Most companies treat values like marketing copy. Polished, framed, and quietly ignored when decisions get inconvenient. We didn’t build STRATIVIS that way.

Values were the infrastructure first. Everything else came after.

People First, Always isn’t a tagline we added to sound good. It’s the standard we operate against, moment to moment, decision to decision. It shows up in the teams we’ve built, the leaders we’ve challenged and the calls we’ve made when it would have been easier not to.

In this episode, we break down what values are actually supposed to do: hold weight under pressure, guide decisions when there isn’t a clear playbook, and shape the kind of company you become, whether you planned for it or not.

Because values aren’t what you publish. They’re what you prove.

In this episode, we tackle whether competency frameworks are genuinely useful or just corporate overkill. The short answer? It depends.

Depends on how they’re built, how they’re used, and whether they actually support the business. Listen to find out.

On this episode, Erin and Amy chat with Mike Reading, Founder of RegenDesign Labs and creator of {RDT} DevAI. Mike is building a developmental thinking partner designed to strengthen executive-level thinking and entrepreneurial energy inside real work, not outside of it. We dig into how leaders actually think, make decisions, and sustain momentum when the work is complex, ambiguous, and very real.