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I’m Wendy Brand, Your Culture Coach, dedicated to supporting people-first leaders. Each week we dive into strategies and insights to help you build a workplace where employees feel valued, motivated, and inspired. From fostering tribal values and improving core processes to developing inclusive communities and responsive listening strategies, we cover it all.
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#132 Personal and Organizational Misalignment
Leadership isn’t supposed to feel this heavy.
Yet so many capable, driven leaders are exhausted. Carrying everything, fixing everything, and feeling constant pressure just to keep things moving. In this episode of The Culture Coach Podcast, Wendy Brand breaks down the real root cause behind burnout, team friction, and fragile workplace culture: misalignment.
Drawing from her own leadership journey and years of consulting with organizations, Wendy explores how personal misalignment shows up in leadership behavior — and how it quietly shapes (and strains) organizational culture.
You’ll learn:
- What leading without alignment actually looks like day to day
- How misalignment fuels micromanagement, disengagement, and burnout
- Why culture initiatives stall even when values are clearly defined
- The connection between personal alignment and sustainable organizational culture
- What begins to shift when leaders realign with clarity, values, and intention
Wendy also shares what aligned leadership creates instead — clarity over control, ownership over dependence, and systems that reinforce culture instead of constantly fixing behavior.
If leadership feels harder than it should…
If culture feels fragile or exhausting to maintain…
If you know you’re capable of more clarity, impact, and ease…
This episode will help you understand why — and what to do about it.
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The Culture Strategy Lab also opens the week of February 16th for leaders ready to begin operationalizing intentional culture.
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