Don't Waste the Chaos
Don't Waste the Chaos is a weekly podcast for small business owners and HR professionals who want practical, no-nonsense people strategy.
Host Kerri M. Roberts is an HR strategist, consultant, and founder of Salt & Light Advisors with 20+ years of experience turning reactive HR into proactive systems.
Each Tuesday, she breaks down hiring, onboarding, compliance, culture, and leadership - the kind of strategy that typically costs thousands in consulting, delivered in under 40 minutes.
If you're managing people and want to do it better, this show is for you.
New episode every Tuesday.
Learn more about the show and Kerri at www.kerrimroberts.com.
Don't Waste the Chaos
Latest Episodes
AI Fear at Work: Technostress, FOBO, and What Leaders Must Say
You've heard of FOMO. This is FOBO: the fear of becoming obsolete. Add technostress, the exhaustion of a new tool every week, and you get employees who either refuse to touch AI or use it quietly on personal accounts and never tell you. Your AI...
AI Is Replacing Middle Managers? Here's What's Left to Lead
AI is coming for the clerical layer of management, not the leadership layer. Approving PTO, copying last year's review template, building the schedule, chasing status updates - that's the half of the job that's going away, and honestly, good. W...
How to Scale a Business Without Losing Your Culture | Kristin Oja
Culture doesn't scale a company - systems do. Kristin Oja built STAT Wellness from one location into a multi-state operation, and in this episode she's honest about what actually made it work: the people systems under the growth, not a bigger b...
Your Team Is Already Using AI. Do You Have a Policy?
A policy isn't permission - it's protection. Your team is already using AI; the only question is whether you've told them the rules. Someone may be pasting compensation data or a Social Security number into a chatbot right now, with no guardrai...
