In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Colleen Affeldt, Vice Chair at Corient Wealth Management and a lifelong student of why people do what they do.

In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Matt Kocanda, office managing partner for the Chicago office of Corient and, by Deb's own description, her collaborator in crime for more than ten years.

In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Eric Schoonveld, Partner and Co-Founder of The Peak Law Group and a nearly two-decade friend and client, for a conversation about what it actually costs to treat culture as a real priority instead of a talking point.

In this episode, Deb Knupp welcomes back Libby Baney Burstein, a partner at Faegre Drinker where she has practiced for nearly twenty years in public policy across the pharmacy and FDA space, working to keep unsafe products away from the people they would harm.

In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Beth Sherman, a seven time Emmy award winning comedy writer turned keynote speaker and the creator of Audience-First Communication. After thirty years writing for the Late Show with David Letterman, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ellen, and the Academy Awards, Beth now teaches lawyers, executives, and professional speakers a single discipline she learned in comedy clubs: think about the person receiving the message as much as the message itself.

In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with Joanna Meyer, founder and executive director of Women, Work, and Calling at the Denver Institute for Faith and Work and author of the book Women, Work, and Calling.

In this conversation, Deb and Andrew Cohn explore leadership not as a performance exercise, but as a deeply human practice rooted in reflection, intentionality, and presence.

In this episode, Deb sits down with Dr. Mikah Sellers, founder and CEO of Veteran Brands, to explore a question that quietly sits underneath nearly every conversation about the future of work: what happens to humanity when machines begin to outpace us?

In this episode, Deb Knupp sits down with longtime mentor and HX Ally Dean Carter, a four-time CHRO turned first-time CEO and co-author of Employee Experience Design: How to Co-create Work Where People and Organizations Thrive.

In this episode, Deb sits down with Nehal Gandhi, founder of Parinamas, to talk about what the AI era is really asking of us, not as technologists, but as humans.

In this episode, Deb sits down with Jen Marr, CEO of Showing Up and author of Lifting Up: The Transforming Power of Supportive Leadership, to talk about what it really takes to lead people well when life is messy, work is relentless, and uncertainty is no longer the exception.

In this episode, Deb sits down with Armond D’Inverno, former co-founder of Bellas & D’Inverno Foltz, to talk about what it really takes to build a business that can outlast its founder. Not just in terms of valuation or scale, but in terms of culture, people, and the kind of leadership that creates room for others to grow.

In this conversation, Deb welcomes HX Ally Suzanne Massel to explore what happens when achievement gives way to reflection, and when reflection reshapes how we lead, work, and connect.

In this episode, Deb sits down with Kevin Wood, a leading healthcare attorney and longtime friend, for a conversation that’s been a decade in the making.

In this episode, Deb is joined by attorney and HX ally Gretchen Miller Busch for a conversation that may change how you think about your career especially if you’re successful on paper, but quietly exhausted in real life.

In this episode, Deb sits down with longtime collaborator and design strategist Andrew Benedict Nelson for a conversation that quietly reframes how we think about leadership altogether. This isn’t a discussion about becoming a “better boss” or adopting the latest leadership framework. It’s about something more foundational: realizing that most of what we experience at work was designed—and therefore, can be redesigned.

In this episode, Dr. Deb Gorton joins Deb to explore the loneliness epidemic, the power of cognitive dissonance, and why human flourishing at work starts with real relationships—not just ping pong tables and perks.

In this episode, workplace wellbeing expert Ali Schroer joins Deb to explore how we can build thriving, human-first workplaces without sacrificing performance—or pretending everything’s fine when it’s not.

In this episode, Deb sits down with Alycia Sutor, Managing Director at GrowthPlay and fellow HX Collective ally, to explore why work has become the dominant space where human flourishing must be prioritized—and what happens when it isn’t.

In this episode, Deb is joined by Rick Wellock and Amy Wellock Staggs of the Wellock Group—an intergenerational coaching duo united by their mission to humanize leadership and elevate the human experience.