Kan Talk Kulture with Kylie Anne Neal

About Kan Talk Kulture with Kylie Anne Neal

What if your company culture wasn’t just an HR buzzword but the secret weapon to scaling your business? Welcome to Kan Talk Kulture, the podcast that dives deep into how remarkable company cultures are intentionally built and how they can transform your team, your business, and your bottom line. Hosted by Kylie Anne Neal, founder of Kan Kulture and a passionate expert in people, culture, and leadership, this show is designed for business owners, CEOs, HR professionals, and anyone who believes that empowered people are the key to long-term success. Each episode features real conversations with inspiring CEOs, business leaders, and culture champions who share how they’ve shaped their team environments alongside case studies, practical tips, and bold questions that challenge the status quo. Whether you're looking to boost employee engagement, create a high-performance team, or align your people with your vision, this podcast will help you connect the dots between culture and growth. At Kan Kulture, we believe in Kindness, Understanding, Learning, Trust, Uniqueness, Respect, and Evolving, and this podcast brings those values to life. If you're ready to turn your team into your biggest brand ambassadors and create a workplace people love, this is the podcast for you. Find out more at www.kankulture.com

Publisher

Kylie Anne Neal

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Sept 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   EP37: Change Isn't The Problem, Uncertainty Is with Chris Phillips

   What if people aren't actually resistant to change, they're resistant to the uncertainty that comes with it? In this episode of Kan Talk Kulture, Kylie Anne Neal sits down with Chris Phillips, Founder and Managing Director of Grey Matta Solutions, to explore what really happens to people when organisations are constantly changing. Chris believes some of the biggest cultural problems inside organisations aren't culture problems at all. They're the consequences of poorly managed change. As the author of The Change Code and The Darkside of Greatness, Chris has spent years studying the intersection of organisational culture, behavioural neuroscience, leadership and performance. He explains why our brains crave certainty, why leaders should spend more time communicating what isn't changing, and why continually adding new priorities without taking anything away can quickly overwhelm a team. Chris also introduces his CALM framework -  Certainty, Awareness, Load Management and Movement, a practical approach designed to help leaders manage the human side of constant change. In this episode: Why uncertainty, not change itself, is often the real problem How poorly managed change can damage culture, trust and performance Why leaders need to manage workload and priorities during periods of change How the CALM framework helps teams navigate uncertainty Why leadership behaviour and communication matter more than ever during transformation Kylie and Chris also explore AI, workload and capacity, the pressure to continually do more, and why leaders don't need to have all the answers. Sometimes creating clarity, acknowledging uncertainty and helping people understand the next meaningful step is far more valuable. It's a practical conversation about how leaders can stop treating change as a one-off project and instead build organisations that use it to strengthen trust, resilience, performance and culture. Connect with Chris and learn more about Grey Matta Solutions: www.greymattasolutions.com (http://www.greymattasolutions.com/) Learn more about Kan Talk Kulture here: https://kankulture.com/ (https://kankulture.com/)

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   EP36: Belonging at Work Is Not a Perk, It’s Business Infrastructure

   Belonging at work isn’t about pizza lunches, team drinks or whether everyone gets along. It’s about whether people feel that they matter. In this episode of Kan Talk Kulture, Kylie Anne Neal challenges the idea that workplace belonging and team connection are “soft” culture initiatives and explains why they should be treated as business infrastructure. When people don’t feel secure in their place within a team, it can affect whether they speak up, share bad news, challenge decisions, ask for help or contribute beyond the boundaries of their role. Over time, that can show up in poorer information flow, slower problem detection, duplicated work, weaker decision-making and higher employee turnover. Kylie also explores the important differences between engagement, inclusion and belonging, why remote and hybrid work require more deliberate connection, and why traditional team-building activities won’t fix structural problems inside a workplace. Most importahttps://kankulture.com/ (https://kankulture.com/)ntly, this episode provides practical ways leaders can build belonging into the everyday way their teams operate. In this episode: • Why belonging should be treated as business infrastructure • The difference between engagement, inclusion and belonging • How belonging affects performance and employee retention • Why people need to feel their opinions genuinely count • How exclusion can happen without anyone deliberately excluding someone • Why proximity doesn’t automatically create belonging • The challenges of belonging in remote and hybrid teams • Why team building is a mechanism — not a culture fix • How onboarding can help new employees become part of the team • Designing meetings so everyone can contribute • Making employee contribution visible • Why leaders need belonging too • Practical ways to measure belonging within your workplace If you’re a founder, CEO, HR leader or people manager, there’s one question worth asking: Could every person in your organisation point to evidence from the last month that their presence changed something? If they can’t, it may be time to look more closely at how belonging is being built inside your workplace. 🎙️ Subscribe to Kan Talk Kulture for more practical conversations about leadership, HR and building safer, stronger and more trusted workplaces.

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   8 Sept 2026

   EP35: Why the Right People Change Everything in Business with Jade Howcroft

   Building a business can feel incredibly lonely, particularly when the decisions get bigger and there’s no obvious person to talk them through with. In this episode of Kan Talk Kulture, Kylie Anne Neal sits down with Jade Howcroft, Co-Founder and CRO of Mastr, to explore why the people you surround yourself with can have such a powerful impact on both your business and your life. Jade shares her journey from building Synergy Boards on the Gold Coast to entering a new chapter through acquisition and partnership. She opens up about starting the business while raising a young daughter, learning what scale actually meant to her, trusting her intuition and recognising that growth didn’t have to mean building a bigger version of a business she no longer enjoyed. The conversation also explores the difference between networking and genuine business advisory, why vulnerability and trust matter around the boardroom table, and why the right people will challenge what you think rather than simply tell you what you want to hear. Jade also shares what she learned when choosing a business partner, including why due diligence needs to go well beyond the numbers and why shared values, trust and understanding how someone operates as a human being matter just as much as the commercial opportunity. In this episode: • Why running a business can become incredibly isolating • The difference between networking and genuine advisory • Why vulnerability creates better business conversations • How Jade built Synergy Boards around trust and authenticity • Why knowing exactly who your customer is matters • Learning to trust your intuition in business • Moving from solo founder to acquisition and partnership • Why scaling should support the life and business you actually want • Finding people whose strengths complement your own • Why business partnership due diligence goes far beyond the P&L • Creating environments where founders can be challenged without ego About Jade Howcroft Jade Howcroft is Co-Founder and CRO of Mastr, an ecosystem for scaling business owners built around advisory, execution and community . After founding Synergy Boards on the Gold Coast, Jade has built her reputation around creating rooms where business owners can drop the ego, tell the truth, go deeper and surround themselves with people who understand the realities of building and scaling a business. As Jade puts it, they don’t teach from the front of the room, they build the room. Find out more: synergyboards.com.au (https://www.synergyboards.com.au/) To learn more about Kan Talk Kulture, visit kankulture.com (https://kankulture.com/)

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