Leading With Respect

Leading With Respect by Bobby Bakshi explores how respect shapes leadership, culture, and business success — through candid conversations with executives and thought leaders. Respect isn’t just a value — it’s a business advantage. In Leading With Respect by Bobby Bakshi , you’ll hear insightful, unfiltered conversations with executives, culture builders, and change-makers who are redefining leadership in today’s workplaces. Together, we explore how respect drives trust, engagement, and results — across teams, organizations, and industries. Each episode connects back to The RESPECT Quotient™ framework — Recognize, Empathize, Stretch, Prioritize, Empower, Commit, and Transform, created by Bobby Bakshi Consulting LLC, offering practical lessons you can apply as a C-suite leader, manager, Head of HR/People & Culture, or culture champion. Bobby Bakshi is a leadership development consultant, culture transformation expert, and a

Leading With Respect is a business podcast hosted by Bobby Bakshi, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Bobby Bakshi hosts Leading With Respect, a business show with 52 episodes published.

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  Episode #52

  The Highest-ROI Leadership Skill Nobody's Measuring | Episode #052 | Adam Nemer

  Jun 17, 202626 min

  This week, the Leading With Respect podcast turns one year old — Episode 52. I've got separate posts running on that milestone, so I'll keep this part short: thank you dear guests for your wisdom and heart, on this critical topic. I want to lead with the actual argument of this week's episode, because it's worth stating plainly before I get into the story. My guest, Adam Nemer, was a CFO and operations executive at Kaiser Permanente, and is now the author of the new book Simple Mental Health. His core claim, backed by two decades sitting on the finance side of a 200,000-person organization, is this: Listening is the highest-leverage, lowest-cost leadership skill in your business, and almost nobody is managing it as a metric. That's not a soft observation. That's a gap in your operating model. Read the article on LinkedIn.

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  Episode #51

  Respect Shows Up Differently by Culture | Episode #051 | Michelle Zou

  Jun 10, 202622 min

  Respect Shows Up Differently by Culture Michelle Zou, PCC, MBA, PhD Candidate in Happiness Studies on happiness research, cross-cultural blind spots, and why what feels respectful to you may feel like the opposite to someone else. We tend to think of respect as something we either have or don't. A character trait. A cultural value. Something leadership declares and HR measures once a year in an engagement survey. Michelle Zhou — executive coach, wellbeing researcher, and PhD candidate in happiness studies — sees it differently. To her, respect is a lived experience, and my hand goes up big time to that! The gap between what a leader intends and the impact on employees is where most organizations are quietly losing people. This ties to low engagement scores. This week's conversation on Leading With Respect is one worth sitting with slowly. Read the article on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/respect-shows-up-differently-culture-bobby-bakshi-bfb7c

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  Episode #50

  Treating people as objects creates the absence of respect | Episode #050 | Phillip Cave

  Jun 5, 202618 min

  Treating people as objects creates the absence of respect. Phillip Cave on pattern recognition, personal responsibility, and why honoring someone is a verb — not a value on a wall. Most leaders I talk to genuinely believe they respect their people. They also have teams where trust is low, feedback is guarded, and conflict gets buried. So what's the gap? This week on Leading With Respect, I sat down with Phillip Cave , a former software engineer and principal program manager who backed into the people side of business and never left. Consider his wisdom and share it with your people, your network.n, personal responsibility, and why honoring someone is a verb — not a value on a wall.

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  Episode #49

  The Leadership Imperative Most Underinvesting In | Episode #049 | Craig Devereaux

  May 28, 202622 min

  There is a question I have asked in boardrooms, at leadership offsites, and in quiet one-on-ones with founders who are wondering why their organizations feel harder to run than they should be. The question is deceptively simple: Do your people believe you count their needs as important? Not do you have a good benefits package? Not do you hold quarterly town halls? Not do you have a stated set of company values printed somewhere on a wall? Do your people — in their bones — believe that you, as their leader, genuinely regard their needs as worthy of your consideration? This week on the Leading With Respect podcast, I had the privilege of sitting down with Craig Devereaux , Founder and CEO of Advius Group, an executive search and coaching firm built around a thesis I find both intellectually rigorous and morally grounded: that executive failure and team underperformance are, at their core, a respect problem. And that leaders who get this right don't just build better cultures — they build better business outcomes. The conversation went places I didn't expect. I want to bring the best of it to you here. Read the full article on LinkedIn.

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  Episode #48

  True Respect: Why Leaders Must Call Out "The Turd on the Table" | Episode #048 | Rishad Tobaccowala

  May 20, 202620 min

  We’ve all seen the corporate posters. The ones plastered in breakrooms or splashed across landing pages featuring buzzwords like Integrity, Collaboration, and, most frequently, Respect. But what happens when the rubber meets the road? What does respect actually look like when financial targets are missed, a high-paying client treats your team like scum, or a massive organizational shift is underway? In this week's episode, I sat down with Rishad Tobaccowala —author, speaker, and former Chief Strategist and Growth Officer at Publicis Group. Over a 45-year career spanning massive corporate ecosystems and his current chapter as a "company of one," Rishad has mastered the art of organizational reinvention. He shared a masterclass on what true workplace respect looks like, how to navigate toxic cultures, and why human emotion is our ultimate competitive advantage in the age of AI. See the LinkedIn article summarizing the conversation here.

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