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Randy Fisher on the One Question That Surfaces Every Hidden Problem in a Stalled Project (opens the original)
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In this episode of MustardHub Voices: Behind the Build, Curtis Forbes sits down with Randy Fisher, executive coach and career strategist, for a conversation about the thing most change initiatives are missing before they ever get to strategy: an honest conversation with the people who have to live through it. Randy's path ran from business journalism into a nonprofit career-transition role, where a director once pulled him aside and told him he needed to learn to listen with more than his ears.
Michaela Murray on Why Most So-Called People Problems Are Really Leadership and Infrastructure Problems (opens the original)
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In this episode of MustardHub Voices: Behind the Build, Curtis Forbes sits down with Michaela Murray, founder of Progress Amplified, for a conversation about the layer of company-building that gets ignored until something breaks: people infrastructure. Michaela works as an embedded fractional HR partner for growing companies, especially those moving fast enough to feel the strain of scale but not yet ready for a full internal HR leadership team. Her view is refreshingly clear-eyed. Most organiza
Cody Buyer on Why Franchising Still Runs on Trust, and Why the Companies That Forget That Do Not Last (opens the original)
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In this episode of MustardHub Voices: Behind the Build, Curtis Forbes sits down with Cody Buyer of Vendasta for a conversation about the part of franchise growth that technology can support but never replace: trust. Cody works at the intersection of local marketing, franchise systems, and multi-location growth, helping brands think through what it actually takes to support operators at scale. But this conversation quickly moves past software and into something far more foundational. In franchisi
DeDe Halfhill on Why Emotional Fluency Is Not a Soft Skill. It Is a Precision Tool. (opens the original)
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In this episode of MustardHub Voices: Behind the Build, Curtis Forbes sits down with DeDe Halfhill, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Georgetown-certified executive coach, and leadership advisor whose story is featured in Brené Brown's Dare to Lead and on 60 Minutes, for a conversation about the part of leadership that most organizations have systematically removed from their playbook and are now paying for in ways they cannot quite name. DeDe spent 25 years in the Air Force leading thousands of a
Kevin Plunkett: Why Your Compensation Strategy Is Only as Good as the Data Underneath It (opens the original)
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In this episode of MustardHub Voices: Behind the Build, Curtis Forbes sits down with Kevin Plunkett, Vice President of Partnerships at Salary.com, for a conversation about the infrastructure underneath compensation that most organizations have never thought carefully enough about. Kevin came to this world from an unlikely direction, spending years as a talent agent in Hollywood before his brother founded Salary.com and pulled him into building out what became one of the most widely used compensa
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