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. Follow now. Your next level starts here.
Episodes
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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 the entrepreneurial mindset every corporate leader needs, and why the people who do everything right often stay stuck as the "understudy" instead of beco...
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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 difference between a Borrowed, Performed, and Owned leadership identity, and walks through exactly what happens the moment you stop performing for the p...
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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.
Tim Sharp sat inside the HR rooms of the world's largest tech and pharma companies for three decades. What he saw drove him to write a book so honest his lawyer warned it could get him fi...
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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, imposter syndrome, and fear of failure that quietly run even the most accomplished leaders from the inside out.
This is Episode 2 of ...
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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 what it really takes to take control of your career path starting with the moment Randi turned down a company-recommended assignment to protect what mat...
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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 question at the foundation of every coaching engagement she runs: Who are you as a leader when no one is watching?
Not your title, not your results, not your LinkedIn profile, but the leader who shows up when th...
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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 coach Bernadette Boas sits down with Felicia Harris Hoss, of Harris Hoss Mediations & Arbitration, a nationally recognized mediator with 30 years of trial law experience, to break down early dispute resolution a...
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The 5-Step Transformation Framework That Turns Your Biggest Leadership Gap Into Your Greatest Strength
About This Episode:
After 25 years in corporate America as VP, Chief Knowledge Officer, global team leader, Bernadette Boas was fired and labeled a tyrant. What she built out of that experience is a proven, five-step leadership transformation framework she has since used with 400+ exe...
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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 this episode, Ian joins Bernadette Boas to break down the real cost of employee disengagement, and it is not a soft number.
When fewer than 30%...
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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 y...
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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, executive coach Bernadette Boas sits down with Jackson Lynch, founder of Talent Sherpa, to examine why talented people consistently underperform when the architecture around them is broken.
Drawing on W. Edwards De...
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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 ready to stop surviving their schedule and start leading with intention.
What you'll learn:
- Why 63% of professionals are burning out...
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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 make the framework operational, and more importantly, why most leaders are missing all of them.
Norman argues that organizations underperform not because...
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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 direct about one of the most overlooked failures in leadership today: the gap between being available and being genuinely present.
Bernadette has coached l...
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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 down with Norman Wolfe, executive consultant, author, and founder of the Living Organization Framework, to challenge one of the most deeply embedded assump...
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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 that the problem is not one of effort, talent, or even budget, it's a design problem.
Most organizations have built their development infrastructur...
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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 Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host Bernadette Boas sits down with executive coach and leadership strategist Loretta Stagnitto to explore what it actually takes to ...
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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 Shedding the Corporate Bitch, host and executive coach Bernadette Boas draws on 16 years of direct work with executives, HR leaders, and management teams to expose the real reasons succes...
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How to Lead Through Constant Change Without Losing Your Best People
Your 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.
If the only thing holding your team together is inertia, this episode is going to hit different.
Our guest is Borja Cuan, of Four15 Digital, who has been o...
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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 in the abstract, motivational sense, but the practical, disciplined capability that separates leaders who develop and grow people from leaders who simply focus ...
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