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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…

Human Factor Podcast Season 3 Episode 032: The Measurement Ratchet – Why Nothing You Measure Ever Leaves

In the Season 3 opener, Kevin Novak names the measurement ratchet: organizations can add a measure but almost never subtract one, and the reason is accountability, not analytics. Seventy years of research, from Ridgway to Porter, the two mechanisms that keep the ratchet turning, what it sounds like when a leadership team tries to retire a measure, and the four questions and six moves that make retirement a practice.

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 030: The Long Game – Leading Institutional Transformation Across Decades

Episode 030 The Long Game – Leading Institutional Transformation Across Decades Why the Denominator of Change is Pace and Patience Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Tom Serena Duration: 55 minutes Available: July 2, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 30  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 Long Game – Leading Institutional Transformation Across Decades with Tom Serena Season…

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 029: Beyond Demographics – Why Data Without Craft Fails and Craft Without Data Guesses

Episode 029 Beyond Demographics – Why Data Without Craft Fails and Craft Without Data Guesses Why Most Organizational Communication and Marketing Fails Host: Kevin Novak Guests: Deborah Patton and Justin Thorp Duration: 64 minutes Available: June 25, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 29  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 Beyond Demographics: Why Data Without Craft Fails and…

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 028: The Trust Paradox – Transforming the Institutions Built to Stay the Same

Episode 028 The Trust Paradox – Transforming the Institutions Built to Stay the Same A Small Category of institutions cannot Signal Change the Way Everyone Else Does Host: Kevin Novak Guest: Elizabeth Stewart Duration: 61 minutes Available: June 18, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 28  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 Trust Paradox: Transforming the Institutions…

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 027: Transformation Theater – Why Organizations Perform Change Instead of Making It

Episode 027 Transformation Theater – Why Organizations Perform Change Instead of Making It Organizations Keep Performing Change Instead of Making It. The Form Is Present. The Substance Is Not. Host: Kevin Novak Duration: 34 minutes Available: June 10, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 27  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 Transformation Theater – Why Organizations Perform…

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 026: The Readiness Illusion: Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence

Episode 026 The Readiness Illusion: Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence The Agent Era Is Real. We Are Not Yet Ready for It. Both of Those Statements can Be True at the Same Time. Host: Kevin Novak Duration: 25 minutes Available: June 4, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 26  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…

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 025: The Collective Transformation Problem: When an Entire Industry Has to Change at Once

Episode 025 The Collective Transformation Problem: When an Entire Industry Has to Change at Once Explore the Human Dynamics of Collective Industry and Organizational Transformation Host: Kevin Novak | Guest: Eric Hoplin Duration: 61 minutes Available: May 29, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 25  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 Season 2, Episode 12 | 025…

Human Factor Podcast Season 2 Episode 024: The Growth Trap – What Scaling Reveals About the Human Side of Transformation

Episode 024 The Growth Trap: What Scaling Reveals About the Human Side of Transformation What Breaks When an Organization Scales Faster than Its People Can Adapt Host: Kevin Novak | Guest: Mike Perino Duration: 69 minutes Available: May 21, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 24  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 Season 2, Episode 11 |…