🚨 Culture eats strategy for breakfast — but who's feeding culture in your organisation?

In this episode of the Business Transformation Podcast, host Heath Gascoigne sits down with Larry Mendelberg—boardroom strategist, C-suite whisperer, and transformation consultant with 30+ years experience helping leadership teams drive sustainable change.

This episode is for anyone who's ever faced executive resistance, change fatigue, or stakeholder inertia while trying to transform an organisation that says the right things—but does the wrong ones.

Larry breaks down the psychology of leadership teams, the trap of top-down transformation, and the frameworks he uses to unblock decisions, align values, and create traction at the very top.

🔍 What You'll Learn in This Episode:

⏱️ Chapters & Timestamps:

00:00 – Intro: Meet Larry Mendelberg 02:46 – Why strategy fails when culture is misaligned 06:20 – Executive misalignment: What it is and how to fix it 10:45 – "That's not my job" – Breaking down silo mentality 14:30 – How to identify the real root cause of resistance 20:22 – Strategic facilitation at the board level 25:40 – Trust, transparency, and how to rebuild them fast 31:10 – Redesigning incentives to support transformation 35:05 – The difference between agreement vs. alignment 42:30 – What most orgs get wrong about the transformation journey 46:10 – Larry's closing advice to leaders driving change

🧠 Big Ideas from This Episode:

Culture doesn't start at the middle—it starts at the top

Most resistance is misdiagnosed (and mishandled)

Executive teams think they're aligned, but their behaviours tell another story

You can't "project manage" your way out of a leadership vacuum

Facilitation isn't fluff—it's strategy execution

🎧 Want more from Larry Mendelberg? 🔗 Website: https://www.larrymendelberg.com

📘 Book: [Insert book name if applicable] 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrymendelberg

📌 Also Mentioned: 🎯 HOBA® Business Transformation Framework → https://hoba.tech/what-is-hoba/hoba-and-agile/ 📈 Take the AI Readiness Scorecard → https://hoba.tech/scorecards/ai-transformation-readiness/ 🎓 Upcoming Webinar: AI for Business Transformation Professionals → https://hoba.tech/webinars/ai-for-transformation-professionals-webinar-apply-ai-with-hoba-framework/

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