Fear has a significant impact on people’s emotions, communication, and performance, and, left unchecked, it will also start to change your culture. A recent Forbes article discussed what many are calling a hidden crisis called the Fear Economy. The article discussed rising employee anxiety, emotional exhaustion, burnout, economic uncertainty, and fear about AI and job stability. Every day, people show up to work carrying fear: the fear of being replaced, of becoming irrelevant, of...

Thank you for listening to The Champion Forum Podcast with Jeff Hancher! Have you heard that we are in an empathy recession? And what does that even mean? Leaders are under an immense amount of pressure, and when leaders become overly focused on results, efficiency, and execution, empathy is often the first thing sacrificed. On today’s episode of The Champion Forum Podcast, we will discuss what the empathy gap is, why it matters, how leaders create it, and how to close it. Because if leaders...

In this episode, Jeff Hancher sits down with Sangram Vajre, co-founder and CEO of GTM Partners, bestselling author of MOVE, and one of the leading voices in go-to-market strategy. Sangram shares why CEOs must take ownership of go-to-market, how lack of clarity quietly stalls growth, and what leaders can do to align their teams around the right customers, metrics, and strategy. You’ll learn why go-to-market is not just a sales or marketing function, how to identify whether your company is in...