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Hosted by Kevin Novak · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 31 episodes
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Welcome to the Human Factor Podcast, where host Kevin Novak, CEO of 2040 Digital and Author of The Truth About Transformation, explores the psychological forces that determine transformation success or failure.Each week, we dive deep into the human side of organizational change with leaders of organizations, transformation experts, and the researchers who understand that technology alone never drives lasting change.This isn’t another business podcast about the latest technology trends. This is about understanding the human factor and why smart people resist change.
Kevin Novak hosts The Human Factor: Exploring the Intersection of Humanity, Technology, and Transformation, a business show with 31 episodes published.
Season 2 comes to a close. In this solo finale, Kevin Novak traces the arc of all eighteen episodes, from the identity crisis of expertise to the long game of institutional transformation, and names the three discoveries
Season 2 comes to a close. In this solo finale, Kevin Novak traces the arc of all eighteen episodes, from the identity crisis of expertise to the long game of institutional transformation, and names the three discoveries
Guest: Tom Serena, CEO, American Gastroenterological Association Most organizational change happens on a clock measured in quarters. A leader arrives, launches an initiative, claims a win, and moves on before anyone can
Guest: Tom Serena, CEO, American Gastroenterological Association Most organizational change happens on a clock measured in quarters. A leader arrives, launches an initiative, claims a win, and moves on before anyone can
S2 Episode 16|029 Beyond Demographics: Why Data Without Craft Fails and Craft Without Data Guesses Guests: Deborah Patton and Justin Thorp You can have the most sophisticated data infrastructure in the world and still se
S2 Episode 16|029 Beyond Demographics: Why Data Without Craft Fails and Craft Without Data Guesses Guests: Deborah Patton and Justin Thorp You can have the most sophisticated data infrastructure in the world and still se
S2 Ep 15|028 The Trust Paradox: Transforming the Institutions Built to Stay the Same Guest Elizabeth Maza Stewart A small category of institution cannot signal change the way everyone else does. Standards bodies, credent
Transformation Theater - Why Organizations Perform Change Instead of Making It Season 2 | Episode 14|027 Host: Kevin Novak | Duration: ~35 minutes A nonprofit executive launched eleven change initiatives in two years. Sh
The Readiness Illusion: Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence The agent era is real. We are not yet ready for it. Both of those statements can be true at the same time. In this solo episode, Kevin Nov
Guest: Eric Hoplin, President and CEO, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) Most transformation conversations focus on a single organization. One leadership team, one culture, one set of resistance dynam
The Growth Trap: What Scaling Reveals About the Human Side of Transformation Guest: Mike Peroni, Revenue and Go-to-Market Leader Most transformation conversations assume that change is something organizations do when the
Special Guest: Erin Fuller, Global Head of Association Solutions and Chief Strategy Officer, MCI What would you see if you could be inside 30 organizations at the same time? Not reading case studies, not consulting from
Imagine you are a physician and a patient walks into your office with four symptoms. Each symptom has a straightforward explanation on its own. But a physician who treats each one independently and never asks whether the
Guest: Ryan Vet, Generational Futurist, USA Today Best-Selling Author, CEO of Boon Think about the last major change initiative your organization launched. Who embraced it? Who resisted? Was there a pattern? Most leaders
Episode 020 | Season 2: The Broken Contract Every person in your organization is operating under a contract that nobody signed, nobody negotiated, and nobody can point to on paper. And your transformation just violated i
Episode 019 | Structural Silence Silence is not the problem. It is the signal. Why don't people speak up in organizations? It's not because they lack courage. It's because organizations build systems that teach silence t
Your body has an immune system that attacks foreign invaders. Your organization has one too. And it works exactly the same way. In Season 2, Episode 018 of The Human Factor Podcast, host Kevin Novak is joined by James El
What happens when AI holds up a mirror to your organization and reflects back everything you never wanted to see? In this episode, Kevin Novak explores the most psychologically significant dimension of AI adoption: the r
Why do so many transformation initiatives "die in the middle"? In this episode of The Human Factor Podcast, Kevin Novak explores one of the most overlooked failure points in organizational change: the middle management t
Why does one anxious leader create an entire floor of anxious employees before any change has even been announced? Because emotions are literally contagious, and during organizational transformation, they spread faster t
Tom Serena
American Gastroenterological Association
1 appearance on this show
Eric Hoplin
National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors
1 appearance on this show
Erin Fuller
MCI
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Vet
Boon
1 appearance on this show
James Eliott
James Eliott and Company, Inc.
1 appearance on this show
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