Join Jason for a thoughtful and deeply moving conversation with Dr. Jenna Sage, Director of Organizational Wellness and Well Being, Ultimate Medical Academy, and executive coach, author, and passionate advocate for whole-person employee support.

Jenna discusses how organizations can truly support employees navigating grief, loss, and caregiving. Having walked alongside a loved one through terminal illness, Jenna knows firsthand the weight leaders often carry in silence. She believes it’s time for organizations to normalize conversations around loss, bereavement, and mental wellness, by design, not just in reaction.

Key highlights from this episode include:

👉 Start normalizing discussions about loss, grief, caregiving, and mental health at work.

👉 As a manager, you’re not expected to be a therapist; what’s needed is grace, flexibility, and understanding, not answers or solutions.

👉 Respect and support boundaries, understand that networking events or after-hours obligations might not be a fit for caregivers, and that’s not a lack of commitment.

👉 Rethink bereavement that true compassion looks like flexibility and recognizing the many forms of loss an employee might face.

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Website: https://www.beself.ist/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenna-sage-phd-bcba/

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#Leadership #PeopleFirst #CompanyCulture #FeedbackLoop #WorkplaceExcellence

Join Jason to learn about building an award-winning culture through storytelling in this episode with John McHugh, Vice President of External Affairs at Kwik Trip.

John shares how Kwik Trip has harnessed the power of storytelling to create low turnover, high morale, and exceptional customer experiences, all in an industry notorious for high attrition. He shares practices for how they have scaled a culture of exceptional service and customer commitment within an organization of 39,000 “co-workers”.

Key highlights from this episode include:

👉 Practical interview questions that find candidates hardwired for compassion and purpose.

👉 Why every meeting at Kwik Trip starts with an emotional real-world story and how this practice fuels engagement at every level.

👉 How sharing thousands of unsolicited customer compliments each year has become the secret sauce behind both customer loyalty and employee satisfaction.

👉 How Kwik Trip’s profit-sharing and recognition programs help every employee feel like an owner, resulting in industry-leading retention rates.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mchugh-37056513/

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#Leadership #PeopleFirst #CompanyCulture #FeedbackLoop #WorkplaceExcellence

In this mini-episode, Jason announces the launch of the Human Connection Study, a new research initiative created in partnership with Ingenuity Design.

This ambitious project aims to understand how people today are experiencing connection and disconnection at work and in everyday life.

Jason shares why he feels this study is both necessary and vitally important. And, he asks for your help.

In the episode, Jason invites you to take the Human Connection Survey and then share it with your friends and colleagues.

Take the sruvey here: https://www.thehumanconnectionstudy.com/

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