Shift Happens Podcast with Kamila Adamatti is a leadership and business podcast for CEOs, founders, and executives navigating growth, transformation, and change.
Expect real leadership lessons, hard-earned insights, and practical conversations about people, strategy, culture, growth, and transformation.
New episodes of Shift Happens Podcast every week.
How I Built a Market Leader from Scratch | Mark Steiner | Shift Happens Podcast
He had no MBA, no interest in being a businessman, and said no to the VCs. Twenty years later, his company is profitable and a market leader. Learn why company culture comes before profit when you build a team that can't wait for Monday.
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1 Oct 2026
How He Builds a High-Performance Team Using Military Tactics | Chris Hallberg
Chris Hallberg, the business coach known as the Business Sergeant, has a blunt diagnosis for companies that say they have a team accountability problem: they usually have a people problem. A military veteran who teaches the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), Chris argues that most businesses are very good at looking committed while tolerating the behavior that quietly drives their best people out the door. In his view, business culture is set by the worst behavior leadership is willing to accept.
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You'll learn:
◼️ Why A players can do about twice the work of C players for only 1.2 to 1.6 times the pay
◼️ Why you can't hold people accountable until they can tell the truth and disagree openly
◼️ Why every company is a bus and what happens to your business when people are allowed to write their own vision
◼️ How to build a weekly scorecard around activity, not just results
◼️ What to do when your team is handed a goal they know is impossible
◼️ Why the fastest way to find out what's wrong with a stuck business is a gap analysis between what the owner believes and what their people say
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Connect with Kamila: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamila-adamatti/
Follow me: https://www.instagram.com/kamilaadamatti/
Follow Shift Happens Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/shifthappens.podcast/
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @shifthappenspodcastwithkamila
Advertise your brand on the Shift Happens Podcast: kamila@toneupbusiness.com
3 Sept 2026
The Exact Framework to Fix Your Team's Performance | Alex Zocche
Alex Zocche has spent 21 years leading sales and operations teams across more than 40 countries. When he inherited a business unit with three straight years of no profit, a disengaged team, and almost no adoption of the company's CRM, he didn't start with a new strategy. He started by sitting down with every single employee and asking what they actually thought was broken.
In this episode, Alex breaks down the Four Disciplines of Execution, the framework he used to turn that underperforming unit into one of the company's strongest, 30% above an aggressive, double-digit growth plan within a year. The conversation lands on the real lesson behind the turnaround: underperformance is rarely about skill. It's about behavior, trust, and whether a leader actually believes in the system they're asking their team to follow.
Inside a recent episode
Why Ego Is Your Biggest Enemy | Jennifer Jeronimo
Published 5 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because my senior managers were not happy with me, right? They were like, well, why didn't you tell us this? And why did you do it? You were the one, Jen, who said that you were going to do this all in one shot. You didn't think it was a problem. So I learned a lot of really good lessons. I learned, one, don't bite off more than you can chew. Make sure you're listening to your team and you truly understand what their concerns are and either have a way to mitigate it or at least be aware and be on the lookout for it. I mean, it was very early in my career. Luckily, it didn't hamstring me too much. […]
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