more balance, stress less, and perform even better. Stacey is the Founder of The Balanced Leader™ program, offers coaching, workshops, speaking, and is …
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Send us a text Access my FREE Download to help you define your core values HERE. STEP ONE: Define your Mission and Vision Step TWO: Identify your Core Values. Step THREE: Determine the behaviors that define your Core Values. Step FOUR: Issues test your Core Values. Step FIVE: Create your core value descriptors.…
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Send us a text My guest today is Dawn Ellery. Dawn spent 25 years in Human Resources, specifically leading Total Rewards teams across multiple industries. Dawn is wrapping up her book coming out in the Fall: Dirty Little HR Secrets: Why employers are losing billions on engagement and how you can turn it around. She is also a strong advocate for men…
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Send us a text Summary In this episode, Wendy discusses how to operationalize a culture that benefits both employees and the organization as a whole. She defines culture as the shared norms, values, attitudes, and practices that form the collective identity of a company. Wendy introduces her Thrive Culture framework, which consists of six key areas…
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Send us a text My guest today is Shane Spraggs. Shane Spraggs' resume is chocked full of accomplishments from co-founding and acting as COO of Acro Media a web development company that earned a Mid-Sized Company of the Year award from the local Chamber of Commerce in 2007. Overseeing studio operations at Disney Interactive, Serving as VP of Product…
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Send us a text In this episode we discuss the impact of culture on your business, potential benefits of culture, and I share my definition of culture: A shared set of workplace beliefs, values, attitudes, standards, purpose and behaviors. Think of it as a brand's personality: It encompasses how employees interact with each other, with customers, an…
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Send us a text In case you didn’t know, June is National Employee Wellness Month. June is about ensuring that we are taking a holistic approach to our wellness. This episode shares some statistics around mental wellbeing in the workplace and a conversation with a leader in the mental wellbeing and resilience space. Having managers who are trained t…
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Send us a text I am so excited to share the new format of my weekly podcast. Formerly Authentic Energy, now The Culture Coach Podcast This podcast is evolving from helping individuals find their "Authentic Energy" to helping leaders build a culture that they can be proud of. "The Culture Coach" reflects the mission of WMB Coaching and Consulting, w…
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Send us a text Welcome to The Culture Coach Podcast! Whether you’re a CEO of a small business or non-profit, a CHRO or simply a people-first-leader determined to make a difference in your company, this podcast is your resource for creating a culture where your employees can thrive. I’m Wendy Brand, Your Culture Coach, dedicated to supporting people…
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Send us a text My guest today is Josefine Campbell, an author and executive coach who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Josefine draws on her academic expertise, 25+ years of professional experience, and her martial arts background in jiu-jitsu, where she practiced to focus on thriving in unpredictable situations and was a four-time Danish Champion. Jo…
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Send us a text In this episode, I’ll share the components that make up emotional intelligence. But it’s one thing to learn about emotional intelligence, and it’s whole other thing to take the time to become aware of what impacts and elevates your emotional intelligence. I’ll give you a hint, it takes self-awareness! EQ is broken into five categorie…
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Send us a text Inspiring Communication: Be Clear and Concise, practice active listening and be aware of your energy. How you show up comes across in your communication. Communication can take many forms: a casual conversation with a colleague, a strategic planning session with the team, a presentation to the board, or emails back and forth with cli…
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Send us a text So, how can we bring emotions into the conversation in a meaningful way. Don’t confuse being emotional with expressing emotions clearly. Here are three things that you can do in the work environment when you are faced with emotions. Step 1: Acknowledge the Emotion: Take a step back and acknowledge your emotion. What emotion are you e…
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Send us a text Erik Darmstetter is a business growth expert who has founded and led several businesses of his own and helped other organizations dramatically increase sales for companies and organizations of every size. Today, Erik is the CEO of Office Furniture Liquidations of San Antonio approaching 10 years in business and recently winning #1 Fu…
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Send us a text Ever felt the sting of being bypassed for a promotion, or trapped in a cycle of negative energy at work? I've been there, but in this episode, we're discovering the perception that leads to a profound shift in energy and perspective. I'm diving into the brain's inner mechanics, showing how the reticular activating system, amygdala, a…
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Send us a text Download your FREE Workbook to take notes and follow along HERE. Today, I’ll walk you through a change framework that a colleague and now very dear friend of mine, Deanna Rutland, and I created about 6 years ago. We created this framework for the Tech company that we worked for at the time and rolled it out to the organization with s…
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Send us a text These Tuesday episodes are designed to give you insights that can help you navigate your week at work, at home or wherever it is you spend your time. Daily we are faced with stressors. Things that detract from our energy. Things that distract us from becoming the best version of ourselves. My hope is that these episodes will help you…
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Send us a text This episode features a conversation on Inclusivity, the "I" in my THRIVE Culture framework that I use to work with non-profit and small business CEOs to create an environment where their employees can thrive. My guest today is an author, podcast host, and CEO, dedicated to shining a light on DEI through various mediums. Bernadette S…
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Send us a text Welcome to our first Transformation Tuesday! These Tuesday episodes are designed to address the things you can control. In a world where we are overworked, have higher levels of anxiety, depression, you get the drill, these episodes are bringing you nuggets to help you tap into your own energy. Becoming aware of where you may have en…
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Send us a text In this episode I share some behind the scenes things happening with my personal and professional mission AND some changes to the Podcast format. I am also excited to share a very important framework with you in this episode. It is the foundation for the consulting work that I am doing on culture and organizational health. A THRIVE C…
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Send us a text HERE is the link to the article I referenced from the National Library of Medicine and the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine making the connection between food and burnout. My guest today is Michelle Adams. Michelle is a former medical litigator and food entrepreneur, who now shares her stories, recipes and passion for intention…
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Send us a text Over the last 30+ years, few of San Antonio’s most prestigious and substantial projects and events have not been touched by the expert hand of Janet Holliday. Janet embodies a rare combination of strategic vision, entrepreneurial spirit, tremendous leadership skills, and the “can-do” attitude that it takes to plan, position, promote …
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Send us a text My guest this week is Marquis Murray. Marquis is a Business Process Consultant on a mission to eliminate team burnout and to empower teams so they can focus on the work without the issue of not knowing where or how the work is happening. With over 15 years of experience Marquis has gained extensive expertise in improving processes an…
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Send us a text Welcome back! I am Wendy Brand your host and creator of the Authentic Podcast and we have such a sweet conversation today that I think you will enjoy. Prior to starting her own business, Marybeth Gregg had a wonderfully successful career — first as a Human Resources (HR) executive with international consumer products, luxury goods, r…
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Send us a text I am so excited to share this episode with you today. I could not have asked for a better guest to kick off Authentic Energy’s 2024 Season! The conversation is amazing and the work that my guest is doing is so aligned with my mission that I was just hanging on his every word in agreement and acknowledgment. T. Mark Meyer is a psychot…
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Send us a text Welcome back to the Authentic Energy podcast! I am your host Wendy Brand and I am feeling extra grateful and reflective as we reach the end of 2023. I am extremely grateful to those of you who have taken the time to listen to every episode this year and to those of you who have tuned in for specific episodes. I am EXTREMELY excited f…
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Send us a text THIS EPISODE: If you’ve been listening you know that this is episode 2 of 3 from our Let’s GOal workshop that my colleague Jeshanna Forrister and I facilitated a few weeks ago. Last week I shared clips from the Values work that we did in the workshop to lay the foundation and ensure that once you create your vision and goals, they ar…
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Send us a text For those of you who have been listening or following me on social media, you are aware that my colleague Jeshanna Forrister and I hosted our Let’s Goal workshops last week for two different audiences! And, because the feedback that we have received from the participants was so positive and they shared that it caused them to think a …
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Send us a text Caroline Pennington is a seasoned Executive Recruiter bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. She is passionate about connecting talented individuals with top-tier organizations and thrives on finding the perfect match. Caroline has partnered with companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 and in all t…
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Send us a text My guest today is Michele Thomson. Michele is a registered nurse turned leadership development coach and consultant who has worked in healthcare for more than 25 years before becoming an entrepreneur. Michele helps organizations avoid crisis leadership and transforms workplaces using the basis of psychological safety. She helps leade…
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Send us a text I love planning for the new year!! And, this year, I am partnering with one of my new friends, to share our framework for planning to experience the most amazing year. Jeshanna Forrester is my guest today and she is an amazing human who has experienced so much in her life and has now turned to helping others transition through diffic…
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Send us a text This episode wraps up the Sow Series with the final step in our change process to make the decision to become who you want to be. We first looked at the awareness of change in our Seeds Series, then as we entered the Sow Series we found our desire to change by looking at opportunities and risks, then focused on our Knowledge and Abil…
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Send us a text This episode is 4 of 6 in our Sow Series taking us to the next step in our change curve. We first looked at the awareness of change in our Seeds Series, then as we entered the Sow Series we found our desire to change by looking at opportunities and risks. Now we focus on our Knowledge and Ability and articulating our uniqueness. I ho…
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Send us a text We are back for another episode in the Sow Series with Whitney Kinservik and I. Today we are talking about Opportunity. I think this episode provides a pretty good recap of where we are in the series so I won’t be redundant and rehash that here. If you are just joining us in the Sow series you may want to go back and listen to the fi…
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Send us a text Last week Whitney and I talked about having the desire to change. And, we assigned some homework. Hopefully, you’ve thought about what change you want to make and you tried it on for size…asking yourself “What IF”…what would it look like if I made this change? This week, Whitney Kinservik and I tackled our second episode in the SOW s…
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Send us a text This is a sequel to the Seeds Series with Whitney Kinservek and I. Through this series, we are first going to Identify the seeds of change, and really understand what it means to have the desire to change. That is the intent of this first episode. Then we’ll seek to understand the landscape by assessing risk, next, we’ll select a loc…
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Send us a text Welcome to Season 2! If you are feeling overwhelmed at work, at home, in relationships, start with understanding those thoughts that sabotage you and the core values that are at the root of what brings you joy and passion. These are the first steps of awareness and uncovering your authentic energy. I encourage you to complete a value…
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Send us a text Today my guest is Dr. Marie-Hélène (MH) Pelletier. MH is an in-demand speaker who applies business and clinical expertise for leaders and professionals to build unshakable resilience in the workplace. She has her first book coming out in February titled, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance an…
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Send us a text Anna K Morris spent her 20’s in NYC living an enviable life. She had a great sales job, an expense account, a refined boyfriend. She traveled. And, had all the things that were supposed to make her happy. But, they didn’t. Much like I have spent the last year reconciling decades of time spent working toward something only to find onc…
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Send us a text My very special guest today is Brenda Harrington. Brenda is a certified Executive Coach, author, and facilitator of leadership development experiences. She works with leaders across a variety of business sectors, non-profit, government, and intergovernmental organizations to help them enhance their leadership competencies and build c…
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Send us a text Today’s episode is a recap of the Seeds series. We talk briefly about some of the learnings we shared along the way, but then we talk about what to do with those learnings. And, finally, Whitney and I decided that it might be helpful to share information about what a coach is, what it isn’t, what to expect and what it could cost. Her…
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