Radical Respect a book by Kim Scott

Kim, Wesley and Ernest respond to feedback from the last episode that they needed to articulate more clearly their ideas for alternatives to top down management structures. 

After a hiatus, the Radical Respect podcast has returned for the fall of 2025. In other exciting news, Kim’s co-host from Season One, Ernest Adams, is back and joins Kim and Wesley as co-host of Season Four. Ernest is an executive from Nike, Danaher, Ralph Lauren and Ford Motor Company. Wesley has led developer relations and been a community manager at a number of tech companies. Kim is the author...

Kim and Wesley welcome entrepreneur, investor and author, Ellen Pao . They talk about what inspired Ellen and her co-founders to start Project Include nearly 10 years ago.  Historically, many firms have some sort of "bias busting" training session and then feel as though they have checked the box on this complicated topic.  It has become especially challenging in recent years with notable pushback...

Today, Wesley and Kim welcome Elizabeth Blass , an executive with 15+ years of experience in Customer Success organizations in a variety of fields.  They discuss Leadership in general and specifically, how it can be hard to receive feedback as a leader when you do something that unintentionally causes offense.  How do you discover that it happened in the first place and then, what can you do to ad...

Kim and Wesley speak with WeAreLATech founder and podcaster Espree Devora about her experience as young tech founder.  Espree talks about how her early passion for technology, art and business and how this set the foundation for her future endeavors.  While she did not know or even understand the traditional rules of how to start a business or how to raise funds, she did not let that deter her dri...

Today Kim and Wesley welcome Shalini Shybut . In recent years, non-profit organizations have worked very hard to hire leaders of color who reflect the communities they serve.  Kim and Wesley discuss with Shalini the additional challenges and pressures faced by leaders of color at non-profit organizations, especially the "entitlement gap".  Why do these leaders sometimes struggle to thrive?  What c...

Kim and Wesley welcome Amy Gallo the author of " Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) ".  They all tell stories about working with someone especially difficult and what they learned from these situations.  They also review some of the archetypes from Amy's book: the know-it-all, the tormentor, the political operator, the insecure boss.. to name a few.  Amy discusses how t...

Today, Wesley and Kim welcome Susan Fowler Rigetti.   She talks her experiences at Uber as a young software engineer and the challenges when dealing with bad behavior.  What can you do when you try to speak up when the internals systems are setup up to protect the "high performers"?  They discuss what to do when the culture of the company is not aligned with your personal values and how to speak t...

There's no doubt that mental health in the workplace has become increasingly destigmatized in recent years. While conversations about its importance have now become commonplace, they can fall flat if people don't know how to engage in these conversations effectively. In this episode of the Radical Respect podcast, Kim and Wesley speak with Melissa Doman , who unpacks her playbook for how to talk a...

Athletics and the workplace are alike in their reliance on strong teams, where the health and performance of each group hinge on individual contributions. In this episode of the Radical Respect podcast, Kim speaks with athletic consultant Dr. Kensa Gunter. Drawing on her experience in the sports world —  consulting with coaches, trainers and athletic administrators — Dr. Gunter explores how leader...

Experiential and cognitive diversity help a team thrive. Specifically, an organizational culture that welcomes neurodivergent people limits groupthink risks and helps to foster innovation, translating into a competitive edge. To reap these benefits, companies are realizing they need to do more to both support their existing neurodivergent employees and recruit more. In this episode, author, cognit...

Kim and Wesley have a conversations with author and sought after speaker, Henna Pryor about her recent book, Good Awkward.  They talk about the lost art of conversation, a skill that atrophied for many of us during Covid.  There is a lively discussion of what one can do to rebuild these important workplace conversational muscles.   About Henna: Henna Pryor, PCC is a dynamic Workplace Performance E...

Wesley and Kim speak to Diane Kalen Sukra about her experiences working with local leaders and the challenges she has experienced.  She talks in detail about the rise of bullying and harrassing behavior in local government.  Once a community finds itself in "Bullyville", the community's ability to communicate and collaborate is dramatically inhibited. In more extreme forms, this affects how vital...

It's launch week for Kim's new book, Radical Respect.  Also, Kim and Wesley talk about how important it is talk understand workplace systems to succeed.  

Kim and Wesley talk to workplace culture expert Denise Hamilton about her new book, Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future . Denise reads passages from her book, prompting some real conversations. Are you trying to figure out how to gear up mentally for this election year? Denise's new book will help you! Denise Hamilton is the founder and CEO of WatchHerWork, a digital l...

Failing to call people on their BS breeds problematic overconfidence that can harm collaboration and team confidence, especially among team members who are systematically disadvantaged. In this episode, Kim and Wesley discuss bloviating BS with Hollywood attorney Tyler Chou , who shared her experience working under a boss with no entertainment experience but strong connections in the industry. Eve...

Many of us have experienced the office "bloviating BSer," an overconfident coworker who takes up more than their fair share of airtime in a meeting, even though they are often not the most informed person in the room. In this episode, Kim and Wesley discuss this behavior with Minette Norman , who shares how a bloviating BSer drove her to leave the software industry and become an advocate for the i...

People don't care how much you know, unless they know how much you care. As a leader, you should give out that care, taking the time to pause and consider if your feedback delivery is coming across in the way you intend. In this episode, Kim and Wesley chat with Ron Carucci , who reflects on how giving feedback at the bank made him grapple with his understandings of racial and gender privilege. Ro...

We're constantly bombarded with the message that leadership and bullying go hand in hand. But in reality, bullying destroys the workplace environment, making it impossible for employees to do their best work. In this episode, Kim discusses workplace bullying with Janice Omadeke , who reflects on the emotional duress caused by a bullying boss early in her career. Janice Omadeke is a proven leader f...

A leader’s job is to foster an environment where people can collaborate productively. Prejudice, a belief that some sort of false stereotype is true, gets in the way of a respectful workplace culture. In this episode, Kim and Wesley discuss prejudice with Dr. Tina Opie, who shares her experiences with prejudice from her time as the youngest employee and only Black woman in the workplace. Dr. Tina...

From a young age, we're taught the golden rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. In this episode, Kim and Wesley advocate instead for a platinum rule approach, which encourages treating others as they would like to be treated, acknowledging that every person has different needs and preferences. Wesley draws upon his experiences as a neurodivergent person in the workplace to discuss st...

There's no doubt: Pointing out bias is awkward. That's why it's helpful to make bias disruption a norm. In this episode, Kim and Wesley discuss how to disrupt bias with Dr. Philip Hickman, who shares a story revealing how parental biases can impact the school environment and student wellbeing. Bio: Dr. Phil, is a renowned educational expert, EdTech visionary, psychologist, author, and entrepreneur...

Want to help your team change unproductive, biased patterns of thought? One of the best things you can do is sit down with them and explain why you think doing so is essential to a collaborative, respectful working environment. In this week's episode, Kim and Wesley speak with Matt Abrahams, who shares his experiences facing bias as the only dad among mothers on the playground. Matt Abrahams is a...

How can you teach your team to disrupt bias? The key is for leaders to not teach their teams about bias as an abstraction, but to teach them how to disrupt the specific biases relevant to their employees. In this episode, Kim and Wesley discuss different ways of preventing bias with Kasia Musur, who shares her journey to realizing that toxicity is not an inevitable element of the business world. K...

Creating a just workplace requires institutional courage and a leadership commitment to take action on behalf of those who trust or depend on the institution— even when it’s unpleasant, difficult or costly. In this episode, Kim and Wesley discuss how to build a just workplace with Delia Grenville, who shares a story about how institutional betrayal fueled mobbing, a form of group bullying, in her...