Gas Glue Guardrails. The Culture, Leadership and Careers Show with Pete Havel

Daren Martin, Ph.D,  is called "The Culture Architect" for a reason--he works with organizations worldwide to build better cultures. A Wall St. Journal and USA Today bestselling author, speaker, and consultant, Martin's most recent high-profile books include A Company of Owners: Maximizing Employee Engagement and Architecting A Company of Owners.

On this show, Pete Havel and Dr. Martin talk about transformin...

Your manager and HR just blindsided you with an unfair and ridiculous Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and wondering if you have any options. Or you've been fired for dubious reasons, but you've always been told that, as an at-will employee, you can be fired for any reason and simply have to accept it. Pete Havel talks with employment lawyer Peter Whelan, Founding Partner at District Employment Law, about how you can ma...

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Ray Green, President & CEO of RJG & Co., went from being a serial entrepreneur to managing director of America's largest business advocacy organization, to a CEO who faced the toughest issues a leader can, to becoming a solopreneur impacting sales organizations across the globe.

Hear Pete Havel and Ray discuss hot topics, including:

• what it took to change a culture
• the phenomena of problem employee...

What's the one thing that can solve the generational and expectations divide in the workplace?

If you're in your late 40s, is it time to start looking over your shoulder at work?

If you're in your 50s, are you wondering if your company is going to put a "hit" out on you and your career for the crime of earning a great salary and maybe getting a little gray hair? And are there things you ca...

Lisa Bowman served as a top executive for the United Way, a nonprofit known for caring for others. A hotbed of harassment, Bowman endured abusive sexual harassment from a colleague for a while, but eventually spoke up. And when she did, she saw her department budget slashed, colleagues around her targeted, and was eventually fired by a CEO who later walked away with millions in donor donations.

She went to the United Way&a...

Chris York is the author of Set the Standard: Antidote to Average and is one of the top CEOs in healthcare when it comes to building a successful, productive team.  Hear his secrets for setting the tone, succeeding when you're the new leader,  building credibility with a team, taking on bad behavior, creating buy-in, balancing the big egos with the big picture, building trust, and much more. No matter what business you're...

Hold onto your seat! Imagine getting your dream job--the one you've spent your life planning for--and realize that you're facing the mindblowing decision of "Do I keep doing exactly what I'm doing and risk treason charges?" or "Do I trust my conscience and implode my career? 

That was the impossible and--for a person of integrity and conscience-- yet easy decision that faced attorney Ashley Y...

Do you trust your company to conduct fair and smart workplace complaint investigations? That answer may be no-- no matter whether you're the CEO or it's your first day on the job.  Or whether you're the accuser or the accused. On this episode, Pete Havel will talk with Jared Pope about Work Shield, the company he founded that provides the only full-service solution that partners with organizations to efficiently mana...

When you're a submarine officer like Jon Rennie was, you quickly learn that there's nowhere to hide if a leadership or productivity challenge exists--you have to deal with it or risk the consequences of it. He's taken the lessons learned on the nuclear sub U.S.S. Tennessee and those he's learned as the Founder and CEO of a leading manufacturing company to helps companies, students and employees learn one basic i...

Mark Crowley had an early life that no child should ever face, but has turned those dark moments into a leadership philosophy that made him one of the highest- performing team leaders in the entire Financial Services sector and now is a bestselling author, sought-after speaker,  His book Lead from the Heart: Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century is a deep dive into what leading from the heart looks like--it's relati...

Hear an amazing story of a powerful person who lost that power and prestige in the drop of an envelope. Poncho Nevarez was an influential, political rising star until his career ended in a life-changing destructive moment that he now calls one of the best moments of his life. He was caught up in the power and  loved the political game,  but it consumed him. To look for an edge and to cope with the battles, he became an addict. And ...