Corey-osity Unleashed

Corey-osity Unleashed isn’t your typical leadership podcast - no corporate fluff, no HR jargon. Just raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about how we can (and should) treat our people in today’s messy, complex workplaces.With our guests, we get curious by challenging the norm and questioning the status quo, exploring and unleashing bold new ways to think and act about people and work.Expect tough truths, honest insights, a few laughs, and maybe even a well-placed swear word or two—because let’s be real, our people deserve better, and our businesses can’t afford to keep getting it wrong

Corey-osity Unleashed is a business podcast hosted by Debra & Ken Corey, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Debra & Ken Corey hosts Corey-osity Unleashed, a business show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  S2E9 Corey-osity Unleashed

  Jun 5, 202645 minS2

  <p>The Long-Handled Screwdriver: Why Experts Make the Worst Micromanagers</p><p><br></p><p>What if the best coaching never happens in a booked one-hour session — but in the small, everyday moments most managers walk straight past?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Corey-osity Unleashed, Debra and Ken Corey sit down with Gillian Jones-Williams — CEO, motivational speaker, author of 50 Top Tools for Coaching (now in its sixth edition), and 2024 Businesswoman of the Decade. Gillian left home at 17, built her firm Emerge Development Consultancy across three decades and multiple recessions, and was later diagnosed with bipolar and ADHD...

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  Episode #8

  S2E8 Corey-osity Unleashed with Ian Pettigrew

  Apr 17, 202647 minS2

  <p>Hope is a Strategy: Why Leaders Must Learn to Cultivate It</p><p><br></p><p>What do people all over the world want most from their leaders? According to Gallup's research presented at the World Government Summit, the answer is hope. Not strategy. Not vision decks. Hope. And yet almost no leadership development programme teaches it.</p><p><br></p><p>Ian Pettigrew has spent years researching exactly this gap. In this conversation, he unpacks what hope actually is — and why it's not the same as optimism, positivity, or wishful thinking. Hope, by his definition, is a belief th...

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  Episode #7

  S2E7 Corey-osity Unleashed with Fredrik Haren

  Mar 27, 202645 minS2

  <p>What if the secret to your next breakthrough idea isn't thinking harder — but getting your ego completely out of the way?</p><p><br /></p><p>Fredrik Haren has spent 25 years and visited 75+ countries on a single mission: to understand where the best ideas actually come from. He calls himself the Creativity Explorer, and in this conversation with Debra and Ken, he lives up to the title — dismantling assumptions about creativity, sharing stories from Thailand to Bhutan to Vietnam, and leaving you with one deceptively simple challenge that could change how you think forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>You...

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  Episode #6

  S2E6 Corey-osity Unleashed with Zach Mercurio

  Mar 5, 202644 minS2

  <p>Employee engagement just hit a decade low -- despite over a billion dollars poured into fixing it. What if the entire industry has been solving the wrong problem?</p><p><br></p><p>Leadership researcher Zach Mercurio has spent years studying what actually makes people thrive at work. His answer isn't another engagement framework or recognition platform. It's something far more elemental: mattering. The daily experience of feeling seen, heard, valued, and needed by the people around you. His research across 22 industries and thousands of workers reveals a striking pattern -- it's never the perks, the awards, or the...

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  Episode #5

  S2E5 Corey-osity Unleashed with Sally Gibson - Creating a Thriving Workplace Culture

  Feb 20, 202652 minS2

  <p>What happens when a company in a small community decides to go all-in on its people — and wins Employer of the Year doing it?</p><p><br></p><p>Sally Gibson, MD of Dawleys, didn't follow a textbook. She built a culture where employees nominate each other on a "WOW Board," where every single role has its own purpose and mission statement, and where leaders are measured not by how tightly they control — but by how freely they let go.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Sally reveals the surprisingly simple practices behind Dawleys' award-winning culture: why hiri...

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