Culture Shock™

Are you tired of a world divided into sides? What if the biggest shift in culture isn’t about picking a team, but understanding how society and organizations are deeply intertwined — and how that knowledge can save us all? Dr. Lauran Star, a trailblazing organizational psychologist, pulls back the curtain on the chaos of today’s societal and workplace culture. From the 1960s to now, he explores th...

Leadership has entered its influencer era. We've never had more leadership content, executive visibility, or corporate messaging—yet trust in leadership continues to decline. In this episode of Culture Shock™, Dr. Lauran Star exposes the growing gap between leadership and the performance of leadership. From carefully curated authenticity to leadership theater and perception management, we explore...

Psychological safety may be one of the most important concepts in organizational psychology. It's also become one of the most misunderstood. Somewhere between academic research, leadership workshops, and LinkedIn influencers, psychological safety got hijacked. What started as a powerful framework for truth-telling, innovation, and accountability has increasingly been rebranded as comfort, conflict...

Welcome to Culture Shock™: Everything You Think Is Separate... Isn't You think politics is over there. Work is over here. Social media is just entertainment. Leadership is a company problem. Culture is a society problem. Wrong. The same human behaviors driving dysfunction in our organizations are showing up in our communities, our institutions, our politics, and even our dinner tables. In the prem...