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 |…

Episode 023 The Pattern Spotter: What You See When You Are Inside Thirty Organizations At Once Explore the Recurring Human Behaviors, Resistance Patterns, and Cultural Dynamics that Repeat Host: Kevin Novak | Guest: Erin Fuller Duration: 59 minutes Available: May 14, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 23  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…

Episode 022 The Diagnostic Map: Why Transformation Fails at the Human Level An Eight-Question Diagnostic Map that Leaders can Use before Designing any Transformation Initiative Host: Kevin Novak Duration: 34 minutes Available: May 7, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 22  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 Imagine you are a physician and a patient walks into…

Episode 021 When Generations Collide – The Generational Fault Lines of Organizational Transformation People Who Share Formative Experiences Develop a Distinct Orientation Toward the World Host: Kevin Novak and Guest: Ryan Vet Duration: 71 minutes Available: May 1, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 21  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 Think about the last major change…

Episode 020 The Broken Contract — The Unwritten Promises Your Transformation Just Violated The Invisible Agreement that Governs how People actually Experience their Working Lives Hosts: Kevin Novak Duration: 34 minutes Available: April 2, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 20 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 Every person in your organization is operating under a contract that…

Episode 019 Structural Silence – Why Organizations Train People Not To Speak The Invisible System that Trains People not to Speak Hosts: Kevin Novak Duration: 32 minutes Available: March 26, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 19  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 Most organizations believe they have open cultures where people feel comfortable raising concerns. The…

Episode 018 The Organizational Immune System – When Culture Attacks What It Doesn’t Recognize The Organizational System that Neutralize Change Before it Can Take Hold Hosts: Kevin Novak with James Elliott Duration: 53 minutes Available: March 19, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 18  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 Your body has an immune system that…

Episode 017 The Algorithmic Mirror – What AI Reveals About How We Actually Think, Decide, and Deny What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Holds Up a Mirror Hosts: Kevin Novak Duration: 31 minutes Available: March 12, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 17  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 What happens when artificial intelligence holds up a mirror…

Episode 016 The Middle Management Trap – Why Your Most Critical Change Agents Are Set Up To Fail What Middle Management Actually Experiences During Change Hosts: Kevin Novak Duration: 40 minutes Available: March 5, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 16  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 Why do so many transformation initiatives “die in the middle”?…

Episode 015 Episode 015: The Contagion Effect – How Emotions Spread Through Organizations During Change and Transformation What Operates Below Conscious Awareness Hosts: Kevin Novak and Elizabeth Stewart Duration: 36 minutes Available: February 26, 2026 🎙️Season 2, Episode 15  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 Why does one anxious leader create an entire floor of…