Welcome to The Value-Powered Leadership Podcast, hosted by <b>Stacey Chillemi </b>and featuring <b>David Cohen</b>, global consultant, author, and trusted advisor on ethics, leadership, and organizational culture.<br /><br />This podcast cuts through corporate fluff to explore what truly drives sustainable success: alignment between values, behavior, and leadership.<br /><br />David brings over 30 years of experience helping organizations around the world, including healthcare systems, Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies, uncover and realign their core values.<br /><br />You'll hear:<br /><ul><li>Real-world case studies</li><li>Contrarian insights</li><li>Practical strategies</li><li>How to hire for the perfect fit</li><li>Leading with authenticity</li><li>Preservation of company culture during change</li><li>Confronting the ethical challenges posed by AI in recruitment</li></ul>Whether you’re a business leader, HR professional, consultant, or someone navigating a complex workplace culture, this show is your backstage pass to what actually makes or breaks teams, morale, and performance.<br />
Value-Powered Leadership
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Podcast Overview
Welcome to The Value-Powered Leadership Podcast, hosted by <b>Stacey Chillemi </b>and featuring <b>David Cohen</b>, global consultant, author, and trusted advisor on ethics, leadership, and organizational culture.<br /><br />This podcast cuts through corporate fluff to explore what truly drives sustainable success: alignment between values, behavior, and leadership.<br /><br />David brings over 30 years of experience helping organizations around the world, including healthcare systems, Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies, uncover and realign their core values.<br /><br />You'll hear:<br /><ul><li>Real-world case studies</li><li>Contrarian insights</li><li>Practical strategies</li><li>How to hire for the perfect fit</li><li>Leading with authenticity</li><li>Preservation of company culture during change</li><li>Confronting the ethical challenges posed by AI in recruitment</li></ul>Whether you’re a business leader, HR professional, consultant, or someone navigating a complex workplace culture, this show is your backstage pass to what actually makes or breaks teams, morale, and performance.<br />
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June 19, 2026
Skill Got Them Hired. Values Got Them Fired.
<i><b>You walk through your own company and realize the standards you set early on have quietly eroded, and no single decision caused it. </b></i><br /><br />The cultures that actually hold are built by leaders who hire for values, reward how people get results, and refuse to trade long-term identity for short-term numbers.<br /><br /><b>David Cohen</b>, founder of <i>DS Cohen and Associates</i> and bestselling author of Selecting the Best, has guided companies like <i>Michelin</i> and <i>Boehringer</i> in building cultures that last.<br /><br />His own story through ADHD, dyslexia, and cancer gives every lesson real weight. Listen and stop treating culture as something you announce.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><b>🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN </b><br />🌐 Website: <a href="https://sagltd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sagltd.com/ </a><br />💼 LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ </a><br /><br />📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ </a><br /><br />Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ </a><br /><br />📩 Email: david@sagltd.com<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
June 5, 2026
Generational Stereotypes Are Costing Your Team
<i><b>Managing your team by generation is quietly driving out your best people. David Cohen explains what actually shapes performance — and it isn't birth year. </b></i><br /><br />Host <b>Lisa Urbanski </b>sits down with <b>David Cohen</b>, founder of <i>DS Cohen & Associates</i> and author of <i>Selecting the Best</i>, to break down why generational labels are lazy leadership — and what to read instead.<br /><br /><b>You'll learn: </b><br />📣 Why generational labels backfire on leaders<br /><br />🧠 Traits vs behaviors — what predicts performance<br /><br />🔄 Why life stage beats birth year<br /><br />🚪 How stereotypes push out top talent<br /><br />🤝 Why trust and respect aren't the same <br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><b>🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN </b><br />🌐 Website: <a href="https://sagltd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sagltd.com/ </a><br />💼 LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ </a><br /><br />📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ </a><br /><br />Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ </a><br /><br />📩 Email: david@sagltd.com<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
May 25, 2026
Why Your Employees Are Burnt Out — Even When Engagement Is High
If your team is burnt out, quietly quitting, or emotionally checked out — your engagement score won't tell you why. That's the blind spot this episode is here to fix.<br /><br />Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with organizational consultant and author David Cohen to unpack the difference between employee experience and employee engagement — and why confusing the two is silently damaging your culture, your retention, and your bottom line. <br /><br />You'll learn:<br />🔍 Why high engagement scores can mask a deeply broken experience<br />📋 How surveys are gamed — and what the data is really telling you<br />🧠 The experience pyramid that drives real loyalty and performance<br />🤝 Why leadership owns this problem — not HR<br />🤖 How AI is quietly isolating your workforce<br />✅ 5 pillars of employee experience you can start using today <br /><br />📍 Catch David live at SHRM 2026 — Pre-Conference Workshop, Orlando Tuesday, June 16 · 8:00 AM–12:00 PM EDT Register: <a href="https://registration.events.shrm.org/flow/shrm/shrm26/public-catalog/page/catalog/session/1768332959523001Vxhq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://registration.events.shrm.org/flow/shrm/shrm26/public-catalog/page/catalog/session/1768332959523001Vxhq</a><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><b>🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN </b><br />🌐 Website: <a href="https://sagltd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sagltd.com/ </a><br />💼 LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-cohen-0b0191/ </a><br /><br />📚 Leadership Courage Series: Part 1 – Having the Courage to Live Your Values: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-one-having-courage-live-your-values-worth-david-s-cohen-ncdqc/ </a><br /><br />Part 2 – Building the Courage to Live Your Values:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-two-building-courage-live-your-values-david-s-cohen-lm7nc/ </a><br /><br />📩 Email: david@sagltd.com<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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