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Career Coaching SecretsFrom Culture to Results: Brad Federman on Real Coaching That Drives GrowthIn this episode of Career Coaching Secrets, host Pedro sits down with Brad Federman, founder of Performance Point and a seasoned culture architect, to unpack what leadership, coaching, and business growth really look like in a rapidly changing world.Brad shares powerful insights on why “knowing everything” is overrated, how transparency and self-awareness build trust, and why great coaching isn’t about giving answers—but helping people think for themselves. From a formative lesson taught by his father, to hard-earned business setbacks that forced him to bet on himself, Brad walks through the moments that shaped his philosop...
2026-02-1135 min
Soul of Business with Blaine BartlettRethinking Delegation“DON’T Delegate!”
Join me and my guest Brad Federman, founder and CEO of PerformancePoint LLC. (performancepointllc.com). Prior to PerformancePoint, Brad was the EVP of Novations Group now Korn Ferry and has held leadership positions with Accenture and Humana Inc. In this conversations we explore ideas from his latest book, Never Delegate Again: Uncover the Secret to Growing Your Company, Your People, and Yourself. This transformative guide challenges outdated delegation models and introduces a bold, growth-focused approach to leadership.
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2025-10-0635 min
Brackets, Bubbles, and Bid Stealers College Basketball PodcastBrackets, Bubbles, and Bid Stealers S6E22: Tip-Off Talk, Iowa with Brad SchultzSam Federman and Jonathan Lidskin preview Iowa with Brad Schultz
2025-07-3122 min
Grow Strong Leaders Podcast337: Never Delegate Again—Unless You're Doing It Like ThisWhat if delegation wasn’t about getting tasks off your plate, but about helping your people grow? This episode explores a powerful reframe of delegation as a leadership tool for development. Brad Federman shares insights from his book Never Delegate Again, challenging outdated models like the Eisenhower Matrix and offering a modern, growth-oriented approach that builds both people and performance. He introduces the Growth Matrix, a practical framework for assigning tasks in ways that stretch capabilities while avoiding overload or misalignment. You’ll hear real-life stories that bring Brad’s strategies to life, including how he helped a burne...
2025-07-2850 min
Office Hours with David MeltzerBrad Federman, Shaheen Samavati | Office Hours #761Brad Federman
Brad Federman, M.Ed., is on a mission to inspire possibilities. Every day, countless people struggle in workplaces that fail to live up to their promises and values. Brad has dedicated his career to changing that narrative, helping organizations create cultures where employees and customers thrive. As the founder of PerformancePoint, he partners with industry leaders like Nordstrom, FedEx, and Mayo Clinic to build winning cultures where both the business and their individuals thrive. He is a recognized expert, international author, speaker, coach, and consultant, frequently featured in spaces and places such as Fortune, FOX...
2025-07-2427 min
Grow Strong Leaders Podcast319: Cultivating a Culture That LastsCompany culture isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of an organization’s success or failure. Brad Federman shares how businesses can create a culture that balances people and results. He explains where many organizations go wrong when developing their values and why culture must be designed to outlast leadership changes. Brad also reveals how companies can avoid common pitfalls, such as tolerating bad behavior and adopting trendy policies without considering business needs. We dive into practical strategies for aligning culture with business goals, reinforcing positive behaviors, and holding leaders accountable. Brad describes the importance of contin...
2025-03-1853 min
Think Mastery with Dr. YishaiUnlocking a Winning Culture (with Brad Federman) | 347Welcome to Think Mastery with Dr. Yishai. Hosted by Doctor of Psychology, entrepreneur, and executive coach Dr. Yishai Barkhordari. On this podcast, you'll hear real talk about life and business. Plus, how to use psychology to create more mastery and success in both.In this episode, I sit down with Brad Federman, co-founder of Aspire Talent Advisory, CEO of Performance Point, and best-selling author of three books. Brad has navigated the challenges of running multiple companies and transforming leadership practices. Now working on his next book, Never Delegate Again, he shares how smart delegation and a people-first...
2025-03-1343 min
The Daily Author#158: Brad Federman — Cultivating CultureIn this episode of “The Daily Author”, our guest Brad Federman, a renowned expert in workplace culture, leadership, and employee engagement.
We discuss that fostering a healthy culture requires intentional strategies rather than just allowing remote work. Companies must provide support, tools, and policies to ensure both productivity and employee well-being.
We cover the importance of intentional strategies in fostering a healthy company culture.
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2025-02-0729 min
Training UnleashedUnleashing the Power of Culture and Leadership with Brad FedermanIn this episode of Training Unleashed, host Evan Hackel engages with Brad Federman, CEO of Performance Point, to discuss the transformative power of workplace culture and its impact on organizational success. They delve into strategies for aligning culture with customer needs, fostering employee engagement, and driving leadership excellence. Brad shares actionable insights, including real-world examples of cultural integration post-merger and leveraging AI tools for enhancing cultural alignment. Discover how a strong, intentional culture can stabilize organizations, empower employees, and improve customer loyalty. Don’t miss this thought-provoking conversation packed with valuable lessons for any leader!...
2025-01-2933 min
The LeadandBelieve PodcastLead & Believe with Brad FedermanThis was an excellent episode where Brad helps leaders with engagement and meetings.
Brad points directly to the importance of building culture in the small moments and don't put huge emphasis on the BIG celebrations that don't sustain momentum.
2022-10-2627 min
The Optical EntrepreneurBrad Federman: Cultivating Culture – 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or LessIn this episode Conor and Brad talk about:How your culture affects your ability to attract and retain fantastic employees – and how to get this important benefit working for youWhy you should stop doing some meetings entirely and save time and what to do insteadHow to free yourself from being the bottleneck in your practice so your team can take many more tasks off your plate saving you time and giving you more freedom from your practice and superior financial resultsPractical exercises that will increase energy and passion and engagement with your teamHow stronger culture creates increases revenue an...
2022-10-0749 min
Partnering Leadership200 How to Cultivate a Thriving Organizational Culture with Brad Federman | Partnering Leadership Global Thought LeaderIn this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Brad Federman, Leadership and Culture Expert, Speaker, Coach, and Author of Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less. Brad Federman shares how leaders can cultivate a company culture that will help them succeed in creating a two-way dialogue and improving teamwork. Brad Federman also highlighted the eight key focus areas that will amplify values at work to achieve a healthy and productive organization. Finally, Brad Federman outlines how cultivating culture brings your team together and keeps them committed to the company's core values.
2022-10-0633 min
Connecting the DotsBrad Federman speaks about his new book Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less Every day, people wake up and trudge to work, resentfully working at a company that falls short of its promises and values. This is a problem, one that Brad has dedicated his career to resolving. He is dedicated to helping organizations engage employees and customers, build resilient and bulwark relationships, as well as creating collaborative and agile cultures. As he puts it, his job is to ‘help organizations discover and live their possible’. This mission has followed Brad throughout his career as an international author, speaker, coach, and consultant with more than 25 years of corporate experience.
2022-09-2931 min
Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersGreatest Hits: Brad Federman.."Culture as a Coping Mechanism"Going back to one of our favorite episodes, I wanted to make certain that it got repeated. Brad spoke at Lead FWD and some of his material can be heard in this episode.
Also, his book is a must-read. If you don't have it, you need to go get it...
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2022-09-2847 min
People and Performance PodcastCultivating Company CultureIn this episode of the People and Performance Podcast, Chris Bjorling and Bill Banham focus on the reasons why leading with meaning and purpose can create more positive and sustainable business outcomesThe guest expert this time is Brad Federman, CEO at PerformancePoint LLC and author of Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less - released back in March 2022.Brad works with organizations of all sizes and in all industries, helping them foster engaged employees, resilient relationships, and collaborative cultures.Questions For Brad Include:Is it harder...
2022-09-2815 min
People and Projects Podcast: Project Management PodcastPPP 359 | Improve Your Team Culture In 15 Minutes? Brad Federman Tells Us HowDeveloping Culture Beyond the Theory You know that the culture of your team and organization is critical to your ability to get work done. But here's my observation: most books on culture stay too theoretical. They share models for understanding what culture is. They have high-level processes for transforming culture. And despite nodding my head while reading these books, I find they're often not sufficiently practical. How do we, in practice, develop culture over time? That's the focus of Brad Federman's new book entitled Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less. Brad...
2022-06-0438 min
HRchat PodcastWays Leaders Can be Agents of Change with Brad Federman, PerformancePoint LLCEmployees want their leaders to share the purpose of their work. They want to engage, with their hearts and minds, in work that resonates. When leaders make these connections and build upon foundations of meaning and purpose, good and sustainable business outcomes can happen! In this HRchat episode, we consider some impactful ways to achieve such outcomes.Bill is joined today by Brad Federman, CEO, PerformancePoint LLC, and author of Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less released in, released in March 2022. Brad works with organizations of all sizes and in all...
2022-05-3128 min
HR ScoopCulture is Not “Set it and forget it”- Part 1On this episode of the HR Scoop, Andrea welcomes Brad Federman, Corporate Culture Coach, and they explore culture building from the leadership perspective. Learn the traits the best culture-building leaders have, the power of curiosity, and hear a business case for making a drastic cultural turnaround.
2022-05-1925 min
The Burleson Box: A Podcast from Dustin Burleson, DDS, MBABrad Federman on Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or LessIn this episode, Dustin talks with Brad Federman about his book, Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less.You'll discover why culture and values are so important and what happens inside organizations that get this right versus those who get this wrong.Brad shares activities listeners can implement with their teams in order to encourage participation and engagement while strengthening your organization’s culture. We talk about how familiarity doesn’t always mean competency and why many of the best initiatives or company improvements start with being observant. Brad walks listeners through his...
2022-05-0649 min
HR Works: The Podcast for Human ResourcesHR Works Podcast 188: Doubling Down on Your Corporate CultureBrad Federman, CEO of PerformancePoint LLC, joins the HR Works Podcast to discuss the defining factors of corporate culture and elements team leaders can introduce to maintain a healthy team dynamic during times of change and turbulence. Listen as Brad shares advice from his book, Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less, and reveals some of the red flags that HR professionals should be looking for to recognize that their corporate culture is in need of an overhaul.
2022-05-0344 min
Bringing the Human back to Human Resources75. Cultivating Culture through Conversations, Appreciation, & Ownership (feat. Brad Federman)Brad joins the podcast again for an incredible conversation on cultivating culture. We discuss Brad's newest book, "Cultivating Culture" throughout the episode, which you can pickup using the link below. Brad's insights and knowledge into how cultures are cultivated and developed allow for a deep dive into two-way conversations, appreciating one another, and ownership over accountability. Connect with Brad and buy "Cultivating Culture" using the links here:
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2022-04-0543 min
Coaching StartUp SecretsBrad Federman | How to Coach for Business Culture? – Karim Amri CSS: 067In today’s episode, Karim is continuing with his amazing guest,Brad Federmanwho spent really, decades of his life exploring this area of coaching, personal development, communication connection, and how to get the best benefit out of it for individuals and organizations.Every day, people wake up and trudge to work, resentfully working at a company that falls short of its promises and values. This is a problem, one that Brad has dedicated his career to resolving. He is dedicated to helping organizations engage employees and customers, build resilient and bulwark relationships, as well as...
2022-03-2428 min
Coaching StartUp SecretsBrad Federman | How Important Business Culture to Business Success? – Karim Amri CSS: 066In today’s episode, Karim is lucky to have an amazing guest,who spent really, decades of his life exploring this area of coaching, personal development, communication connection, and how to get the best benefit out of it for individuals and organizations.Brad FedermanEvery day, people wake up and trudge to work, resentfully working at a company that falls short of its promises and values. This is a problem, one that Brad has dedicated his career to resolving. He is dedicated to helping organizations engage employees and customers, build resilient and bulwark relationships, as we...
2022-03-1729 min
Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersCulture As A Coping Mechanism Today...Behaviors We Are Willing To AcceptIt is safe to say that the world has changed. Outside of that being the most obvious statement that you've read on the show notes, the important questions are...how do we maintain it and why is it important.
Any long time listener to the podcast knows this is a huge topic with us, but that doesn't mean we won't visit this often particularly when we can have Brad Federman on to discuss this!
Brad is the founder/CEO of PerformancePoint LLC here in Memphis and one of our highest rated faculty members at the graduate school. A member of...
2022-03-0946 min
Relish A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Next-Level.Cultivating Culture by Brad FedermanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/74062to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cultivating Culture
Author: Brad Federman
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
Release date: 03-01-22
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Workplace & Organizational Behavior
Publisher's Summary:
2022-03-015h 42
Access Unmissable Free Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Career DevelopmentCultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less by Brad FedermanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less Author: Brad Federman Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Culture cannot be a set-it-and-forget-it aspect of your business. Weaving culture-building into your daily and weekly activities strengthens the engagement of your people and reinforces the key principles of your desired culture, making it a reality. In Cultivating Culture, author, speaker, and leadership coach Brad Federman provides actionable tools for immediately promoting better teamwork, creating two-way conversations...
2022-03-0130 min
Inevitable: The Future of Work084 Cultivating Culture: The quest to build people up, not bring them down Brad Federman, Founder and CEO of PerformancePoint and author of Cultivating Culture, joins us for a lively discussion about leadership, engagement, and performance and offers great counsel about ways to help teams discover and live their possible. Can people really learn to walk the talk...tune in and find out. We also cover issues of vertical and follical challenge, because some of us are short and bald!
2022-02-151h 01
The Pineapple's Flip-Side8. Cleveland Review ThrowdownIt's a new year and the fellas are back! Chris and Brandon bring you their best Cleveland hotel review finds and start 2022 off with a highlight of essential associate, Joshua Williams. They top off the episode with some insight on the challenges of staffing post-Covid from Brad Federman. 2022 is off to a fun start - Brandon is sick and someone's been shot! Buckle in, Flippos!
Special thanks to Joshua Williams and Brad Federman.
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2022-01-0348 min
Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersBenefits And Work Life Tension: Brad Federman with PerformancePoint LLCIf you've attended the Barret Graduate School of Banking (and you really should!), you will have had Brad Federman with PerformancePoint LLC. A member of the Forbes Coaches Council and featured speaker/author all over the country, Brad is a true thought leader (and I don't use that term everyday) in the realm of HR issues, emotional intelligence, culture, and employee engagement.
Recently, he wrote an article HR Professionals Magazine about Using Benefits to Trim Work Life Tension. The article is linked below and (after you listen to the episode!) you need to read this article. He has talks about...
2021-10-2025 min
Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersGreatest Hits: Track 4 Coping With Crises Pt 2We're at the end of our "Greatest Hits" series and we're wrapping up our 2 parter with Brad Federman.
I hope you've enjoyed going back and hearing these tracks. It's good to go back and listen to older episodes and remember those takeaways we got back then. I've enjoyed it...and thanks for hanging in there with me.
Don't forget to check out our sponsor, ICBA Securities, at https://www.icba.org/icba-securities
2021-08-0425 minMain Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersGreatest Hits: Track 3 Coping With Crises Pt 1Track 3 of our Greatest Hits is part 1 of a 2-parter we did with Brad Federman on anxiety and coping with stresses in a crisis. The context of these two episodes is 2020 and right at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Remember that time!?
There's still outstanding information here that we all need that's applicable to life separate from COVID...or pandemics. It's just good information we all need!
Part 2 will be next week...so, don't worry!
Also, don't forget to check out our sponsor, ICBA Securities, at https://www.icba.org/icba-securities
2021-07-2816 min
Success Thought Of The Day with James Rosseau, Sr.Passion: Finding it and Leading with itPaychecks can’t buy passion. – Brad Federman
2021-07-1001 min
Bringing the Human back to Human Resources31. Owning your Career feat. Brad FedermanBrad Federman, CEO of PerformancePoint LLC, a national consulting and training firm specializing in culture building, leadership and people initiatives. Brad and Traci share a few laughs in this episode where we talk about how much of ourselves we bring to work, how we can remain focused on being truly people-centric, and ways in which leaders can make thoughtful changes in how they lead their teams.
Connect with Brad here:
https://performancepointllc.com
mailto:bfederman@performancepointllc.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/performance-point-llc/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/br...
2021-06-0136 min
Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersYou can do this!! More from Brad Federman. (Part 2 of 2)Thanks for coming back! If you haven't heard part 1 from yesterday's episode, take some time and listen to that as well. These are tough times for all of us...but there is still good in the world and you can do this!!
2020-03-3122 minMain Street Banking: A Podcast for Community BankersControl What You Can Control! A Mental Health Conversation with Brad Federman. (Part 1 of 2)These are tough times for all of us in community banking. How do we handle the stresses we are currently facing? Whether we are working remotely or we are working in closed lobbies through drive-thru windows, the past few weeks have seen an enormous amount of changes and anxieties. Brad Federman spends two days with us talking about this very topic.
2020-03-3013 min
Chachi Loves EverybodyEp.07 Ken CharlesABOUT THIS EPISODE'S GUEST:Ken Charles is the Program Director for KNX in Los Angeles, as well as the News Format Captain for Entercom.As discussed in this episode, you can check out KNX In Depth here: https://knx1070.radio.com/media/podcast/knx-depthAll other KNX-related podcasts can be found here: https://knx1070.radio.com/audio-channel/podcasts ABOUT THE PODCAST:Chachi Loves Everybody is brought to you by Benztown and hosted by the President of Benztown, Dave “Chachi” Denes. Get a behind the scenes look on the m...
2020-02-211h 50
HR Works: The Podcast for Human ResourcesHR Works 94: Confronting and Overcoming Unconscious BiasWe all have unconscious biases. Without awareness and tools for confronting these biases, organizations will develop or extend major problems. The effects of such bias impact everything in an organization including recruiting and promotion decisions as well as heavily influencing company culture.
This episode's guest is an expert when it comes to confronting and eliminating unconscious biases. Brad Federman is the Chief Executive Officer of Performance Point, as well as an author, speaker, and a consultant with more than 25 years of corporate experience in various aspects of human resources.
Brad will also be co-hosting a session titled “Eradicating Unconscious Bias: Ho...
2019-09-1031 min
Working Gratitude - Real people. Real gratitude at work.Working Gratitude with Brad FedermanChief Operating Officer with F&H Solutions Group, Brad Federman is an author, a speaker and a consultant with more than 25 years of experience in human resources, performance management, employee engagement, compensation, recruiting, change management and instructional design. His background also includes sales, marketing, product development and operations. With a B.A. in communications from University of Maryland and M.Ed. in human resource development from Vanderbilt University, he is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, a frequently requested featured speaker, an author of three books and has been interviewed for numerous national publications. (https://www.fhsolutionsgroup.com/)
2019-04-0300 min
Training UnleashedWhy Engaging Your Employees Gives You a Competitive Advantage With Brad FedermanEpisode 6 - Evan Hackel speaks with Brad Federman, COO of F&H Solutions Group, about how engaging your employees gives you a competitive advantage. Brad is the author of the book Employee Engagement, and has more than 22 years of corporate experience in various aspects of human resources and training. Contact Brad at bfederman@fhsolutionsgroup.com. Brought to you by TrainingUnleashed.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-09-2323 min
About Last NightALN - Wayne Federman
The great Wayne Federman makes his debut on the podcast to talk about using ouija boards to pick up ladies, how he got into acting and stand-up, appearing on Curb, working with a young Judd Apatow, a little bit of basketball talk, and SO much more! Follow him on TWITTER @Federman, Adam @AdamRayComedy, Brad @FunnyBrad, and the pod @ALNPodcast!
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2017-06-291h 12
People and Projects Podcast: Project Management PodcastPPP 36 | Engaging Your Employees, With Author Brad Federman I had the privilege of delivering a keynote presentation earlier this month for a company in Brazil that brought 600 of its employees together for an offsite meeting. It was my first time in Brazil so I was very interested in learning not only the culture of the country but also that of the organization. As I informally talked with employees from various teams before my keynote I was struck by how bought in their staff is to their company's mission. These people were engaged. Even with my language barrier, it was clear to me that this organization...
2010-09-1432 min