Yolanda Fraction

304: Joyful Workplaces with Yolanda Fraction

Most leaders will tell you they care about culture. Far fewer can tell you what it costs them when culture fails. Yolanda Fraction can. As an organizational development consultant, doctoral student in IO psychology, and author of Joyful Workplaces, she has spent her career translating the soft stuff into hard outcomes. Turnover. Absenteeism. A workforce…

“Be More Human” Is Bad Advice

“Be More Human” Is Bad Advice by Laurie Ruettimann Everyone has a hot take about AI and your career. Most of them are wrong. The current favorite is “be more human.” Thought leaders, career coaches, and the LinkedIn content machine say the path to surviving the AI economy is to lean into your humanity. Ask…

Ken Stern

303: Healthy to 100 with Ken Stern

Longevity expert Ken Stern joins Punk Rock HR to talk about what helps people live longer, healthier lives and why relationships play such an important role. Ken is the author of Healthy to 100, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and chair of The Longevity Project. His research explores how social connection,…

Karen Fleshman

302: Becoming Trustworthy: Race and Solidarity at Work with Karen Fleshman

Karen Fleshman works at the intersection of race and power. As the founder of the Interracial Sisterhood Coalition, she brings white women together to examine how conditioning, proximity to power, and institutional loyalty can reinforce racial hierarchy — often unintentionally. Karen’s career began in immigrant rights and youth workforce development. But after listening closely to…