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CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
In just five minutes a day, Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Strategy Officer of Workforce and Labor for Culture Partners, unpacks the latest research, trends and strategies shaping workplace culture, and driving business results. CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel is a 5-minute daily podcast where business pragmatism meets inner wisdom.
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- CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel
Accenture’s Karalee Close on Change Management, Responsible AI, and Harnessing Technology for Human Potential
Karalee Close, Accenture’s Global Lead for the Talent & Organization practice joins Jessica to talk about all things artificial intelligence; starting with her…
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Co-Learning with AI
In today's episode: With new technology that learns alongside humans, change management is no longer static; it's about continuous learning. Ina co-learning…
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Highlight: Culture and the "Smell of the Place"
In today's clip from one of Jessica's keynotes: Back to basics: what exactly is culture? It isn't ping-pong tables or corporate retreats. Professor Sumantra…
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Highlight: The Seed Model for a Company Strategy
In today's clip from one of Jessica's keynotes: People want to understand their company's purpose, values, and goals. The Seed Model provides a cohesive…
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Highlight: How Oracle Culture-Shifted to a Cloud Company
In today's clip from a Q&A at one of Jessica's keynotes: Culture change was key to Oracle's successful shift to the cloud in the 2010s. Shawn Price found the…
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The Impacts of Low Consumer Confidence - Jessica on Schwab Network
In today's episode from Schwab Network: Whether you agree with the Trump administration's actions on tariffs and spending, it creates uncertainty across all…
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Highlight: Aligning Priorities Across Teams
In today's clip from a Q&A at one of Jessica's keynotes: Within a company, how can one team convince another to offer help and realign their priorities? The…
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Shifting a Company's Focus
In today's episode: Aviatrix's Doug Merritt explains how he successfully transitioned a software company to the cloud--a process which had huge impacts on its…
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Building a Feedback-Focused Culture
In today's episode: Aviatrix's Doug Merritt wants to build cultures around daily learning and consistent feedback. In a culture that prioritizes that kind of…
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The Long-Term Impacts of DOGE - Jessica on Bloomberg Radio
In today's episode from Bloomberg Radio: Government jobs used to be a safe, reliable bet--but that's not the case any longer. To survive in the new…
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There Is No Failure
In today's episode: Aviatrix's Doug Merritt says there is no failure--just feedback that leads to improvement. When we over-focus on binary successes and…
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Aviatrix's Doug Merritt on Daily Effort, Long-Term Thinking, and Learning from Failure
Doug Merritt, Chairman, CEO, and President of Aviatrix, joins Jessica to discuss his process-centered philosophy in life and business, which focuses on daily…
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What Inflation Means For Leaders
In today's episode: The latest inflation numbers are bad news; things are getting more expensive, and there's no immediate relief in sight. That means rising…
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What's Going On With Federal Workers?
In today's episode: We've seen the upheavals for federal workers in the last few weeks, including the "fork in the road" email offering a buyout. Anecdotally…
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We Can Change Who We Are
In today's episode: Whatever we do regularly, our brains get better at. That includes things like anxiety, avoidance, and pessimism--but also mindsets of…
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A Shift In Tone on AI Policy
In today's episode: From the AI Action Summit in Paris, it's clear that governments are moving from Fear to FOMO when it comes to AI. Leaders are now…
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Jessica on Merit TV: Determining The Next AI Superpower
In today's episode from Merit Street: It's still not clear who will be the AI superpower in the future, but the US is certainly in the running. The winners of…
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Adapting Culture for AI
In today's episode: Leaders are good at setting goals, but companies need employee buy-in at a fundamental culture level in order to make big changes, like…
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What the State of the Nation Report Means for CEOs
In today's episode: The bipartisan State of the Nation Report reveals that America is wealthy, but unhappy. We're doing great in terms of productivity and…
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Great Culture Can Save An Ugly Mission
In today's episode: Jessica recently spoke at a company that has a pretty non-inspirational mission. But employees across the board raved about the company…
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More Tech Layoffs
In today's episode: Workday has another announcement: a big layoff is coming. This as the company is reported to have exceeded its Q4 forecast. These employees…
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Turning Outrage Into Accountability
In today's episode: Across the political spectrum, people are outraged. To be effective, outrage needs to be channeled into accountability. The four steps to…
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1-800-FLOWERS' Jim McCann on Community Connections, Investing in Employees, and the Future of Work
Jim McCann, Founder and CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS, shares his story as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and thought leader who turned a single flower shop into a…
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What Microsoft Taught Jim McCann About AI
In today's episode: Just like some companies were born digital-native, there will be companies that are born AI-native. Older companies need to do the legwork…
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Keynote: Adaptive Mindsets and Long-Term Results
In today's episode: Beliefs lead to actions, which produce results. Skip the "action trap" and focus on getting teams into an adaptive mindset, rather than…
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Fear Versus Faith
In today's episode: Fear is having faith in something you don't want to happen. Beliefs drive actions, which create results. A mindset based in fear-based…
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AI and Workforce Management
In today's episode: The CEO of Workday says AI agents will soon be built into their technology. When Sarah Franklin of Lattice said this six months ago, there…
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Turning Values Into Culture
In today's episode: A company has only two options: culture or control. Smaller, in-person companies can get away with culture and values being shared by…
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Shared Purpose Builds Resilience
In today's episode: Diverse skillsets united behind a shared mission can be a powerful force for success. For Thrive Market's founders, that shared purpose…
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Remote Work and Surviving AI Job Cuts - Jessica on Studio Sacramento
In today's episode from Jessica's appearance on Studio Sacramento: Return-to-office mandates are largely caused by employers who want to manage activity, not…
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The Post-Election Bounce
In today's episode: A lot of companies had record-breaking December numbers, now that the election uncertainty is finally over. Since economic policy take…
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Attracting Talent That Fits the Mission
In today's episode: Employees that believe in a company's mission will go the extra mile. Many applicants--especially younger ones--self-select for companies…
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Layoffs and Employee Loyalty - Jessica on Studio Sacramento
In today's episode from Jessica's appearance on Studio Sacramento: Jessica doesn't want "loyal" employees. She wants employees who are excited about the work…
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Thrive Market's Nick Green on Long-Term Thinking, Healthy Living, and Building a Mission-Driven Business
Nick Green, Co-Founder and CEO of Thrive Market, shares how the drive to make healthier eating more accessible has shaped the company from the very beginning…
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Building Mission Into the Business
In today's episode: In asking how to balance mission with profits, avoid a binary "yes" or "no." What can be done now? What can be achieved a few years down…
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Start With Results. Don't End With Them
In today's episode: Start with results by making a plan. Choose goals that are meaningful, measurable, and memorable. But we can only control the effort we put…
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What the Relationship Recession Means for Business
In today's episode, Jessica discusses John Burn-Murdoch's story in the Financial Times: The relationship recession is going global It's not just declining…
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Maintaining Core Values in Business
In today's episode: Profit can be combined with purpose. Cisco's Guy Diedrich holds to the phrase, "If we do good, we'll do well." When an outside event…
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Why People Suck at Power
In today's episode: Power changes people; it reinforces worth and self-esteem, but most people in corporate jobs begin to identify with the power of their…
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When Companies Silence Complaints
In today's episode: Angry workers are taking their complaints to company website comment sections. Some companies are responding by shutting down the comments…
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Jessica on Schwab Network: The December Jobs Report
In today's episode from Schwab Network: The above-average December jobs report is a direct reaction to the election. Uncertainty was bad for business. We know…
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Succeeding with Cultures Across the World
In today's episode: To succeed in working with different cultures, you have to leave opinions and politics at the door. But nearly everybody wants to move in…
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The Double-Edged Sword of Rising Productivity
In today's episode: There's been a 2% increase in workforce productivity, which businesses are celebrating. We're going to see that number continue to rise…
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Mark Zuckerberg Joins Jessica and John To Talk Truth in Journalism
In today's episode: No, Mark Zuckerberg isn't joining the show--but he's removing fact-checking from Facebook. Over time, news has gotten less and less…
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Cisco's Guy Diedrich on Shared Vulnerability, Core Values, and Connecting the World
Dr. Guy Diedrich, Senior Vice President and the Global Innovation Officer at Cisco, shares his story as a key player in global digitization and the future of…
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Shared Vulnerability Builds Trust
In today's episode: Trust is "the lubricant of efficient markets." It allows businesses to work together quickly without constantly watching their own backs…
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Keynote: The Truth About Generational Dynamics In The Worklace
In today's episode: Most generational dynamics are stereotypes, not hard science. No generation has a monopoly on any trait. Our pre-existing beliefs shape our…
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Jessica on Merit TV: Adapting to AI in the Workforce
In today's episode from Merit Street: The next wave of AI--agentic AI--is going to cause job losses, at least in the short term. Adapting to an AI-focused…
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Jessica on NewsNation: California Removes Degree Requirement for 30k Jobs
In today's episode from Jessica's appearance on NBC: California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the state is removing the college degree requirement for…
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Childcare And Supporting Single Parents
In today's episode: Rising childcare costs have a huge impact on single parents in the workforce (80% of whom are women). They're forced to be less flexible in…
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Yelp's Remote-First Strategy
In today's episode: After the pandemic hit, 87% of Yelp's employees said they preferred working at home. When offices opened, they were less than 1% occupied…
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Jessica on NBC: Addressing The Growing Gender Wage Gap
In today's episode from Jessica's appearance on NBC: The gender wage gap is expanding. That's partly due to discrimination, and partly due to the price of…
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Yelp's Carmen Amara on Empathy in Leadership and the Future of Remote Work
Carmen Amara, Chief People Officer at Yelp, shares her journey into HR, emphasizing the importance of finding purpose in work and creating a people-first…
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How Do The Drones Impact Workplace Culture?
In today's episode: The world is getting less stable, between wars abroad, the possibilities of tariffs at home, and weird stuff like the drones. World events…
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Keynote: Meaning, Adaptability, and Alignment
In today's episode: Change can seem hard, but it can also provide purpose--and that purpose can make the process fun. The science shows that an adaptive…
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More 2025 Workplace Trends To Watch
In today's episode, some more key workplace trends to watch for 2025, featuring Peter Miscovich at JLL: Digital talent, magnetism and workforce upskilling. The…
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A Career's Growth Cycles
In today's episode: Steve Pruett identifies "growth cycles" in his career--periods that encompass a structure of "Go, Assess, Identify, and Next" In the Go…
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The Power of Data-Integrating Systems
In today's episode: In the era of Big Data, large companies often have a variety of technology systems and data sets that can't speak with each other directly…
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Jessica on NBC News NOW: Women, Stress, and the Workplace
In today's episode from Jessica's appearance on NBC: A new Gallup poll shows half of working women report being stressed a lot of the day, compared to 39% of…
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Jessica on NBC: Explaining The Great Detachment
In today's episode from Jessica's appearance on NBC: Employees are feeling detached from their work at all levels, from the frontline to executive leadership…