20 May 453: The Hidden Beliefs That Are Shaping Your Team Culture: An Interview with Workplace Culture Expert & Author Dr. Jessica Kriegel
What if your team’s biggest problem… ISN’T behavior? What if it’s belief?
Seriously. Because in this conversation, workplace culture expert Dr. Jessica Kriegel drops one of the most important leadership truths we’ve heard on DREAM THINK DO in a LONG time:
“People act in alignment with their beliefs.” BOOM.
And once you hear her unpack that idea… you’ll never think about leadership, accountability, workplace culture, or even your own behavior the same way again.
Jessica is the Chief Strategy Officer at Culture Partners, former VP of Workplace Culture at Oracle, keynote speaker, podcast host, and co-author of the upcoming book Surrender to Lead.
She’s spent years helping organizations—from Fortune 100 companies to hospitals to manufacturing plants—transform culture from the inside out.
But what makes this conversation so powerful isn’t just the research… It’s the honesty.
Because Jessica doesn’t just talk about culture. She talks about fear. Control. Burnout. Micromanagement. Faith. Surrender. And the exhausting pressure so many leaders quietly carry every single day.
Including a moment where she made a radically transparent leadership decision during company-wide layoffs… and it completely changed the outcome. (Seriously… this story alone is worth the listen.)
This episode is practical, deeply human, and packed with powerful insights on:
- Why most leaders are stuck in “The Action Trap”…
- How fear quietly shapes workplace behavior…
- And why surrender, not control, often leads to the BEST results…
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed trying to lead people, influence culture, or carry responsibility well… this conversation is going to hit home.
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➤ What We Cover in This Conversation
Here’s the good news. This conversation isn’t just theoretical.
Dr. Jessica Kriegel shares:
- practical tools for changing beliefs
- how fear silently shapes workplace behavior
- why most accountability systems actually backfire
- and how leaders can create cultures rooted in ownership, trust, courage, and love instead of fear and control
You’ll also hear:
- the incredible hospital story that transformed behavior from 47% to 97%
- why “pizza parties” don’t fix culture
- the leadership dangers of micromanagement
- how surrender creates BETTER results
- and Jessica’s simple but powerful SHIFT framework for leading through uncertainty
This conversation is packed with practical wisdom for entrepreneurs, executives, coaches, team leaders… and honestly… humans in general.
Because whether you lead a company, a team, a family, or simply yourself…
Your beliefs shape your actions.
And your actions shape your results.
➤ Connect with Jessica
🌐 Jessica’s Website: Jessica Kriegel Official Website
🔗 LinkedIn: Jessica Kriegel on LinkedIn
📘 Book: Surrender to Lead CLICK HERE
➤ Key Quotes
“People don’t act differently until they believe differently.”
“Your job as a leader is not to ask: ‘How do I get people to do something different?’”
“The better question is: ‘What do they need to believe so they’ll WANT to do something different?’”
“We act in alignment with our beliefs.”
“Culture is the way people think and act to get results.”
➤ Your Call to Action
Let’s make this more than just a great listen…
👉 What belief might be shaping YOUR behavior right now?
And… Is it helping you move forward? Or quietly holding you back?
Take a minute today and ask yourself: “What belief is getting in the way of the results I want?”
Then get curious.
Not judgmental.
Curious.
Because awareness changes things.
And hey… maybe even ask: Am I leading from fear? Or from love?
That one question alone might change the way you lead your team… your business… your family… or even yourself.
And if this episode sparked something for you:
Share it with a leader who needs to hear it
Start a conversation around it
Drop a comment or send us an email and let us know what hit home
Let’s keep dreaming.
Let’s keep thinking.
And most importantly…
let’s keep DOING more of what we were put on the planet to do!
The world needs YOU.
Let’s GOOOOOO!
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