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Signals

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Signals is Starbold’s platform for capturing and amplifying the real challenges and bold ideas shaping people and technology. Leaders and practitioners submit “signals” from their organizations—emerging trends, obstacles, or opportunities they’re seeing. Each week, those signals fuel a podcast: short, four-minute solo reactions that cut through the noise with sharp insights, alternating with 16-minute panel discussions featuring practitioners, advisors, and technology providers. Occasionally, the original signal-sender joins the conversation to add a firsthand perspective. The result is a rhythm of dialogue that helps organizations navigate complexity, act boldly, and chart a clear course forward.All rights reserved by WRKdefined Economie Management Management et direction
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  • Leading Through the Storm: Lessons from Bombs, Bacon, and Bankruptcy

    Leading Through the Storm: Lessons from Bombs, Bacon, and Bankruptcy
    Sep 1 2026
    What can business leaders learn from bombs, bacon, bankruptcy...and even waterboarding? In this episode of Starbold Signals, Jeremy Ames sits down with leadership expert and author Henry J. Evans to explore what it really takes to lead when the stakes get high. Drawing on Henry’s extraordinary experiences in national security, counterterrorism, and business, they unpack why trust beats coercion, why vulnerability may be a leader’s greatest tool, and why the person with the most expertise isn’t always the person who should lead in a crisis. They also tackle the increasingly blurry line between AI and human intelligence, the danger of allowing technology to make the “last mile” of critical decisions, and how leaders can prepare before disruption becomes an emergency. The goal isn’t simply to survive the storm...it’s to build an organization capable of thriving because of how it responds to it. Leading Through the Storm: Lessons from Bombs, Bacon, and Bankruptcy is a conversation about courage, trust, judgment, and knowing when leadership means stepping forward...and when it means getting out of the way.
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    25 min
  • Bold Enough To Admit It - the benefits knowledge gap every HR leader should confront.

    Bold Enough To Admit It - the benefits knowledge gap every HR leader should confront.
    Jun 29 2026
    How much does your HR team really know about benefits strategy - and are you bold enough to admit when there's more to learn? In this episode of Starbold Signals, Jeremy Ames sits down with Stephanie Porrino, Founder & CEO of Empower Healthcare Insights, for an honest conversation about one of HR's biggest blind spots. They explore why benefits have been treated as an administrative function instead of a strategic business driver, how fear and overreliance on brokers can limit innovation, and what HR leaders can do to take ownership of healthcare strategy. Through real-world stories of bold leadership, cost containment, and life-changing employee outcomes, this episode challenges HR professionals to rethink benefits as a competitive advantage - for their organizations and the people they serve.
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    25 min
  • State of Emotions

    State of Emotions
    Jan 19 2026
    In this episode of Signals, published on MLK Day, host Jeremy Ames reflects on a noticeable emotional undercurrent shaping today’s workplaces—one marked by fatigue, guardedness, and a growing insistence on separating “business” from the realities people bring with them. He explores how that separation often breaks down in practice, particularly as employees continue to experience—and in some cases endure—racially charged behavior, bias, and inequitable treatment that cannot simply be left at the door. The episode examines the tension leaders feel between maintaining neutrality and acknowledging that emotions, identity, and lived experience are already embedded in organizational life. Jeremy argues that ignoring these signals doesn’t reduce risk—it displaces it, often onto the very people with the least power to absorb it. Using his four-point framework, he connects these emotional signals to broader patterns in leadership behavior, culture, and decision-making. The episode ultimately challenges listeners to consider whether emotional distance is truly professionalism, or just avoidance dressed up as discipline.
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    6 min
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