Why HR Skips the One Step That Could Fix Engagement with Kelly Price

Why HR Skips the One Step That Could Fix Engagement with Kelly Price

March 8, 2026 · 40 min · Season 4 · Episode 3

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Kelly Price discusses the importance of measuring work processes to improve employee engagement and align rewards with reality.

Recognition isn’t a perk; it’s a system signal. We sit down with Kelly Price, founder of ThriveHR, to unpack why so many companies chase “engagement” while skipping the first principle: measure how work truly happens, then align rewards, roles, and routines to that reality. Kelly blends hospitality, psychology, and hard‑won HR experience to show how culture improves when operations and people practices stop living in separate worlds. We start with the big blind spot: leaders try to fix feeli...

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