Corey-osity Unleashed

About Corey-osity Unleashed

Corey-osity Unleashed isn’t your typical leadership podcast - no corporate fluff, no HR jargon. Just raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about how we can (and should) treat our people in today’s messy, complex workplaces. With our guests, we get curious by challenging the norm and questioning the status quo, exploring and unleashing bold new ways to think and act about people and work. Expect tough truths, honest insights, a few laughs, and maybe even a well-placed swear word or two—because let’s be real, our people deserve better, and our businesses can’t afford to keep getting it wrong

Publisher

Debra & Ken Corey

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Mar 2025

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Corey-osity Unleashed with Jenni Fields

   Nobody Believes You: Jenni Field on Why Credibility Beats Authenticity What if "just be yourself" is the worst advice a leader can take? Jenni Field had a list of nine things she thought made a leader credible. Her dad told her nobody cared about any of it, especially men. So she went and asked. Her research turned up a surprise: credibility matters far more to followers than it does to leaders. Jenni's case against authenticity starts with power. Snap at someone on a bad day and it lands ten times harder because of where you sit. She's been thrown out of a leader's office herself, then got the apology weeks later: "I forget the weight of my words." Debra adds the leader who chatted about private schools while his team worried about the cost of living. Ken and Debra then work through Jenni's eight practices of credible leadership: why "put yourself in their shoes" doesn't work, why trust is built by not cancelling the one-to-one five minutes before it starts, why every leader needs a vision but nobody needs to be Steve Jobs, why introversion is no excuse and why "we're like a family" is a warning sign. She explains why leadership isn't for everyone, the difference between likable and liked, and a worrying number: the gap between how leaders think they communicate change and how employees experience it has grown from about 13% to 30%. You'll leave with one practice that ties all eight together: make the time for your people, and be present when you do. Jenni Field is the founder of Redefining Communications, author of Nobody Believes You and Influential Internal Communication, a former CIPR president, co-host of the Frequency Podcast and creator of the Leading with Credibility course. Find her at jennifield.com, or on LinkedIn and Instagram. KEYWORDS Jenni Field, Redefining Communications, Nobody Believes You, credibility, credible leadership, authenticity in leadership, power dynamics, empathy vs sympathy, trust, transparency, integrity, vision vs visionary, introverted leaders, likable vs liked, internal communication, middle managers, Bad Bosses Ruin Lives CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:52 Welcome, meet Jenni Field 02:23 From internal comms to credibility 05:00 The research: nine traits and a sceptical dad 07:23 Followers vs leaders, gender and age 08:57 Why authenticity isn't the answer 09:49 The weight of your words 12:02 Balance, not overindexing 12:54 The private school and the office move 13:50 The eight practices of credible leadership 14:53 What happened to the ninth? 16:04 Empathy, sympathy and compassion 18:56 Why "put yourself in their shoes" doesn't work 19:25 The boulder on the mountain 20:29 Nobody trains managers in empathy 21:00 Trust lives in everyday moments 22:05 What transparency looks like 23:21 The trust bank 23:50 Time is at the centre of bad bossing 24:19 Every leader needs a vision 26:59 "I didn't want to be a manager" 27:19 Leadership isn't for everyone 29:04 A safe way to try leadership 29:34 Likable vs liked 31:54 When feedback scores are too high 32:32 "We're like a family" is a warning sign 32:59 Integrity: intention vs reality 36:17 Nobody plans to be a bad boss 36:43 Middle managers cut, time squeezed 37:31 When it goes wrong 38:13 KPIs vs time for your people 38:52 Tasks vs relationships, and can AI help? 40:07 One takeaway: make the time, be present 41:22 Where to find Jenni

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Corey-osity Unleashed with Richard Turner

   Would a coach ever send a sick player onto the pitch? Never. So why do we do it at work every single week? Rich Turner nearly got kicked out of school. Sport saved him, the gym floor taught him that every PT is half personal trainer, half personal therapist, and a fascination with why people do what they do turned him into an executive coach. At 36 he's younger than most people in his field, and he thinks that's exactly why leaders keep hiring him: he coaches from human performance, not from the corporate playbook. His first lesson from elite sport is the one business keeps ignoring. Athletes obsess over recovery because if they're not on the field, they can't perform. Corporate life just goes go go, nine to eight, week after week. Ken owns up to the 80-hour weeks. Rich's verdict: sprint when the moment calls for it, but nobody can sprint every week. Then Rich walks Ken and Debra through his Leadership Playbook, six pillars that start with knowing who you are (Ken sets him a 30-second challenge, and he doesn't make it). You'll hear why leading and managing are only two-thirds of being the person in charge, why nobody likes being told what to do, why you can't play a round of golf with just a putter, and why Rich thinks we've all become way too serious at work. Ken explains how office banter helped convince him and Debra to stay in the UK, and Debra has the HR warning ready, complete with the great chocolate Easter egg debate. You'll leave with two ideas Rich says are really one: create clarity in everything, and stay fascinated with why people are the way they are. Rich Turner is an executive coach and founder of LP Revolution, a former personal trainer with a degree in sports science and coaching, and a high-level field hockey player. He's currently offering a free coaching session on one of the Leadership Playbook topics. Find him on LinkedIn (Rich Turner) or email richard@lprevolution.co.uk. KEYWORDS Rich Turner, LP Revolution, Leadership Playbook, executive coaching, performance coaching, recovery and performance, burnout, wellbeing at work, lessons from sport, elite sport and business, managing pressure, high-performing teams, self-awareness, authentic leadership, personal values, leadership styles, coaching leadership style, ownership and accountability, communication skills, understanding your people, psychological safety, fun at work, workplace banter, clarity, curiosity, learning mindset CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:52 Welcome, meet Rich Turner 02:22 From nearly kicked out of school to sports science 04:54 Personal trainer, personal therapist 06:15 From wellbeing company to executive coach 08:42 A 36-year-old coach with a non-corporate background 09:44 Cricket, hockey and a beer at Lord's 10:57 Lesson 1 from sport: you can't perform without recovery 12:26 The New York Yankees question 14:04 Lessons 2 and 3: managing pressure and teamwork 15:17 Effort in moments, not constantly 17:06 The Leadership Playbook, born in a coaching session 17:49 The six pillars 19:34 Pillar 1: Who we are, and the 30-second challenge 21:35 Ken: who I am keeps changing 22:53 What you do vs who you are: values and fit 24:13 How we lead (and the opposite of a bad boss) 25:29 Lead, manage, coach: different clubs in the bag 26:51 Nobody likes being told what to do 28:00 Communication: connection and clarity 28:21 People are way too serious at work 30:21 Office banter and why Ken and Debra stayed in the UK 31:41 Psychological safety makes the fun possible 33:03 Fun at the right time: the Easter egg debate 33:59 One thing to do differently 35:05 Create clarity: goals, communication, assumptions 36:10 Be fascinated with why people do what they do 36:59 Curiosity is never finished 37:58 Kids at the "why" stage 38:27 Learning leadership day by day 39:41 Where does a young coach get credibility? 40:54 Where to find Rich

3. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Corey-osity Unleashed with Helen Beedham

   Hold On to Your Best People by Setting Them Free: Helen Beedham on People Glue "CEOs don't care about retention anymore." That's what a CEO friend told Helen Beedham. Everyone's slashing headcount, betting on AI, planning for one person where they used to need a hundred. So Helen went and asked them. The CEOs, COOs and chief people officers she interviewed told her the opposite: AI or not, losing the people who carry the skills and knowledge the business runs on is still one of the most expensive things that can happen to them. And if AI swallows the entry-level jobs, where exactly are tomorrow's managers going to come from? Her answer to "what makes people stay when they could leave tomorrow?" is freedom. Not a free-for-all: four specific freedoms, inside clear tram lines, with lots of accountability. Autonomy over how, when and where you work. Room to grow. The freedom to speak up and be yourself. And freedom from the hamster wheel of work about work, so you can do something that actually matters. Ken asks how many of the four you need before people stop walking. The answer depends on who's asking, and the gender split in Helen's research is not the one you'd guess. Then there's the bill: a 100-person company on an average 50,000 salary, at average UK turnover, is losing roughly 1.75 million a year. That's before counting the knowledge nobody wrote down, or the day Debra's office ran out of coffee because the one person who bought it had left. You'll leave with a way to price your own turnover, a quick diagnostic for the forces quietly killing freedom in your organisation, a weekly ritual that takes the stigma out of failure, and the one investment Helen says pays back more than any other. Helen Beedham is an organisational expert, host of the Business of Being Brilliant podcast, and author of two Amazon best-sellers: The Future of Time (Business Book Awards People, Culture and Management Book of the Year) and People Glue: Hold On to Your Best People by Setting Them Free (January 2026). Find her on LinkedIn (Helen J. Beedham) and at helenbeedham.com. KEYWORDS employee retention, People Glue, Helen Beedham, freedom at work, four freedoms, autonomy, career growth, self-expression, meaningful work, work about work, high trust culture, accountability, cost of employee turnover, talent retention, AI and jobs, talent crunch, manager development, fear of failure, learning culture, psychological safety, sticky organisation, anti-freedom forces, Edelman Trust Barometer, job hopping, employee engagement CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:52 Welcome, meet Helen Beedham 02:23 A career of planned and unplanned turns 03:52 Week 12 at Harrods: interpreting for the chairman in Cuba 05:22 Why write People Glue, and why now 07:51 Will AI really empty the desks? 09:31 Big tech layoffs and the coming talent crunch 11:16 The sticky monster: when glue works against you 12:23 People Glue vs Sticky People: high trust, high freedom 14:22 What freedom at work is (and isn't): the four freedoms 16:36 Why freedom matters: the retention business case 18:50 How many freedoms do people need? 21:29 Why leaders get it wrong: letting go of control 24:35 How to win over leaders who don't get it 26:08 The 1.75 million cost of turnover 28:05 Engagement multiplies the ROI 28:45 The hidden job description that walks out the door 31:54 Going off script 32:21 Diagnosing the anti-freedom forces 37:43 Fear of failure and the stumble of the week 41:18 One tip for leaders: invest in your managers 43:50 Where to find Helen

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• Grace Judson
• Claude Silver
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