Beyond Employee Engagement: How Mattering Transforms Leadership and Executive Search

Podcast: Fit Happens: Why CEOs and Leaders Succeed or Fail · Jason Baumgarten

Opublikowano: 2026-06-18

What if the thing quietly undermining your team's performance isn't strategy, compensation, or culture decks, but whether people feel like they matter? Jennifer Wallace is a journalist and award-winning author of Never Enough and her newest book, Mattering. She spent years studying what allows people — children, employees, leaders — to thrive under pressure, and her answer centers on a deceptively simple idea: that humans have a fundamental need not just to feel valued, but to add value. In this conversation, Jennifer and I explore how that need shapes everything from parenting to executive leadership to the way companies hire...