Kylie Anne Neal
35 episodes listed below
Workplace culture tested against real behaviour.
Kan Talk Kulture with Kylie Anne Neal examines how company culture behaves under real pressure. Through founder interviews and practical HR conversations, it turns subjects like honesty, speed, performance reviews, and psychosocial risk into grounded workplace examples.
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Kan Talk Kulture with Kylie Anne Neal is a business and HR podcast focused on the everyday mechanics of company culture. Its central question is practical: what does a workplace really feel like when values meet pressure, growth, deadlines, and human limits? The show often begins with warm, guided framing, then lets a founder, CEO, or people consultant carry the substance. It is measured rather than flashy. That suits the subject. Episodes treat culture as something visible in decisions, meetings, role clarity, communication habits, and the amount of honesty people feel able to risk at work. One strand features conversations with business leaders such as Nicola Veltman, who discusses A Thousand Mile Travel, global regions, technology, automation, AI, and the need to enhance rather than replace human connection. Another strand is more advisory, with Georgina Walker joining for people and culture conversations about speed, psychosocial risk, performance reviews, small-business HR, and growth-stage strain. These episodes are strongest when they translate abstract workplace language into concrete tests. Can someone challenge a leader without consequence? Can a first-time manager get enough support before pressure spreads through the team? Can a fast business slow the right things without losing momentum? The show returns often to the difference between alignment and compliance. It also looks closely at how sustained urgency can create burnout, ambiguity, emotional whiplash, and avoidable people problems. The overall effect is calm and useful. It is not a debate show, and it is not a trends show. It is a guided workplace conversation for leaders who want better habits before culture becomes a repair job. Its best moments make HR feel less like administration and more like the operating system for trust, energy, and clear work.
Made for: Best for founders, CEOs, HR professionals, people managers, and growing-business leaders who want practical ways to build safer, clearer workplaces. It also suits team members curious about what healthy culture looks like in daily work.
What sets it apart: The show pairs founder-level culture stories with practical HR conversations, so values are repeatedly checked against work design, communication, pace, and trust. Its strength is translating soft culture language into observable workplace behaviour.
What if your company culture wasn’t just an HR buzzword but the secret weapon to scaling your business? Welcome to Kan Talk Kulture, the podcast that dives deep into how remarkable company cultures are intentionally built and how they can transform your team, your business, and your bottom line. Hosted by Kylie Anne Neal, founder of Kan Kulture and a passionate expert in people, culture, and leadership, this show is designed for business owners, CEOs, HR professionals, and anyone who believes that empowered people are the key to long-term success. Each episode features real conversations with inspiring CEOs, business le...
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A clear culture conversation about regional autonomy, technology, and keeping the human side in a changing travel business.
The episode looks at how a global travel business keeps central standards in place while leaving room for regional judgment. Nicola Veltman is at her best when she lays out that balance: regional general managers run their businesses, while the company globalizes where it should…
A stunt business where ego has to get out of the way.
Kylie Neal frames the conversation with Mehdi Mennad, founder of Showtime Entertainment Productions, as a useful look at what keeps a stunt-focused company moving: culture, trust, and speed. Mennad's account of building a team in a month makes the management challenge plain.
Practical HR conversations for changing workplaces.
Kylie Anne Neal opens with the 2003 UCLA ball-tossing MRI study, where being excluded by strangers activated the brain's pain-distress region, to argue that feeling left out is "an alarm." She cites Gallup figures (25% loneliness among fully remote workers versus 16% on-site) and KPMG's 2025 finding that 45% of employees feel isolated, which KPMG called a "friendship mirage." She distinguishes engagement, inclusion and belonging, and says team building is "a mechanism" that fails when used as a substitute for structural belonging.
Kylie-Ann Neal discusses the hidden tension of feeling unable to be fully honest at work, even in good companies, and explores the impact on authenticity and psychological safety.
Nicola Veltman talks company culture through travel, sitting down with Kylie-Ann Neal in Burley on the Gold Coast.
Kylie-Ann Neal and Georgina Walker discuss how speed in decision-making can undermine effective leadership and company culture, advocating for reflective leadership.
Kylie-Ann Neal and Georgina Walker discuss psychosocial risks that scale-up companies often overlook during rapid growth.
Karma Greig explains how Inline Innovations and Inline Nutralabs grew from six employees in 2005 to 120 full-time-equivalent staff plus 60 to 70 agency workers.
Georgina Walker discusses why small businesses should implement HR practices proactively rather than waiting for a crisis.
Kylie-Ann Neal and Georgina Walker discuss the challenges of maintaining work rhythms and performance as the new year begins, contrasting the post-holiday energy with pre-Christmas exhaustion.
Kylie-Ann Neal and Georgina Walker discuss how energy is the missing metric in performance reviews and introduce CanCulture's unique approach to performance conversations.
Kylie Neal welcomes Mehdi Mennad, founder of Showtime Entertainment Productions, and the conversation centers on a business built around world-class stunts that blend artistry, technology, and emotion.
Ben Grozier, founder of ClassCover, discusses building company culture and leading with empathy in the education technology space.
Kylie Anne Neal introduces her podcast about company culture and HR insights, with this episode featuring her being interviewed to share her background and the podcast's purpose.