Your Best People Are Leaving (Because You Promoted Them Out the Door)

Your Best People Are Leaving (Because You Promoted Them Out the Door)

Your best employee just quit. Not because they were failing, because they were succeeding, and their reward was more work, a bigger title, and zero support. Sound familiar? LaToya, Ami, and Marci break down why companies keep burning out the exact people they can't afford to lose: the real difference between high performers and high potentials (hint: they're not the same person, stop treating them like they are), why Gartner says only 15% of your talent is truly "top" and why that's fine, the quiet power of steady performers, and the rise of revenge quitting. Because promoting without support isn't development. It's a countdown clock.

Culture Starts at the Top - So Does the Damage

Culture doesn't start with HR. It starts with whoever's at the top. And when leadership is the problem, no amount of HR programming, culture initiatives, or team offsites is going to fix it. This week we're talking about Ryan Breslow, Bolt, and the very uncomfortable conversation about leadership accountability that most people in HR are having behind closed doors. We just chose to have it on a podcast.

From Star Player to People Leader: What Could Go Wrong?

In this lively discussion, HR Misfits Ami Graves, Marci Coppola, and LaToya Davis share candid stories and insights about the challenges of managing and developing effective leaders. We have seen some things. And today we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most common and most costly mistakes organizations make: taking your best individual contributor and handing them a team without a map, a plan, or a clue. We're talking about the real cost of poor leadership development, what HR can actually do about it, and why "they were great at their job" is not a leadership strategy. This one gets real. Let's get into it.

Reimagining HR: The Case for Licensure and Accountability

In this engaging episode, the HR Misfits and a special guest explore the credibility crisis in HR, the controversial idea of licensing the profession, and the innovative HR Accountability Project aimed at elevating standards and trust in HR.

The AI Throwdown: Heart vs. Algorithm

Three HR leaders. Three takes on AI. Zero agreement at the start. In this episode of The HR Misfits, Ami, LaToya, and Marci go all in on the conversation every HR team is having right now - but probably not like this. LaToya's ready to embrace it, Marci's side-eyeing it, and Ami's somewhere in the middle trying not to pick a fight. What starts as a debate, lands somewhere way more honest: AI isn't the enemy, but it's not the savior either. And the human stuff? That part's not optional.