Shedding the Corporate Bitch
Welcome to Shedding the Corporate Bitch — the podcast where executive leadership gets real.
Hosted by executive coach, strategist, and unapologetic truth-teller Bernadette Boas, this show is built for senior leaders, CHROs, and HR executives who are done with surface-level leadership advice and ready for the conversations that actually move the needle.
Drawing from 25 years in corporate — including being fired — and over a decade coaching leaders at the highest levels, Bernadette delivers the raw insights, honest dialogue, and practical strategies you won't find in a leadership textbook. Each episode tackles what's really happening in today's organizations: toxic cultures, burned-out teams, leadership gaps, talent retention crises, and the fear, doubt, and imposter syndrome that quietly undermine even the most accomplished executives.
Joined by world-class leaders, HR innovators, and organizational experts, Bernadette doesn't just identify the problems — she hands you the tools to solve them.
This is the podcast for leaders who are ready to shed what's holding them — and their organizations — back, and build something that actually works.
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Episodes
511 episodes
Why High Achievers Drift Off Course Without Ever Noticing
Do you experience Sunday-night dread, sleepless nights, or simply unmotivated to go the extra mile? How is it impacting your effectiveness on the job?Driven leaders push through all of it, and that's exactly how drift takes the wheel and...
Most Leaders Aren't Coachable - Here's Why!
ABOUT THIS EPISODE:After more than 400 executives coached, I have found one common attribute of those executives who successfully transforms: they were truly coachable. Most executives aren't. They think th...
Stop the Anxiety Spiral: The Breathwork Secret Executives Miss
Breathwork isn't wellness. Learn the 60-second nervous system reset executives use to reclaim clarity, presence, and leadership influence. About This Episode: Most executives don't realize they're holding their breath t...
15 Questions to Qualify Your Next Executive Coach
Your high-potential just hit a ceiling she can't see. Your strong contributor is running a toxic sub-team and you're not sure how to course-correct without losing him. Your new promotion deserves better than a "good luck" and a handbook....
Employee Turnover: The Real Reason 78% of Teams Check Out.
About This EpisodeMost leaders treat employee turnover like a compensation problem or a market problem. Kevin Patrick of Trinity One Consulting spent 15 years inside ERP systems implementations before realizing it'...
The Real Reason Change Doesn't Stick After a Bad Week
You've done the work. You've discovered who you are, confronted the fears running your leadership, shed the old story, and started creating something new. So why does one bad day, one hard conversation, one piece of sharp feedback s...
Leadership Blind Spots: Why Your Best People Keep Quitting
About This EpisodeMost leaders assume their team's friction is a personality clash. Executive and business coach Debbie Longo says it's almost always behavior, and the leadership blind spot she runs into most ...
Why Growth Alone Won't Change Your Career: Part 4
You did the work and you let go of the old story, the fear, the pattern that kept you stuck. So why does it still feel like nothing's actually changed?In this episode, Bernadette Boas breaks down the mistake nearly every leader makes rig...
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Gap That's Killing Your Promotion
You're the most reliable person on your team, and that reliability might be exactly what's keeping you from the next promotion. In this episode, executive and career transition coach Laura Berman Fortgang joins Bernadette to unpack ...
What Your Holding Onto Is Holding You Back - Ep 3 of From Stuck to Leading Series
Most leaders don't stay stuck because they lack skill, they stay stuck because of an authentic leadership identity they haven't claimed yet. In Episode 3 of From Stuck to Leading self-coaching series, Bernadette Boas breaks down the...
Why Top Performers Keep Getting Passed Over for Promotion with Tim Sharp
You're outperforming everyone, and still getting passed over. A 30-year HR insider explains why companies reward compliance over contribution, and how to speak up without killing your career.
The 5 Inner Fears Running Your Leadership: Part 2
Your leadership gaps aren’t measuring what you haven’t learned. They’re measuring what you’ve been afraid to confront. In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas names the five inner fears, including leadership self-doubt, imp...
Career Path Strategy: How To Drive Your Own Career Direction
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...
New Series: From Stuck to Leading - Ep 1 Leadership Identity: The Question That Stops Executives Cold
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 que...
How to Handle Workplace Disputes Before They Become Lawsuits — with Felicia Harris Hoss
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 co...
I Got Fired So You Could Lead Better
The 5-Step Transformation Framework That Turns Your Biggest Leadership Gap Into Your Greatest StrengthAbout This Episode:After 25 years in corporate America as VP, Chief Knowledge Officer, global team leader, Bernadette Boas was fire...
Employee Engagement Strategies That Actually Move the Needle with Ian Watts
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 t...
Why Your Team Ignores You and What to Fix First
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 ...
Define What Winning Looks Like and Watch Performance Shift
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, executi...
Your Calendar is Lying: The TIMER Leadership Framework
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...
Part 2 of 2 - Stop Managing the Machine - Leadership Skills That Actually Close the Execution Gap
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...
Leadership Presence Unpacked: Encore of Show Up or Get Out!
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 direc...
Part 1 of 2 - Your Company Is Not A Machine - The Living Organization Framework
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 do...
Your Leadership Training is Failing - Here’s the System Fix
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...
Slow Down to Go Fast: The Change Leadership Framework
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 Sheddi...