Most companies treat HR as the policy police. Michael Goble, founder of The HR Consultant, spent thirty years proving that's the fastest way to lose both culture and margin. He and Tim Carroll get into what it actually takes to earn a seat at the table, and why connection still requires a room.

Theron Skees led creative at Walt Disney Imagineering, including a $5 billion portfolio of three ships and an entire island. He says the sparks between creative and technical teams are not a problem to manage. They are the engine. He joins Tim Carroll to explain positive tension, and why a memorized values card has never built a culture.

Tim Carroll - founder of Lyric Workplace and author of Work/Place: Reclaiming In-Person Work in a Remote-Obsessed World - isn't asking you to return to the office. He's showing you the cost of not doing it. In this launch episode, Tim makes his case with data from Harvard Business Review, Gallup, and the Wall Street Journal - and introduces the firm he built around that conviction.