Shedding the Corporate Bitch

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....

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Are you showing up for your team — or just showing up? There’s a difference. And your team already knows which one you’re doing. In this solo episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach Bernadette Boas gets direct about one of the most overlooked failures in leadership today: the gap between being available and being genuinely present....

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! What if the reason your strategy isn't getting executed has nothing to do with the strategy and everything to do with the model you're using to run your organization? In Part 1 of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with Norman Wolfe, executive consultant, author, and founder of the Living Organization Framework,...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! US companies spent nearly $100 billion on workplace training last year. Employee engagement hasn't meaningfully improved in two decades.  In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, executive coach Bernadette Boas makes the case that the problem is not one of effort, talent, or even budget, it's a design problem.  Most organizations...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Change is no longer an event. It's the environment and the leaders who will win in the next decade are the ones who stop waiting for it to slow down and start building the capacity to perform inside it.  In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch , host Bernadette Boas sits down with executive coach and leadership strategist Loretta Stagn...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Is your successor ready, today? Succession planning is one of the most universally acknowledged priorities in corporate America — and one of the most consistently neglected.  In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch , host and executive coach Bernadette Boas draws on 16 years of direct work with executives, HR leaders, and management teams t...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! How to Lead Through Constant Change Without Losing Your Best People Your best people are being recruited right now. Not because they're unhappy, but because someone out there is persistent enough to keep calling until they say yes.  If the only thing holding your team together is inertia, this episode is going to hit different. Our guest is Bo...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Are you a leader coach or a manager to your people? In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas, tackles one of the most consequential and most misunderstood leadership skills: coaching.  Not coaching in the abstract, motivational sense, but the practical, disciplined capability that separates leaders who develop and grow...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Host Bernadette interviews organizational scientist and consultant Andrea D. Carter, creator of the validated Belonging First Methodology, on why workplaces confuse fitting in with belonging and how that fuels burnout.  Andrea explains belonging as measurable infrastructure, not just a feeling, built through five indicators: comfort, connection, co...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! The executive coaching industry is worth $20 billion — and yet most leaders and HR teams either skip the vetting process entirely or choose coaches for the wrong reasons. In this episode, Bernadette Boas lays out a powerful, practical framework including 15 must-ask questions so you can confidently identify, evaluate, and hire the executive or lead...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! In this powerful episode, we sit down with Rachel Lawrence — confidence coach, speaker, and author of Confident as F*ck to talk about why so many professionals struggle with imposter syndrome, and what it actually takes to overcome it. Rachel's story is anything but ordinary. From surviving workplace humiliation by toxic leaders in her 20s, to...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! 60-80% of managers have ZERO formal leadership training. Is your organization creating accidental managers? In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas exposes the hidden crisis destroying teams across corporate America: unprepared and untrained talented professionals promoted into leadership roles without the training, mindset, or support to...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Have you ever been labeled too sensitive, too blunt, too intense, or too much at work? In this episode, leadership coach and author Rachel Radway joins us to unpack the truth about neurodivergence in high-achieving professionals — and why many gifted leaders are misunderstood, sidelined, or burned out. We discuss:  • What neurodivergence really loo...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Most leaders don’t struggle with motivation—they struggle with clarity. In this episode, we break down why teams miss expectations even when goals seem “clear,” and how leaders unintentionally create confusion, overwhelm, and misalignment. This conversation dives deep into the four root causes behind execution failure: unclear goals, vague expectat...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! What does it take to shift from goal-driven leadership to identity-led leadership? In this episode, we sit down with Bianca D’Alessio — star of HBO Ma x’s Selling the Hamptons , top-ranked real estate broker, and author of Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Power and Lead with Lasting Impact.   Bianca shares why ambition isn’t the enemy...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! I am hooked! I can't stop watching and listening @TarynSmithMovement on Instagram. She is rowing across the Atlantic all by herself... she's on roughly, Day 44.  What can a 24-year-old rowing solo across the Atlantic teach seasoned corporate leaders about courage, endurance, fear, and leadership? More than you think. In this episode, we e...

We'd love to hear from you. Send us fan mail! Your job is not your identity—and believing it is may be costing you your energy, joy, and leadership longevity.  In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch , burnout coach and author Elisha Meek breaks down how high achievers unknowingly trap themselves in burnout through perfectionism, people-pleasing, and control. She shares practical tools...