The Generational Edge with Kristina Green

Permission to Be Real: What Authentic Leadership Looks Like Across Generations | Cherie Caldwell Some generations were trained to be professional. Others were trained to be human. And now everybody is in the same Slack channel pretending “bring your whole self to work” means the same thing to everyone. In this episode of The Generational Edge with Kristina Green , we sit down with Cherie Caldwell...

Trust Issues: Why Your Team Doesn’t Believe You — And How to Fix It If your team does not believe you, it is probably not because they are negative. It is because they have receipts for inconsistency. You told them your door was open, but you were never really safe. You asked for feedback, but did nothing with it. You said “use your PTO,” then acted funny when they did. You said “we’re being trans...

Leading Through Transition: How Each Generation Responds to Change | Jennifer Fondrevay Every leader loves to call their team “resilient” right up until change shows up and people start acting like humans. In this episode of The Generational Edge with Kristina Green , she talks with Jennifer Fondrevay , Chief Humanity Officer and M&A whisperer, about what actually happens when transition hits...

Corporate Parenting™: How Workplaces Started Acting Like Helicopter Parents If your boss checks in on you more than your parents did in college, we need to talk. In this episode of The Generational Edge , Kristina Green names a pattern too many workplaces keep dressing up as leadership: over-monitoring, over-explaining, over-correcting, attendance policing, and all the other little control habits...

Fractional HR did not break your culture. It just exposed it. In this episode of The Generational Edge , Kristina Green talks with Tony Ware of RevUp HR about what happens when organizations expect HR to be the full-time culture babysitter, hall monitor, and cleanup crew for leadership dysfunction. This conversation gets into why some leaders love the flexibility and expertise of fractional HR, wh...

Work ethic did not die. Exploitation just stopped being cute.  In this episode of The Generational Edge , Kristina Green unpacks one of the workplace’s most tired complaints: “Nobody wants to work anymore.” No. People are working. They are just less willing to be micromanaged, underpaid, overextended, and gaslit into calling burnout “commitment.” Kristina breaks down why leaders keep judging today...

Return to office is not the same thing as return to culture. In this episode of The Generational Edge , Kristina Green talks with Melanie White, founder and CEO of Sisyphus HR, about one of the workplace’s most tired myths: that dragging people back into the office will somehow rebuild trust, fix culture, and make people more accountable. Spoiler: it won’t. This conversation gets into why badge sw...

Outdated leadership systems are making work suck. Welcome to The Generational Edge with Kristina Green. The podcast that’s not afraid to call out bad behavior, outdated nonsense, and entitlement making work harder than it needs to be. After all, none of us are working for fun. No one is safe, including me, because we’re all ‘guilty’ of generational misdemeanors. In this kickoff episode, we get int...