Hiring is the easy part. In Episode 5, Kimone Napier sits down with career strategist and executive coach Cynthia Pong, JD — founder of Embrace Change — on the tool most organizations overlook when it comes to advancing and retaining women of color: coaching, built as a system rather than offered as a perk.
Structure problems don’t announce themselves. In Episode 4, Kimone Napier walks through the five signs an organization has outgrown its structure — ending with the one that gets the most response, because leaders take it personally.
Nobody quits in the exit interview. In Episode 3, Kimone Napier gets into what actually drives strong performers out, why pay is usually the explanation rather than the cause, and the warning signs that show up months before a resignation.
Your team is already using AI — quietly, unevenly, with no shared standard. In Episode 2, Kimone Napier moves the conversation past the tools and into the workforce question underneath it: which roles are changing, and what you owe the people in them.
Most leaders reach for a new hire when a team feels stuck. But hiring isn’t the problem — the system is. In the Season 4 premiere, Kimone Napier reframes the thing that’s really slowing your team down, and where to look first.
After some time away, the Hire Breakthrough Podcast is back — and Season 4 goes beyond hiring, into the systems and people strategy behind teams that actually work. Listen to the trailer, and catch new episodes starting September 8th.”
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