Build a Vibrant Culture
Podcast
In each episode, you’ll learn how to improve business culture, leadership effectiveness, team communication, accountability, and project management, all essential to building a strong and sustainable organization. We equip leaders with the strategies, systems, and mindset needed to create a truly vibrant organizational culture that drives results.
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Hardcore Soft Skills: How To Master The Hardest Leadership Skills
Explore why soft skills are the hardest and most important leadership skills that create the best leaders, strongest teams, and healthiest workplace cultures.
The #1 Compensation Strategy Mistake Leaders Keep Making with Scott Trumpolt
The #1 compensation mistake leaders keep making is depending on pay bands. Learn how philosophy, pay transparency, and performance-based rewards impact employee engagement, retention, and business success.
Cybersecurity Isn’t an IT Problem. It’s a Leadership Failure With JC Gaillard
Cybersecurity isn’t an IT problem. It’s a leadership issue. Learn why culture, trust, and strategy are the real keys to cyber resilience.
How to Develop Talent Instead of Chasing It: A Better Leadership Strategy with Franco Greco
Struggling to find great people? Learn how to develop talent internally to transform your leadership, hiring strategy, and organizational culture.
How to Turn Real Conversations Into Marketing That Converts
Learn how to turn real customer conversations into marketing that converts. Start by building trust-driven content that grows your business.
The Leadership Skill That Fixes Workplace Culture and Saves You Money
Discover how deep listening improves workplace culture, communication, and leadership, while reducing costly mistakes and disengagement.
8 Power Skills (Not “Soft Skills”) Every Leader Needs with Nanci Appleman-Vassil
Why “soft skills” are actually power skills and how effective feedback, communication, and leadership adaptability can transform your workplace culture.
5 Roles Every Leader Must Play When Leading Through Change With Patrick Leddin, PHD
Discover the 5 roles every leader plays when leading through change. Leadership expert Patrick Leddin shares the Positive Disruptor mindset and practical tools for change management.
4 Keys to a Meaningful Life: Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious with Ruth Pearce
What does it really mean to live a meaningful life? In this episode of the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole Greer sits down with keynote speaker, executive coach, and author Ruth Pearce to explore the powerful mindset shifts that help people get out of their own way and start living with purpose. Drawing from her … Read more
7 Shifts That Turn Learning & Development into a Strategic Partner with Jess Almlie
Training alone won’t transform an organization—but the right 7 shifts in L&D just might. In this episode of the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole Greer sits down with learning and talent development strategist Jess Almlie, founder of Almlie Consulting and author of L&D Order Taker No More! Become a Strategic Business Partner. Jess shares insights from her decades of … Read more
From Delegation to Development: The Future of Leadership with Brad Federman
Delegation is broken — and it’s costing you growth, engagement, and retention. On this week’s episode of the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole sits down with Brad Federman, author of Never Delegate Again, and together they dismantle outdated leadership thinking that no longer works in today’s world and how to move from delegation to development. … Read more
Culture Shocked: Leadership Lessons from 100 Countries with Dean Foster
What does a missing jar of marmalade in India reveal about global leadership? If you have ever worked in a different country, you’ve most likely been Culture Shocked. In this episode of Build a Vibrant Culture, Nicole Greer sits down with cross-cultural business expert Dean Foster, author of Business Beyond Borders, to explore what he’s learned from … Read more
TRUTH TELLING, HONESTY,
AND CANDOR
ARE SOME OF MY CORE PRINCIPLES.
Name the challenge you're facing in your culture, and I will help you solve it.
From culture-shifting keynotes and workshops, executive coaching, or long-term partnerships, my work is to help you develop your next leaders.
I was fortunate to learn this early from an exceptional leader. She took an eager, overconfident new hire and developed me into a capable leader.
I went on to lead marketing and training for 80+ sites across the United States. Later, I achieved almost every credential in leadership development you’ve heard of. (see the list)
Since that time, I’ve joined organizations in almost every industry to BUILD VIBRANT CULTURES where employees take initiative and true ownership in their work.
Let’s build your leadership development strategy together.
