Juice Inc.

06/02/2026

Most leaders know they should be checking in with their team more consistently. What they are missing is a structure simple enough to actually use.

Claude Silver calls it "Rose Bud Thorn." Three questions: what is going great, what are you looking forward to, and if you had a magic wand, what would you change about your experience right now. She uses it with executives. She uses it at the dinner table with her children.

The reason it works is not the questions themselves. It is what they open up. People share things in that structure they would not volunteer in a standard check-in because the format signals that this is a real conversation, not a status update.

Enjoy the full conversation with Claude Silver on the Podcast:

▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/W6yCLxmhnSs
🎧 Listen: https://juiceinc.com/What-Juices-You-Leadership-Podcast

05/26/2026

Most organizations extend the invitation. The values are on the wall, the culture deck is polished, and new employees are told this is a place where they can show up as themselves.

What rarely gets built is the container that actually catches people when they take that invitation seriously.

Claude Silver is the world's first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX and the author of Be Yourself at Work. She has spent 12 years building people and culture infrastructure for a 2,000-person global organization, and her clarity on what belonging actually requires is sharp and specific.

The energy people bring to work is shaped by whether their needs are being met in the environment around them. When that container is missing, it does not matter how well-worded the culture commitment is.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation on the Podcast: https://juiceinc.com/What-Juices-You-Leadership-Podcast

05/25/2026

Two people. Same job, same hours, same manager. One is running on empty by mid-afternoon. The other still has fuel to give.

The difference isn't effort or capability. It's the narrative running underneath the work, and it's something a leader can directly influence through the conversations they have every day.

In this clip from the Podcast, Norman Wolfe and Brady Wilson break down exactly how that shift happens.

The live webinar is Tuesday at 1 PM ET.

The Performance Lever Most Leaders Have Never Been Taught to Use

🗓️ May 26 | 1–2 PM ET | Hosted by Kris MacQueen

Register here if you haven't yet: https://loom.ly/DCzWjm4

05/22/2026

The question most leaders are never taught to ask:

Not how do I get more from my people, but how am I creating the conditions that unlock the energy my team needs to drive results?

That question changes how you run a meeting. How you deliver feedback. How you navigate a high-stakes conversation under pressure. And it points to the mechanism most leadership models miss entirely: energy doesn't move through programs. It moves through conversations.

Brady Wilson and Norman Wolfe go live next Tuesday with exactly this. Four business days away.

The Performance Lever Most Leaders Have Never Been Taught to Use

🗓️ May 26 | 1–2 PM ET | Hosted by Kris MacQueen

Register here: https://loom.ly/DCzWjm4

Discover why energy (not effort) is the missing driver of performance. Join us on May 26th as Brady Wilson & Norman Wolfe discuss how leaders can design conditions and conversations that fuel sustainable results.

05/21/2026

70% of companies fail to execute. 70% of employees are disengaged. And those numbers haven't moved in decades.

In this clip from the Podcast, Norman Wolfe asks the question most leadership programs skip: if we have more knowledge than ever about how to lead, why isn't any of it moving the needle?

His answer points to the same thing Brady Wilson has been building Juice's methodology around for more than 20 years, and they're bringing it into the same room on May 26.

One week away. Register here: https://loom.ly/DCzWjm4

05/19/2026

One week out.

If you're working with leaders who are doing everything right on paper and still not seeing the performance results they expect, this is the conversation to put in front of them.

Brady Wilson and Norman Wolfe go live May 26 to address the performance lever most leadership development never teaches: the energy conditions created through everyday leadership conversations. Not engagement scores. Not effort. The actual conditions that determine whether people are operating at full capacity or quietly running on empty.

One hour. A framework you can use the same week.

The Performance Lever Most Leaders Have Never Been Taught to Use

🗓️ May 26 | 1–2 PM ET | Hosted by Kris MacQueen

Register here: https://juiceinc.com/leadership-training-events-workshops/leadership-webinar-may2026/?&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=webinar260526

05/15/2026

In less than two weeks, Brady Wilson and Norman Wolfe go live, and they're starting with one of the most consistently overlooked questions in leadership: not what your people are doing, but what energy they're bringing to it, and how you as a leader can create the conditions to unlock the energy needed to drive performance through everyday conversations.

This is worth an hour. Bring your team.

The Performance Lever Most Leaders Have Never Been Taught to Use

🗓️ May 26 | 1–2 PM ET | Hosted by Kris MacQueen

Register here: https://loom.ly/DCzWjm4

05/13/2026

When the values you carry into the office are the same ones you bring home, something changes. The work stops costing you energy the way it costs most leaders. Lindsay Mackintosh, AVP and Head of HR at TD Insurance, describes that not as a gift but as something she has worked toward — and it shows in how she leads.

Listen to the full conversation on the Podcast: https://loom.ly/e0eCGhs

05/13/2026

Two weeks out. If this is on your radar, now is the time to register.

The May 26 webinar brings together Brady Wilson and Norman Wolfe around a question most leadership development skips entirely: not how to get more from people, but how to create the conditions that unlocks the energy needed for people to perform at full capacity.

Those conditions come from the quality of everyday leadership conversations: the meetings, the feedback, the high-stakes moments that either generate energy in the room or quietly extract it. One hour on May 26 will give you a framework for seeing this clearly and a lever you can use immediately.

The Performance Lever Most Leaders Have Never Been Taught to Use

🗓️ May 26 | 1–2 PM ET | Hosted by Kris MacQueen

Register here: https://juiceinc.com/leadership-training-events-workshops/leadership-webinar-may2026/?&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=webinar260526