Welcome to The Value-Powered Leadership Podcast, hosted by Stacey Chillemi and featuring David Cohen , global consultant, author, and trusted advisor on ethics, leadership, and organizational culture. This podcast cuts through corporate fluff to explore what truly drives sustainable success: alignment between values, behavior, and leadership. David brings over 30 years of experience helping organizations around the world, including healthcare systems, Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies, uncover and realign their core values. You'll hear: Real-world case studies Contrarian insights Practical strategies How to hire for the perfect fit Leading with authenticity Preservation of company culture during change Confronting the ethical challenges posed by AI in recruitment Whether you’re a business leader, HR professional, consultant, or someone navigating a
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Episode #13
The Hidden Cost of Celebrating Results Over Character in Organizations
Jul 3, 202640 minS1
Discover how rewarding high performers can damage organizational culture. Leadership expert David Cohen reveals why confidence and results can be misleading, masking toxic behaviors that erode trust. Learn strategies to align actions with core values for sustainable success. Tune in to protect your organization's future. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: david@sagltd.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
You did not make one big mistake. You made a hundred small ones that felt reasonable at the time — the hire who hit the numbers the wrong way, the behavior you overlooked because the quarter was tight, the standard you let slide once and never quite recovered. Culture does not collapse. It erodes. And by the time you notice it the people who cared most are already gone. David Cohen has spent his career helping companies like Michelin and Boehringer build cultures that actually hold — and his own path through ADHD, dyslexia, and cancer gives every lesson the weight of someone who has fought for what matters. What he shares about hiring for values, rewarding how people get results, and refusing to trade long-term identity for short-term numbers is the most important leadership conversation you are not having loudly enough inside your organization. Culture is not what you announce. It is what you allow. This episode shows you the difference. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https://sagltd.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ 📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ 📩 Email: david@sagltd.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
<b>Managing your team by generation is quietly driving out your best people. David Cohen explains what actually shapes performance — and it isn't birth year. </b><br /><br />Host <b>Lisa Urbanski </b>sits down with <b>David Cohen</b>, founder of DS Cohen & Associates and author of Selecting the Best, to break down why generational labels are lazy leadership — and what to read instead.<br /><br /><b>You'll learn: </b><br />📣 Why generational labels backfire on leaders<br /><br />🧠 Traits vs behaviors — what predicts performance<br /><br />🔄 Why life stage beats birth year<br /><br />🚪 How stereotypes push out top talent<br /><b...
Why Your Employees Are Burnt Out — Even When Engagement Is High
May 25, 202637 minS1
If your team is burnt out, quietly quitting, or emotionally checked out — your engagement score won't tell you why. That's the blind spot this episode is here to fix.<br /><br />Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with organizational consultant and author David Cohen to unpack the difference between employee experience and employee engagement — and why confusing the two is silently damaging your culture, your retention, and your bottom line. <br /><br />You'll learn:<br />🔍 Why high engagement scores can mask a deeply broken experience<br />📋 How surveys are gamed — and what the data is really telling you<br />🧠 The experience pyramid that dri...
Stop Hiring the Wrong People: Why AI Resumes Are Fooling Companies
May 8, 202640 minS1
<b>AI is changing the hiring process fast—but it may also be helping the wrong candidates look perfect on paper.</b><br /><br />In this episode, host <b>Lisa Urbanski t</b>alks with hiring expert <b>David Cohen</b> about why companies must look beyond resumes to hire people who are aligned with company culture.<br /><br /><b>You’ll learn: </b><br />🧠 Why “can do” does not always mean “will do”<br /><br />⚠️ How AI-generated resumes can mislead hiring teams<br /><br />💬 What interview questions reveal real behavior<br /><br />🤝 Why emotional intelligence matters more than ever<br /><br />✅ How leaders...
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