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Human Factor Podcast Season 3 Episode 037: Measuring What Change Feels Like – The Joyful Change Quotient and the Signals Leaders Miss (Part 1)

Season 3, Episode 037 (Part 1 of 2) Measuring What Change Feels Like – The Joyful Change Quotient and the Signals Leaders Miss (Part 1) With Dr. Michelle Pipes, Creator of Joyful Change and Author of Stewarding Joyful Change Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Dr. Michelle Pipes Duration: 82 minutes Available: October 15, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 37 (Part 1) Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and…

Human Factor Podcast Season 3 Episode 036: The Misread – Why Structural Friction Gets Read As Individual Resistance

Season 3, Episode 036 The Misread – Why Structural Friction Gets Read As Individual Resistance With Jenny Vazquez-Newsum, Founder and CEO of Untapped Leaders and Author of Untapped Leadership Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Jenny Vazquez-Newsum Duration: 61 minutes Available: October 8, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 36 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview The Misread – Why…

The Misread – Why Structural Friction Gets Read as Individual Resistance

The Misread Why Structural Friction Gets Read as Individual Resistance Issue 285, October 8, 2026 Somewhere in your organization right now there is an initiative that isn’t landing. Adoption is thinner than the plan said it would be. The middle of the building has gone quiet. The people you were counting on are asking a lot of procedural questions and almost no enthusiastic ones. So a meeting gets called, and somewhere in that meeting somebody says the word. Resistance. Or…

The Disappearing Middle – What Happens When We Automate the Work That Taught People How to Think

The Disappearing Middle What Happens When We Automate the Work That Taught People How to Think Issue 284, October 1, 2026 Most of the talk about AI and jobs is about numbers. How many jobs go away, in which fields, and how fast. Those are fair questions, but they are questions about the immediate and near future. The one I keep pondering doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. What happens five years from now, ten years from now, when…

Human Factor Podcast Season 3 Episode 035: The Missing Half of Change Management – Why Transformation Has a Model for Everything Except the Person Inside It

Season 3, Episode 035 The Missing Half of Change Management – Why Transformation Has a Model for Everything Except the Person Inside It With Dr Grant Van Ulbrich, Creator of Scared So What and Founder of The PCM Company Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Dr Grant Van Ulbrich Duration: 65 minutes Available: October 1, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 35 Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via…

Human Factor Podcast Season 3 Episode 034: On Scope, On Schedule, Off Purpose – Why Following the Plan Is Not the Same as Realizing the Purpose

Season 3, Episode 034 On Scope, On Schedule, Off Purpose – Why Following the Plan Is Not the Same as Realizing the Purpose With Tina Berger, Digital Transformation Advisor and Author of Invest Like a Mother Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Tina Berger Duration: 72 minutes Available: September 24, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 34  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript…

Receptacle or Receptor? – What a Podcast Guest Said About Customers, and Why It Applies to Everyone an Organization Touches

Receptacle or Receptor? What a Podcast Guest Said About Customers, and Why It Applies to Everyone an Organization Touches Issue 283, September 24, 2026 Somewhere in the middle of my conversation with David Edward for this season of The Human Factor Podcast, he said something I told him on the spot I would steal. He was describing a manufacturing client whose leadership had spent years perfecting the production side of the business, making it faster, cheaper and more measurable, while…

Human Factor Podcast Season 3 Episode 033: Performance Is Lost Before Execution – Why the Conditions Around the Work Decide What Capability Converts

Season 3, Episode 033 Performance Is Lost Before Execution – Why the Conditions Around the Work Decide What Capability Converts With David Edward, Founder and Chief Strategist, Strategic Initiatives Group Host: Kevin Novak Guest: David Edward Duration: 60 minutes Available: September 17, 2026 🎙️Season 3, Episode 33  Episodes are available in both video and audio formats across all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, and via RSS, among others. Transcript Available Below Episode Overview Performance Is…

The Same Hole, Dug Faster – Lateral Thinking, an Unpaid Invoice, and What Is Still Worth Paying For

The Same Hole, Dug Faster Lateral Thinking, an Unpaid Invoice, and What Is Still Worth Paying For Issue 282, September 17, 2026 Sarah Tucker is the author of Edward de Bono: Love Laterally, a biography of the man who gave us the phrase lateral thinking, and this past weekend the Wall Street Journal ran a short piece of hers under the headline The Cost of Thinking for Free. She had been invited to speak to about thirty senior people in…