Conflict Reveals Culture Podcast (with David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris)

Why do old organizational promises continue showing up years after leaders believe they’ve been resolved? In this episode of Conflict Reveals Culture, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris explores the gap between leadership intentions and remembered experiences, revealing why trust is often shaped less by what leaders meant to do and more by what people experienced along the way. Through a restorative...

When people accuse a leader of playing favorites, the immediate question is usually: “Is it true?” But that may not be the most useful question. Long before people voice concerns about favoritism, they’ve already been observing who gets access, whose mistakes receive grace, whose opinions carry weight, and how accountability is applied. In this episode of Conflict Reveals Culture, I explore how ac...

Most organizational conflicts arrive disguised as something else. In this first episode of Conflict Reveals Culture, I explore a challenge many leaders recognize: people stop speaking honestly in meetings. What looks like a communication problem often reveals deeper questions about trust, power, accountability, and what people have learned happens when they tell the truth. A leader recently told m...

For years, people have brought me workplace conflicts that seemed unrelated. A team that won’t speak honestly, employees convinced leadership is playing favorites, a staff struggling with trust. The details change, but the conflicts often reveal something deeper about trust, power, accountability, belonging, and culture. That’s what this podcast explores. Listen to the trailer above, or read the t...