The HumanEdge - by Brize
Brize: The HumanEdge – the podcast that helps you move past the daily grind and take control of your career growth.
Work isn’t just about checking off to-do lists. It’s about evolving, learning, and unlocking new opportunities. In each episode, we dive into the skills, mindsets, and strategies that empower you to step beyond your current role and into your full career potential.
From building trust in leadership to navigating workplace change, setting career goals, and developing future-proof skills, Brize: Beyond the Job is here to help you make the shift from doing work to owning your professional growth.
Whether you’re an ambitious employee, a people leader, or a Human Resource professional invested in talent development, this podcast brings fresh insights and actionable advice to help you thrive.
🚀 Ready to move beyond the job? Let’s get to work.
Episodes
60 episodes
Special Edition: To Take Advantage of AI’s Impact on Your Career – Skate to Where the Puck is Going
Disclaimer: Apologies to non-sports fans, specifically non-hockey fans, for the analogy. It's just particularly fitting.AI is already disrupting how we work. It will increase our productivity and change how we achieve our goals...
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5:46
Being Strategic - What It Means
Strategic thinking, or being strategic, is often tossed around as a needed approach in the workplace. But what does it actually mean? Being strategic involves achieving short-term goals while keeping an eye on the future for potential opportuni...
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2:23
Leadership Attribute: Empowers Others Through Continuous Learning
In the 5th and final episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the leadership attribute: Empowers Others Through Continuous Learning.In their wrap-up of the series, they share how these five attributes contribute to a leader...
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11:48
Leadership Attribute: Proactively Creates Culture
In this episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the 4th of 5 effective leadership attributes: Proactively Creates Culture.
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9:06
Leadership Attribute: Over-Communicates to Avoid Ambiguity
In this episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the 3rd of 5 effective leadership attributes: Over-Communicates to Avoid Ambiguity.
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8:03
Leadership Attribute: Activates System 2 Critical Thinking for Problem-Solving
In this episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the 2nd of 5 effective leadership attributes: Activates System 2 Critical Thinking for Problem-Solving.
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7:12
Leadership Attribute: Influences Others to Gain Cooperation
In this year-end podcast series, Pamela Coleman-Davis, a Certified Career Coach and The Modern Leadership Design program developer, joins Leslie Ferry. And they explore 5 attributes of effective leadership.In this first episode, th...
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9:14
Career Transitions & Performance Measurements: Leading Others
The final topic of the Career Transitions and Performance Measurement series is leading others. It starts with two questions. Are you a manager or leader? How do you know? Listen to find out how to recognize your movement into the next career s...
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3:12
Career Transitions & Performance Measurements: Managing Others
This Bright & Wize episode discusses how job performance measurements change when individuals start to manage others, whether as a team lead or direct report manager.
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5:34
Career Transitions & Performance Measurements: Into The Workplace
This episode series is the first of several year-end Bright & Wize weekly series. Here, Brize CEO & Bright & Wize host Leslie Ferry dives into performance measurement in the workplace. The reason she wanted to explore this topic is ...
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5:38
Today’s Careers Require I3 (Subject + Emotional + Social Intelligence)
In this thought-provoking episode, we explore how the ever-evolving work landscape and our individual career journeys shape the essential skills needed for thriving in today's careers.Leslie Ferry, the host and Brize CEO, kicks things of...
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16:17
Influence & Persuade Others
One of the most exciting aspects of work today is that we get to share our ideas for growth or solutions to problems. Work today is more ideation and less repetitive efforts. It is exciting to have the opportunity to positively impact our organ...
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6:09
20% More Productive in Just 10 days? Research proves that self-reflection is key, which is truly priceless.
Many of us avoid thinking about our actions or approaches to work for various reasons. In this Bright & Wize podcast episode, Leslie Ferry delves into why we don't do it. But more importantly, she discusses the benefits of self-reflection, ...
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11:13
Don't Fear Feedback. It is the Best Gift we Can Receive
Hearing we can do a better job in some areas can be disappointing. But with feedback, we can speed our growth. Listen to hear how to accept this tremendous give gracefully. And how you can help your colleagues provide helpful insights. (They ma...
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7:08
The 21st-Century Career Success Profile
Brize CEO and host of the Bright & Wize podcast Leslie Ferry recently presented at a virtual tech conference where she shared her thoughts on what it takes to have a successful career in today’s digitally transformed work environment. ...
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11:41
How Mentors, Our Business Friends, Guide Us To Achieve Our Career Goals & Aspirations
Mentors are a great source of guidance and advice on navigating our careers to realize our goals. They are generous with their time to share their experiences and lessons to help us accelerate our growth and avoid missteps. These exceptional co...
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40:46
I Was Laid Off. My Daily Career Wellness Investment Led To A New Job Offer Just One Month Later.
After just buying her first home with her new husband, Leslie, Bright & Wize host and Brize Founder, was laid off. With a higher mortgage on top of car payments and other financial responsibilities, to say the stress and anxiety she was exp...
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9:54
Don’t Overestimate Your Work Performance
It contributes to the great job performance opinion divide.It is not a new phenomenon, but its reasons are evolving. There is a great job performance opinion divide. Many individuals can overestimate how well they are performin...
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11:38
It is Not a Question of If, But When to Work With a Career Performance Coach
Professional athletes have performance coaches. So should corporate professionals. Coaches guide a self-discovery process, helping us understand how we show up for work and growth opportunities that lead to stronger job performance with less st...
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33:05
A Pain Finder Tool For Improving Individual & Whole Organization Productivity
Talking about pain and healing in the workplace may seem out-of-place. But that is the point, to shift our thinking about how we think about our pain (stress, anxiety, hurt) at work to clarify how we can address and manage it. In th...
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39:51
The Importance of Setting Goals & Establishing Habits
Scott Montgomery, Chief Customer Officer at Worldgate, certified Leadership Coach, and author of a new book, How Did You Get Here? Lessons of Unconventional Success joins Leslie again to discuss how setting goals contribute to attaining our per...
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28:29
Quiet Quitting as a Form of Silent Protest? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
Have you heard about the new trend at work, quiet quitting? If you are not up to date on this latest viral trend, quiet quitting is not about leaving a job but a process of starting to do the minimum amount of work possible while keeping a job....
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15:18
Self-Evaluate Your Value Contribution at Work
We all want to understand how to measure our value at work. Pamela Coleman-Davis provides guidance on how to self-evaluate our contributions and actions to increase the value we provide to our organization.
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16:09
