Season 3

What To Do When You Feel Stuck
Unlocking High PerformanceJuly 30, 2026x
14
00:18:03

What To Do When You Feel Stuck

Feeling stuck is one of the most common and most isolating experiences in work and in life. In this solo episode, Jason Lauritsen shares his own year-long effort to move his business forward after realizing he kept landing in the same place, year after year. He walks through what it actually took to...

How To Scale Culture Without Losing It with Jamie Griffin
Unlocking High PerformanceJuly 23, 2026x
13
00:29:47

How To Scale Culture Without Losing It with Jamie Griffin

If you are trying to keep your culture consistent as you grow, this conversation shows you how one people leader is doing it across hundreds of locations and thousands of frontline workers. You will learn why clarity and alignment are two different jobs, how an origin story becomes a tool for shapin...

What Caring Actually Looks Like as a Leader
Unlocking High PerformanceJuly 02, 2026x
12
00:15:53

What Caring Actually Looks Like as a Leader

In this solo episode, Jason explores with a question that sounds simple until you look at it closely. What does it look like to care for someone as their leader? He talks through why care at work has to look different from the care we show at home because the relationship has specific purpose. And h...

Scaling Without Losing Your Culture with Spencer Douglas
Unlocking High PerformanceJune 17, 2026x
11
00:37:53

Scaling Without Losing Your Culture with Spencer Douglas

When a company grows fast, it's easy to see only the good in it. The wins keep coming, so the quieter thing underneath is easy to miss. Some of the core things that fueled the company’s growth start to drift, and it rarely shows up as a culture problem at first. It shows up somewhere else, in a clie...

Introducing the Connected Performance Group
Unlocking High PerformanceJune 10, 2026x
10
00:21:32

Introducing the Connected Performance Group

In this episode, Jason does something a little different and talks through his own business, newly relaunched as Connected Performance Group. He shares why he rebuilt the way he works with clients, and lays out the system he developed over two decades for getting at the root of performance problems ...

Your Leadership Blind Spots Are Hiding in Plain Sight
Unlocking High PerformanceJune 03, 2026x
9
00:15:42

Your Leadership Blind Spots Are Hiding in Plain Sight

Everyone carries a particular way of seeing the world. It's shaped by where we grew up, how we were taught, and the experiences we’ve collected along the way. Most of the time, it goes unnoticed. But that lens shapes how situations get read, how people get judged, and how someone leads. When it goes...

Proud Employees Don't Need to Be Pushed with Chris Sund
Unlocking High PerformanceMay 28, 2026x
8
00:32:27

Proud Employees Don't Need to Be Pushed with Chris Sund

In this episode of Unlocking High Performance, Jason is joined by Chris Sund, President and CEO of UnityMed and GQR Healthcare and COO of Nebula. Chris leads a distributed workforce across healthcare staffing, recruiting, and AI-powered talent solutions, and he shares how his teams treat experience ...

The Golden Rule of Management Behind High-Performing Teams
Unlocking High PerformanceMay 20, 2026x
7
00:12:14

The Golden Rule of Management Behind High-Performing Teams

In this solo episode of Unlocking High Performance, Jason unpacks one of the most important drivers of team performance: clarity. He describes a pattern he’s seen repeated across organizations of every size. Leaders get frustrated with team members who seem unmotivated or off track, when the real is...

Why Job Descriptions No Longer Fit Modern Work with Lisa Sterling
Unlocking High PerformanceMay 07, 2026x
6
00:37:02

Why Job Descriptions No Longer Fit Modern Work with Lisa Sterling

Join Jason Lauritsen as he sits down with Lisa Sterling, Chief People Officer at Perceptyx, for a conversation about why the traditional job description has run its course and what becomes possible when leaders stop trying to fit people into predetermined boxes. Lisa argues that job descriptions are...

The 5 Drivers of Employee Performance
Unlocking High PerformanceApril 29, 2026x
5
00:22:18

The 5 Drivers of Employee Performance

In this solo episode, Jason shares the framework he calls the Five Drivers of Performance. It is what he has distilled from years of real-world leadership advising, and it challenges one of the most persistent assumptions leaders make when performance breaks down. Jason unpacks what actually drives ...