[EP 013] Removing the Fear of HR: The A-Player Adventure Podcast

Update: 2025-10-01

Description

In this A-Player Quick Bite, Suzette West explores one of the most unspoken challenges in today’s workplace: the fear of HR. Too often, HR is viewed as the enforcer of rules or the administrative arm of leadership, fostering mistrust that can harden the soil of workplace culture.

Using the metaphor of the workplace as a garden, Suzette reframes the role of HR leaders as master gardeners who cultivate the soil of culture. When HR shifts from being an administrative function to becoming the champion of people, the workplace becomes fertile ground where trust, respect, and coherence can flourish.

Discover why this shift is urgent in the age of burnout and rapid disruption—and imagine the transformation that becomes possible when HR is trusted not as the arm of enforcement but as the gardener of resilience and possibility.

This Quick Bite is part of the new A-Player Quick Bites series—short, focused insights designed for busy leaders who need practical wisdom to navigate the accelerating pace of change in the age of AI disruption.

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