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
496 episodes
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...
7 Strategies for Powerhouse Succession Planning
Is your successor ready, today?Succession planning is one of the most universally acknowledged priorities in corporate America — and one of the most consistently neglected. In this episode of
The Non-Negotiable Leaders Miss and Why They End Up Micromanaging
How to Lead Through Constant Change Without Losing Your Best PeopleYour best people are being recruited right now. Not because they're unhappy, but because someone out there is persistent enough to keep calling until they say yes. <...
Stop Managing, Start Coaching: The Shift That Changes Everything
Are you a leader coach or a manager to your people?In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas, tackles one of the most consequential and most misunderstood leadership skills: coaching. Not coaching ...
Belonging Isn't Infrastructure. It's Infrastructure for Performance
Host Bernadette interviews organizational scientist and consultant Andrea D. Carter, creator of the validated Belonging First Methodology, on why workplaces confuse fitting in with belonging and how that fuels burnout. Andrea explai...
Hiring a Leadership Coach? Ask Them These 15 Questions.
The executive coaching industry is worth $20 billion — and yet most leaders and HR teams either skip the vetting process entirely or choose coaches for the wrong reasons. In this episode, Bernadette Boas lays out a powerful, practical framework...
Confident as F*ck: How to Stop Leading Through Fear
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Rachel Lawrence — confidence coach, speaker, and author of Confident as F*ck to talk about why so many professionals struggle with imposter syndrome, and what it actually takes to overcome it.Ra...
From Top Performer to True Leader: 5 Steps That Matter
60-80% of managers have ZERO formal leadership training. Is your organization creating accidental managers?In this episode, executive coach Bernadette Boas exposes the hidden crisis destroying teams across corporate America: unpre...
Leveraging Neurodivergent Brillance At Work
Have you ever been labeled too sensitive, too blunt, too intense, or too much at work?In this episode, leadership coach and author Rachel Radway joins us to unpack the truth abou...
Your Team Isn’t Underperforming, They’re Under-Directed
Most leaders don’t struggle with motivation—they struggle with clarity. In this episode, we break down why teams miss expectations even when goals seem “clear,” and how leaders unintentionally create confusion, overwhelm, and misalignment.<...
Ambition Isn’t The Problem. Misalignment Is!
What does it take to shift from goal-driven leadership to identity-led leadership? In this episode, we sit down with Bianca D’Alessio — star of HBO Max...
Rowing into Leadership: What Crossing an Ocean Can Teach Us
I am hooked! I can't stop watching and listening @TarynSmithMovement on Instagram.She is rowing across the Atlantic all by herself... she's on roughly, Day 44. What can a 24-year-old rowing solo across the Atlantic teach seas...
The Burnout Trap No One Talks About
Your job is not your identity—and believing it is may be costing you your energy, joy, and leadership longevity. In this episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, burnout coach and author ...
Anticipatory Leadership: Why Waiting to React Is the Most Expensive Decision Leaders Make
This should shock you! Only 25% of executives feel prepared to lead through disruptive change. In this episode, we explore why reactive leadership fails—and how anticipatory leadership equips leaders to navigate AI, automation, workforce shifts...
The Leadership Shift Millennials Are Forcing!
As you probably have already experienced, millennials have changed the rules of leadership.Sawubona Leadership can be the team development tool you've been looking for to elevate your connection and impact with your team. In ...
The 2026 Leadership Reset: Overwhelm Into Strategic Power
Drowning in meetings? Exhausted from your to-do list? This episode is your intervention. Discover why 94% of leaders are stressed, what's causing your burnout (hint: some of it's self-inflicted), and the exact frameworks to reclaim your time an...