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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Shedding the Corporate Bitch
Why Your Team Ignores You and What to Fix First
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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 absence of even one will unravel everything else.
If you have a team member who ignores direction, meetings that go nowhere, team members who won't give you feedback, or people who agree to your face and do nothing afterward, this conversation will arm you with strategies to change that.
Bernadette draws on firsthand observations from dozen of businesses and her work with senior corporate leaders to show what high-performing teams actually look like and to give you a clear, step-by-step process for building one.
This is not a feel-good leadership episode. It is a working framework you can start applying this week.
What You Will Learn -
• How to create an environment where your team can have honest, productive conflict without it becoming personal
• Why chasing 100% agreement is the wrong goal
• What accountability truly means (and why reframing it as 'reminding' changes everything)
• How to involve your team in defining the culture they're being asked to live in
• The five-step process for moving from a fragmented team to a high-performing one
Subscribe - If this episode gave you something to work with, subscribe to Shedding the Corporate B!tch on YouTube at @ShedtheCorpBitchTV. New episodes every week for executives, HR leaders, and corporate professionals who are done settling for the team they have and ready to build the one they need.
