.png)
The Talent Forge: Shaping Workforce Behaviors with Jay Johnson
Welcome to The Talent Forge: Shaping Workforce Behavior with Jay Johnson — the podcast where behavioral science meets the day-to-day challenges of leadership and talent development.
Each week, Jay Johnson, behavioral architect, two-time TEDx speaker, and corporate trainer, brings you bold conversations and tactical insights to help organizations develop better managers, improve communication, and shape workplace behavior that drives results.
Whether you're an emerging leader, a C-suite executive, an operations manager, or an individual seeking growth, this show delivers behavior-based strategies that stick. Jay and experts in the field come together to share a behind-the-scenes look at the tools that build high-performing teams, reduce burnout, and foster cultures of accountability and trust.
From leadership development and management coaching to behavioral intelligence and culture transformation, you'll walk away with actionable tools to improve your people, processes, and performance.
This isn’t theory. This is real-world behavior, transformed. Welcome to the Forge.
Interested in being a guest? Please contact Madison Bennett via email (madison@coeuscreativegroup.com).
The Talent Forge: Shaping Workforce Behaviors with Jay Johnson
Latest Episodes
The Intellectualization Reflex and How To Break It
You can be brilliant at patterns and still be terrible at presence. We’re naming a common trap for leaders, coaches, and high performers: the intellectualization reflex, that lightning-fast move where something hurts and we respond by explainin...
.png)
Behavioral Contagion At Work
Culture can shift in a single meeting and not because you delivered a better speech. It shifts because someone’s behavior spreads quietly, fast, and often without permission. We break down behavioral contagion, the leadership idea that explains...
Design Training That Builds Real Business Tools with Rose Benedicks
Most training is built to transfer knowledge. That’s not enough anymore. If we want learning and development to survive budget cuts and earn real influence, we have to build training that produces workplace outputs people actually use. Jay John...
Solo Mission Series: Relationship Management at Work
A single vague message can kick off a week of tension, not because anyone is incompetent, but because the brain hates uncertainty and relationships strain under pressure. Our host, Jay Johnson, takes a solo deep dive into relationship managemen...
From Paralympic World Record to Daily Growth: The 1% Method with Mikael Avatar Stjernvall
A Paralympic world record doesn’t come from hype; it comes from tiny choices repeated for years. That’s where this conversation with Mikael Avatar Stjernvall goes: into the real mechanics of resilience, focus, and the kind of leadership habits ...
