How do we accept evolution and become skillful at leveraging perpetually shifting realities? What is 'Walk Away Power,' and why does it make perfect sense to talk about Chappell Roan at the Grammy Awards on The Behaviorist? Join Jaime Arroyo, Dylan, and Kedren as they reflect, explore, and develop dynamic methods and mindsets for adapting as individuals and organizations. Hear Jaime discuss how a winning modern 'game plan' actually requires that we skillfully improvise 'play by play.' Listen alo...
Apr 01, 2025•32 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as Mike McKenna talks with Clarke Madden from the PA Office of the State Inspector General about the way a strategy screen is just the right tool to strengthen your decision-making in your work, and even in your personal life! To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram (@workwisdom). *Views expressed by guests are their own, and no endorsement of any good or service is expressed or implied....
Mar 15, 2025•44 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Five years after Kedren interviewed Fearless Leaders Jess King and Sam Bressi in an article on WW Press, she meets up with them again to explore what additional wisdom they’ve gleaned through the past challenging years to help leaders now. Join the three leaders in discussing the necessity of building values-aligned teams, quantifying your fears, habituating renewal, reframing uncertainty, dropping the need for credit, and even forgiving in order to sustain fearless leadership for the long game....
Feb 26, 2025•48 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast Work Wisdom's 2017 office was our first foray into Work Wisdom Design, where every detail of space: light, furniture, color, and fabric, was used to cultivate an aspired identity and culture. Join Kedren Crosby and Christy Slothower in a conversation about intentionally using design to create the best future for your teams and your company. In this episode, Kedren and Christy share their motivation, methods, and aspirations of Work Wisdom Design. The conversation is driven by the words of Peter ...
Dec 16, 2024•21 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Join us for a powerful conversation as Ryan Berardi sits down with Dr. Taylor Alouisa and Dr. Alex Rohrer to explore the essential role of “trust density” in fostering impactful work. Discover practical insights on building and maintaining “trust hygiene” in the face of pivotal, complex challenges that not only affect trust today but shape the foundation for stronger relationships tomorrow. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of trust in transformative ways! To learn more ab...
Nov 20, 2024•33 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast What really drives a leadership team to greatness? Hint: it’s *not* about everyone being a superstar. Join Sarah, Dylan, and Kedren as they dive into the essential ingredients that make executive teams excel. Discover the surprising qualities that elevate team performance and how balancing the paradox of leadership is key to sustained success. Ready to rethink what it takes to lead? Don't miss this insightful conversation To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.co...
Nov 04, 2024•42 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast The Work Wisdom team invites you to join us for our second installment of our series on Curiosity as we explore what behaviors you can adopt that enhance your ability to learn and grow. We will also explore some behaviors and mindsets that may interfere with your curiosity and block you from engaging with information in ways that are ripe for learning To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Asking questions that help us more deeply and richly connect can be harder than it seems. Join us in our series on the benefits of cultivating curiosity as we explore the art of asking questions with Dr. Scott Waltman To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram (@workwisdom).
Sep 11, 2024•46 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast In a world where we sense so much division, could listening be the superpower we didn’t know we needed? Join us as Mike McKenna talks with Tracy Cutler about concrete ways to truly listen deeply and connect more meaningfully across the many forms of differences in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and social lives. “Listening Across the Divide” will help you understand others even when you don’t or can’t agree. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow u...
Aug 28, 2024•50 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast What is the most hard-won, unglamorous, yet high-performance skill in leadership? It may be one that is almost never discussed: killing your darlings. How do we recalibrate our bias towards adding? How do we accept, normalize and even grieve when it is time to let go of a beloved offering, product, department for the long-term health of the organization? What role does confidence play in creating elegant and enduring companies? How does 'killing your darlings' enable us to optimally direct the e...
Aug 14, 2024•35 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast Intuition is simply knowing without fully knowing how you know. We benefit from accessing ALL of our knowledge (both cognitive and intuitive), yet some of us have been encouraged to undervalue our intuitive knowledge. Join Kedren and Sarah to learn about the four types of intuition (Expert, Creative, Relational, and Temporal) as well as Kedren's top ten favorite techniques for developing your own intuitive skills so that you have more fruitful and joyful work lives. You already have this intuiti...
Jul 25, 2024•24 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Inspired by the leadership book Extreme Ownership, Sarah *convinced* Nate Shea from SecureStrux to return to the podcast and dig into what Owning It means on our teams. “What’s rewarded is repeated.” In a recent March 2024 article by Zenger and Folkman, the research about the culture of empowered teams shows that if we want high engagement and productivity, we need to set the tone and help our teams by trusting them, encouraging them, and letting mistakes be opportunities to grow. It requires a ...
May 08, 2024•35 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Join Ryan Berardi, Mike Mason, and Kedren as they explore recent research documenting the shifts in what we truly want and expect from our leaders. The necessary and elusive role of 'Executive Presence' is evolving in significant and even some encouraging ways. What makes a leader now? What skills should we hone to be a modern leader? Listen in to learn about both the changing and evergreen facets of leadership gravitas, communication skills, and the 'right' appearance. To learn more about Work ...
Apr 25, 2024•54 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast This week on The Behaviorist, join Sarah and Kedren for an impromptu discussion on how to build one's confidence. During this episode, you'll learn what mindsets, behaviors and habits foster sustained, enhanced self-regard. Explore Work Wisdom's experience about the facets and building blocks of MODERN confidence, which include humility, polish and deep listening. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Apr 17, 2024•24 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as Janine talks with Liz Orr, creator of the Rude Ass Enneagram, about the best way to discern your number, Liz's process of writing her new book “The Unfiltered Enneagram, A Witty And Wise Guide to Self Compassion,” and how to recognize the negative patterns of your number and move toward Badass Pattern Breaking You can follow Liz on Instagram @rudeassenneagram and visit her website www.rudeassenneagram.com to preorder her book and get a personalized snarky message according to your enn...
Apr 04, 2024•36 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast We certainly needed to hear this right now, and we hope it’s perfect timing for you, too. This is possibly the most countercultural business podcast ever recorded. What would our workplaces be like if we learned to love uncertainty? How do we double down on our inputs, our habits, our practices and let go of trying to predict the future? Why is our intolerance of uncertainty growing? How do we actually grow if we don’t expose ourselves to uncertainty? Read this article for more context on this e...
Mar 06, 2024•39 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as Sarah talks with Alisa and Alex about three key ways of maximizing potential. If you’re interested in unlocking your potential or, as a leader, unlocking your team's potential, the following episode might interest you. We’re not getting anywhere fast sitting in Zoom meetings in our pajamas. How can we level up and get that boost of energy and performance that makes life exciting and worth getting up and dressed in the morning?! Tune in and find out. To learn more about Work Wisdom, vi...
Feb 07, 2024•47 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as Work Wisdom’s Real-Time strategy associate, Mike McKenna talks with Work Wisdom Founder Kedren Crosby and Vanessa Philbert, CEO of Community Action Partnership, about lessons in growth mindset from one of Hollywood’s culinary anti-heros. Follow along as we slice and dice the journey of Cousin Richie from Hulu’s hit The Bear. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Jan 31, 2024•50 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast We received too many requests for this content to wait until we could get into the studio. Are you burning out, or have you lost your spark? If you’re trying to find your vibrancy, listen to Kedren as she shares her top twenty favorite ways to sustainably revive and renew in times of uncertainty or unprecedented stress. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Jan 18, 2024•33 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Join some Work Wisdom leaders to reflect on Adam Bryant’s new work on Leap to Leader. Adam Bryant has found that there are SIX focus areas when growing. 1. What do you stand for? Your values? 2. Hone your decision-making. 3. Setting the bar at the right level. 4. Compartmentalization 5. Self-awareness 6. Know and own your own story. Sit back and listen as Sarah, Janine, Kedren, and Matt discuss Freud, ponies, Taking the B, NOT oversharing, the Authenticity Paradox, when to recognize that you ARE...
Jan 02, 2024•30 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast We need entrepreneurs everywhere. They’re gritty, they take risks, they inspire us and they solve problems. Join us as we dive into the ingredients of an entrepreneurial mindset with three entrepreneurs: Deb, Nate and Andy. Find out what has inspired these leaders to do what they do despite the challenges and how their entrepreneurial mindset has influenced their leadership style. They just might inspire you to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset yourself! To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our...
Dec 19, 2023•37 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Employee happiness has been in steady decline since 2020. In an article in Fast Company earlier this week, CEO and author Jenn Lim asked, “Why are employees so glum? They’re no longer riding the ‘highs and lows’ of their roles but instead shifted to ‘resignation and apathy’” writes Lim. “The true problem with employee engagement isn’t a lack of motivation but a disconnect between the employee and the organization’s purpose.” Disengaged teams cost the global economy $8.8 trillion annually, but a ...
Dec 06, 2023•36 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast Join us as Work Wisdom’s Real-Time strategy associate, Mike McKenna talks with Atomic Design’s CBDO, Joey McMonagle about lessons of fatherhood that can strengthen your workplace leadership and help with effective, compassionate parenting, too. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Oct 18, 2023•31 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Self-less leadership is bad for everyone.” Join us as Sarah talks with Kedren about the impact of self-less leadership on leaders and teams and the sustainable ways leaders can empower and invest in team members without burning out. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram (@workwisdom). The closing song is "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths....
Oct 04, 2023•27 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast It's crucial for leaders to become competent in guiding their teams through transitions. In this episode of The Behaviorist, Kedren Crosby shares evidence-based insights for leaders to effectively navigate the different stages of transition. A significant takeaway from this conversation? Embrace the fact that 'uncertainty is the only certainty'. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Jul 31, 2023•24 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Join us this week as Vanessa and Kedren explore Organizational Burnout. We can’t yoga and meditate our way out of an epidemic of burnout, but we can reframe the problem, lead courageously, and apply systems-wide interventions. Listen in to learn about the mindsets, habits, and guardrails your organization can adopt to shield your teams from burnout. To learn more about Work Wisdom, visit our website at www.workwisdomllc.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram (@workwisdom)....
Jul 12, 2023•46 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast Join Kedren and Sarah on this episode of The Behaviorist as they delve into the pressing importance of trust in these times of uncertainty. With the pandemic and remote work, coupled with the phenomenon of the great resignation, the overwhelming presence of over-employment, and a sea of Instagram posts playfully mocking the predicament of being at Target while the boss is calling, It is abundantly clear that what we truly need is a remedy for the trust deficiency that exists. This is particularl...
Jun 28, 2023•33 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast From The Great Resignation to The Great Regret, leaders and teams have experienced epic challenges in recruiting, retaining, and engaging talent over the past three years. Join Kedren and Sophie Nicholas, a recruiter at Siemens, as they discuss concrete, strategic, modern, and inclusive methods for attracting and empowering new talent to your team. Tune in to learn Sophie’s tactics for deploying inclusive recruitment, leveraging smart technology, and shaping culture to win the long game. To lear...
Mar 29, 2023•29 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast What is the difference between perfectionism and excellence? Maybe you’ve heard the line, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Perfect is an ideal that is, by definition, unattainable. Many of us strive for a high standard beyond merely “good.” On today’s podcast, tune in to hear Mike, Vanessa, and Sara clarify key differences between the pursuit of perfection and the pursuit of excellence AND share concrete practices to meet high standards without the baggage. To learn more about W...
Mar 08, 2023•34 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast If you’re wondering how an article on project management could possibly be inspiring, tune into the latest episode of The Behaviorist to hear Work Wisdom’s founders, Kedren Crosby and Sarah Colantonio discuss how the architect Frank Gehry epitomizes creativity and innovation in surprising ways. While we might assume creative and innovative organizations are throwing paint at walls and having pizza parties, the recipe for sustained innovation is unexpected and paradoxical. Listen to find out how ...
Mar 01, 2023•32 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast 
