Nectar HR

Culture Creators

Business EN ↓ 5 episodes

Culture Creators is a podcast for executives who own culture outcomes—engagement, performance, trust, and retention—featuring real leadership stories and practical playbooks you can apply immediately to make your culture your greatest strategic advantage. Each episode unpacks a real culture challenge a leader faced, what was driving it beneath the surface, and the specific actions that helped them turn it around. Culture isn’t built with slogans. It’s built (and protected) through decisions: what leaders tolerate, what they reinforce, how they communicate, and how they respond when pressure of...

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Why This CEO Demands Criticism From Her Team 08.07.2026 59:35

Want your team to actually tell you the truth? In the Army, Roxanne Petraeus ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxanne-bras-petraeus-2292b8109/ ) watched senior officers announce an open-door policy and then act like the door was shut. So she stopped trust...

Why This CEO Sacrificed Growth to Save His Culture 24.06.2026 58:44

When Populus Group hit about 100 employees and was growing fast, founder and CEO Bobby Herrera did something his team revolted against: he intentionally slowed the company down. They came at him "with pitchforks," asking why he was hitting the brakes m...

Why The Customer Doesn't Come First at the Arizona Diamondbacks 10.06.2026 43:55

Derrick Hall has spent 35 years in baseball, more than two decades of it running the Arizona Diamondbacks. He’s managed to produce incredible results in one of the most competitive industries on earth — and the most important ones aren’t on the field:M...

Why This $3.5B Founder Made His CHRO His Most Trusted Advisor 27.05.2026 1:02:45

What does a CEO actually want from their CHRO? Aaron Skonnard, the founder and former CEO of Pluralsight, has a more specific answer than most. Aaron co-founded Pluralsight in 2004, scaled it past $600M in revenue, took it public on Nasdaq, and sold it...

30% of CEOs Avoid Their HR Leader with Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. 13.05.2026 57:36

When you're an HR leader and your CEO doesn't trust you, you feel it before anyone says it. The meetings you weren't in. The decisions made without you. The growing sense that your title is bigger than your influence. Johnny C. Taylor has been there. H...