Shedding the Corporate Bitch

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Has this ever been you? You walk into the meeting with your game face on. Firm voice, crossed arms, and no room for questions, because that’s what you believe a “real leader” looks like.  And, while your team nods along, they also have already seen right through your act. It's too bad you haven't noticed it within yourself. Yet. Authentic...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Leading through change gets harder every time you wait for a problem to get loud before you act.  In this episode, you’ll learn how to spot disruption early, plan for more than one future, and bring your team with you so you move first. AI, the economy, and the political climate are shaking up organizations right now.  Most leaders respond the same...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Feeling unfulfilled at work, even after the promotion, the raise, and the seat at the table?  This episode shows you why the feeling you were promised never shows up, and how to get it back without quitting your job or blowing up your life. Most high achievers have been climbing since their first internship. Each rung promises that this is where yo...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Don't thrust yourself into a new leadership role before you listen to this episode or you'll risk setting yourself up for failure.  Bernadette Boas breaks down why traditional “first 90 days” leadership playbooks miss the messy human realities of stepping into a new people manager role. They overlook the fear, politics, being watched, and...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Do you experience Sunday-night dread, sleepless nights, or simply unmotivated to go the extra mile? How is it impacting your effectiveness on the job? Driven leaders push through all of it, and that's exactly how drift takes the wheel and controls how you show up each day, and more importantly how your team experiences you. I sat down with Dr....

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! ABOUT THIS EPISODE: After more than 400 executives coached, I have found one common attribute of those executives who successfully transforms: they were truly coachable.  Most executives aren't.  They think they're open-minded, they say they take feedback, they insist they want to grow, but the moment feedback is given to them that makes...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Breathwork isn't wellness. Learn the 60-second nervous system reset executives use to reclaim clarity, presence, and leadership influence.   About This Episode: Most executives don't realize they're holding their breath through back-to-back meetings. Your nervous system stays in overdrive, your thinking fogs, decisions that should ta...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Your high-potential just hit a ceiling she can't see. Your strong contributor is running a toxic sub-team and you're not sure how to course-correct without losing him. Your new promotion deserves better than a "good luck" and a handbook. Executive coaching is the $20 billion industry you're underusing. Most HR leaders and h...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! About This Episode Most leaders treat employee turnover like a compensation problem or a market problem.  Kevin Patrick of Trinity One Consulting spent 15 years inside ERP systems implementations before realizing it's neither; it's a trust problem, and it's fixable. In this episode, Kevin walks through the Dream Manager methodology:...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! You've done the work. You've discovered who you are, confronted the fears running your leadership, shed the old story, and started creating something new.  So why does one bad day, one hard conversation, one piece of sharp feedback still have the power to send you right back to where you started? In the final 5th episode of the From Stuck...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! About This Episode Most leaders assume their team's friction is a personality clash.  Executive and business coach Debbie Longo says it's almost always behavior, and the leadership blind spot she runs into most is control and manipulation.  In this episode, Debbie walks through how a single thought becomes a behavior, why some leaders nee...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! You did the work and you let go of the old story, the fear, the pattern that kept you stuck. So why does it still feel like nothing's actually changed? In this episode, Bernadette Boas breaks down the mistake nearly every leader makes right after a real breakthrough: mistaking the relief of letting go for the finish line. She walks through the...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! You're the most reliable person on your team, and that reliability might be exactly what's keeping you from the next promotion.  In this episode, executive and career transition coach Laura Berman Fortgang joins Bernadette to unpack the entrepreneurial mindset every corporate leader needs, and why the people who do everything right often...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Most leaders don't stay stuck because they lack skill, they stay stuck because of an authentic leadership identity they haven't claimed yet.  In Episode 3 of From Stuck to Leading self-coaching series, Bernadette Boas breaks down the difference between a Borrowed, Performed, and Owned leadership identity, and walks through exactly what ha...

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We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Your leadership gaps aren’t measuring what you haven’t learned. They’re measuring what you’ve been afraid to confront.  In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas names the five inner fears, including leadership self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and fear of failure that quietly run even the most accomplished leaders from the inside out. This is...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! If you've been powering through your workday instead of actually leading it, this episode will change how you think about your next move.  Bernadette Boas sits down with career strategy and executive coach Randi Roberts to talk about what it really takes to take control of your career path starting with the moment Randi turned down a company-r...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! In this 5-part series premiere of From Stuck to Leading , a five-part self-coaching experience on Shedding the Corporate B!tch, executive coach Bernadette Boas opens with the question at the foundation of every coaching engagement she runs: Who are you as a leader when no one is watching?  Not your title, not your results, not your LinkedIn profile...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Workplace dispute resolution is one of the least discussed and most costly blindspots in executive leadership.  In this episode of Shedding the Corporate B!tch , executive coach Bernadette Boas sits down with Felicia Harris Hoss , of Harris Hoss Mediations & Arbitration , a nationally recognized mediator with 30 years of trial law experience, t...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! The 5-Step Transformation Framework That Turns Your Biggest Leadership Gap Into Your Greatest Strength About This Episode: After 25 years in corporate America as VP, Chief Knowledge Officer, global team leader, Bernadette Boas was fired and labeled a tyrant. What she built out of that experience is a proven, five-step leadership transformation fram...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Most leaders measure engagement with an annual survey and call it done. Ian M. Watts has spent two and a half decades proving that approach wrong and building a methodology that creates the kind of loyalty money alone will never buy. In this episode, Ian joins Bernadette Boas to break down the real cost of employee disengagement,  and it is not a s...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Most team dysfunction doesn't start with a bad employee. It starts with a missing foundation.  In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas lays out the five characteristics of a high-performing team and explains exactly why the absence of even one will unravel everything else. If you have a team member who ignores direction, meetings that...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Role clarity is the most underleveraged driver of leadership performance, and most organizations aren't building it.  In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch , executive coach Bernadette Boas sits down with Jackson Lynch , founder of Talent Sherpa , to examine why talented people consistently underperform when the architecture around t...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Your calendar isn't a time problem. It's a leadership leverage problem. In this solo episode, executive leadership coach Bernadette Boas introduces the TIMER Leadership Framework — a five-phase operating system designed for leaders who re ready to stop surviving their schedule and start leading with intention.  What you'll learn:  Wh...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! If Part 1 of this conversation with Norman Wolfe gave you the "why" behind the Living Organization Framework, Part 2 gives you the "how."  In this episode, Bernadette and Norman go deeper into the four concrete leadership skills that make the framework operational, and more importantly, why most leaders are missing all of them....