The trust you can't build, with Greg Hoffman
About this episode
Greg Hoffman discusses the importance of intentional leadership and building trust within teams.
If you've ever walked into an organisation and immediately sensed something was off - a kind of low-level tension, a lack of direction, people moving fast but not together - you've experienced what Greg Hoffman would call a leadership gap. And if you've ever been part of a team where everything clicked, where people were trusted, empowered, and genuinely cared about the work, you've experienced what his framework is designed to create. Greg is a lawyer by training, an executive by career, and a leadership thinker by deep conviction. He's worked inside companies like General Electric and Whirlpool, led teams across legal, IT, cybersecurity, and HR - often without a technical background in any of them - and he's spent the last two years channelling everything he knows into a book and leadership development programme called Performance Through People . This conversation is a very practical one. Greg doesn't describe what good leadership looks like from a distance. He shows you the mechanism. Three areas we explored... ✳️ Culture doesn't build itself - at least not in a positive direction. If leaders don't intentionally build a common culture every day, confusion fills the space…
People in this episode
Host: Bob Gentle
Guest: Greg Hoffman
Topics covered
- leadership
- organizational culture
- team dynamics
- trust
- empowerment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: General Electric, Whirlpool
Books & works: Performance Through People
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