Pull up a chair. Pour a bourbon or grab a coffee—whatever helps you slow down. This is Office Therapy with Dr. Brad Shuck, professor, researcher, and believer that work should be a place where people feel seen. Each week, Brad unpacks leadership, trust, burnout, and belonging with honest insight and research-backed reflection to help you build a healthier, more human workplace. Work doesn’t have to be toxic—it just has to start with a conversation.
Office Therapy
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Pull up a chair. Pour a bourbon or grab a coffee—whatever helps you slow down. This is Office Therapy with Dr. Brad Shuck, professor, researcher, and believer that work should be a place where people feel seen. Each week, Brad unpacks leadership, trust, burnout, and belonging with honest insight and research-backed reflection to help you build a healthier, more human workplace. Work doesn’t have to be toxic—it just has to start with a conversation.
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Recent Episodes
June 10, 2026
Why human skills matter more — not less — in an age of AI.
<p><br></p><p>Sitting in a crowded airport, surrounded by people connected to every device imaginable, one thought wouldn't go away: we've never been more connected to information, and never more disconnected from each other.</p><p>This episode of Office Therapy sits with that tension. As AI makes answers easy and information abundant, connection is becoming scarce — and scarcity makes it valuable. Drawing on years of engagement research and the story of a highly capable leader whose team was struggling, we unpack a simple but uncomfortable truth: people don't follow information. They follow connection. They give their best where they feel seen, safe, and like they belong.</p><p>Empathy. Trust. Presence. Listening. The things that can't be automated, outsourced, or generated with a prompt. If you lead a team, the question worth reflecting on isn't how much information people are receiving — it's how connected they feel. If this resonated, share it, subscribe, and tell us what to explore next.</p>
May 8, 2026
When Your Boss Is Less Engaged Than You Are
<p>Everyone's talking about the Gallup 2026 headline — global engagement at 20%. Almost no one is talking about the finding that matters more: manager engagement has fallen 9 points in three years, wiping out nearly half a decade of gains. Female managers dropped 7. Managers under 35 dropped 5. And for the first time in Gallup's tracking history, managers are now less engaged than the individual contributors they lead.</p><p>In this episode of Office Therapy, Dr. Brad Shuck breaks down why this is a structural signal, not a people problem — and why the billion-dollar cost of manager disengagement is the product of a measurement error most organizations can actually fix. The difference between satisfaction and engagement. Why training is the wrong response. And four small, no-budget shifts you can make this week to start changing the conditions on your own team — starting with your calendar.</p>
April 22, 2026
I'm not burned out. I'm designed-out.
<p>"I'm not burned out. I'm designed-out."</p><p>That's what a top operator told her CPO at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday. And Dr. Brad Shuck can't stop thinking about it.</p><p>In this episode of Office Therapy, Brad unpacks why the burnout conversation is missing the point in 2026. Drawing on new Berkeley research showing AI intensifies work instead of reducing it, and Gallup's April 2026 finding that manager engagement has collapsed to 22%, Brad makes the case that what leaders are calling a people problem is actually a design problem.</p><p>You'll hear:</p><ul><li>Why "task expansion" is the hidden cost of your AI rollout</li><li>The brutal math behind today's average manager carrying 12 direct reports</li><li>Why compassion without systems burns out your best leaders</li><li>Three moves to fix it: the Compassion Load Index, an emotional routing table, and Strategic Slowness</li></ul><p>If your highest performers are quietly becoming your highest flight risks, this one's for you.</p><p><br></p>
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